Making my startup weekly updates public

Originally posted 2025-07-14

Obligatory disclaimer: all opinions are mine and not of my employer

In my startup announcement I alluded to a private mailing list. That’s been going quite well and I find the weekly posting cadence to be a great way to stay accountable, take stock of my current situation, and plan out the next week of work. These weekly updates have also generated a decent amount of conversation and fortuitous connections.

I’ve decided to make these updates public, for several reasons:

I’ve gotten feedback that these weekly updates are interesting and valuable (and therefore worth lowering my usual bar of quality to push out a larger volume of writing).
Lots of folks who are not friends or family have asked to join the mailing list.
I thought I would end up posting a lot of things to a friends and family audience that I wouldn’t otherwise post to the internet, but actually that hasn’t been the case at all.
I would like to turn up the “fortuitous encounters” dial to see what happens.
I’d promised to condense the weekly updates into public monthly updates, and found trying to summarize them an uninteresting use of time.

You can find these startup updates under the Cartesian Tutor tag, backdated to their original private posting dates.