Ask what amount the policy is written for. Some owner's policies are written at purchase price with no inflation provision and others have an escalation feature. Twenty years from now that difference is effectively the whole policy.
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Mine grew slower and churned far less. 14 months, 1,900 subscribers, unsubscribe rate under 0.4% per send. The weekly one I ran before that grew faster and shed people just as fast, and I resented it by month three. Growth you can sustain beats growth you abandon.
Changelog first, and let the newsletter be a byproduct rather than a second job.
The mechanic that worked for me: write the changelog entry as part of shipping, one paragraph, in the PR description, and have it end up on the public page. Once a month, take the four or five entries, add two paragraphs of context at the top about what you are trying to do and what did not work, and send that as the email. The writing was already done - the only new work is the framing.
Weekly newsletters die because 3 hours a week is 3 hours in a good week and 20 minutes in a bad one, and one missed week turns into three. Monthly survives a bad month.
Whichever you pick, put the p95 in a check that pages you rather than in a contract nobody measures. "p95 under 300ms measured at the client" and "p95 under 300ms measured in my dashboard" are different numbers and the gap is where the argument with the customer happens in month four.
I raced my first in a plated shoe with no long runs in it and got a hot spot at 28 km that turned into a limp for the last hour. Whatever you race in, put at least two long runs through it first. That rule is worth more than the plate is.
Cheapest experiment in this entire room: a length of pipe insulation or a folded towel taped along the desk edge. Costs nothing, and within three days you'll know whether the edge was the problem.
Does that hold for the third steep too, or does it need to go back up?
Pouring completely dry is definitely not something I do. There is always a bit left.
Single-article limit. Adding that to the list of things I now have to read.
Keep the water genuinely boiling for shou. If your kettle has drifted down to 90 by the fourth pour, that alone explains the drop off.
Add a cheap kitchen scale to that budget before you add anything else. It changes results more than any vessel will.