The Pragmatic Engineer

“Your newsletter is the number one technology newsletter on Substack, called the Pragmatic Engineer, by the way.”

“I had a spreadsheet that I maintained for the first year of the publication where I listed for every article, how much did my annual revenue go up a week later? So kind of tracking, like, what was the impact? And the crazy thing was that you know, when I wrote…”

“From what we're doing, It's really tied to us. So however much or little my newsletter will make, you know, it'll have a value, let's say four or five times the annual revenue as a business, but you cannot really sell it like that and you cannot really walk aw…”

“Now I am making more in compensation that I made at Uber and The difference is that now my compensation, well, my earnings are keep going up as long as the newsletter is growing.”

“I had the sneaky idea. Of, hey, what if I wrote this book where I kind of write some posts that will be part of the book, and then the book will just kind of come together partially. And I, I've kind of been doing that. I haven't been telling people, but some …”

“One of my goals for the next few years is to not spend 50 hours a week on a newsletter, which I'm doing right now, but spend 20.”

“I announced my newsletter. I told people I'm gonna go full-time on this. I had maybe 10,000 Twitter followers and I don't know, like maybe a thousand on LinkedIn or something like that. And people started signing up the next day. I had a hundred subscribers in…”

“Well, just today I checked and it said 189,000 Subscribers. It's the past, I think the past 90 days has been growing with 80,000 subscribers. So it's just, it's almost a thousand people per day”