The 📝The Journey To Onewelcome email was sent to friends to establish consent around the sending of my weekly email. In this email, copied below, I shared insights and intentions with a clear ask.
Subject: Journey to One
Hey {FIRST_NAME}
In 2006, 📝Maria Popova began a 📝Weekly Email to Seven Friends. Only later did it move online and become the 📝The Marginalian blog which, today, has millions of dedicated readers. It has become a community united by a common purpose; a "search for truth, beauty, and meaning."
📝Connect the Dots looking back, I see that the purpose of my search wasn't for truth or beauty or meaning... I sought 📝resonance. More than anything, I desired to feel understood.
From this, came 📝Contextual Augmentation; this emoji-laden style of emailing which enables you to sync quickly at a high level and 📝Choose Your Own Adventure into a deeper dialogue. The more I've explored this 📝Nonlinear Communication, the more it seems many things become One.
To find resonance, I am creating resonance. Inspired by Popova, I am curating a weekly email to friends called 📝The Journey To One. You are, for me, a tuning fork and I'd love to include you.
My intent is to showcase and support those who 📝Build cool shit and change the world. You can be as engaged as you're able, but I would be touched if you had me in your inbox each week.
May I include you?