I like that approach of "not clicking any ads".

That said it could still land a message/spark interest.

And perhaps if it is worth investing your time in, you'll hear about it again, hopefully from a source you trust.

>could still land a message/spark interest.

It could. Smithsonian's newsletter often has ads from 1440 in it, and I've been considering looking into them more, but mostly because they say they're free. If it was paid, I'd probably stop looking into it, or look to see if the local library subscribes to it or has it (as I often do with books). So, from the advertiser's perspective, I'm not very helpful - the best you'd get is increased library circulation.

Even like a pragmatic programmer, casidoo, and stuff like that?

Oh, sorry I meant those weekly developer newsletters and an ad in there.

Reading it reminded me of a book "Writing without bullshit" which adds a few more concepts to what op shared.

Frontloading information is my favorite, where instead of building to the core conclusion you start with it and then expand.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28448362-writing-without...

I didn't write the article, I just found it recently and thought it was interesting.

I guess you never really know, but you know what you wrote and may have addressed exactly what the comment is about.

https://www.developermarkepear.com/ i write about marketing to devs, sharing learnings from my journey as a devtool startup marketer.

Also you have companies that "game the system" by just creating great stuff that bring value to this community. Look at Tailscale for example.

You can just do marketing things that are perfectly aligned with the community.

That is a win win imho.

plug: If interested I went into how tailscale does it https://www.developermarkepear.com/blog/developer-marketing-...

I think they called this channel "engineering as marketing" in the book Traction from Weinberg.

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