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Working Like Every Day is Vacation Day

This is the introduction to this week's newsletter, which I figured I might just as well post here on the blog.

This whole business of making every day feel like a vacation continues to work like gangbusters for me. I'm knocking out features left and right, and enjoying every moment of it. It doesn't feel like work at all.

Despite a slew of new features this week, I've also found time to lay the groundworks for some future features (mainly Segmentation and Automation). It made me think about f…

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Get Simplero in Your Language

Simplero has the ability to translate all the pages and emails that your customers are going to see into their native language.

Since I speak both Danish and English fluently, those are the two languages we have supported so far. But now we have opened it up for anyone to help translate Simplero into their local language.

People are already working on translating it into Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, and German, and we're always open to more translators. So if it's something that has eno…

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Goodbye Office

For most of my life, I've been self-employed, and working from home. Even during the short periods when I've been employed by an outside company, I've rarely gone to an office.

But that doesn't stop me from trying. Many times, I've been sucked in by the lure of having a separate space for work and for non-work, of going to a place with other people. But each and every time, I end up concluding it's not for me.

Recently I read this post by my friend Lauren Fritsch, and it just hit it home for m…

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Life hacking experiments: Fasting

I like to experiment with different "life hacks". From changing my name based in numerology, to spending a year in India practicing yoga daily at 4am, to going vegetarian for 5 months, to going without alcohol for 5 months, to blood tests, DNA tests, supplements, detoxing, energy healing, and much much more.

These days, I'm trying out something new: Fasting. I've done two days of fasting before, at the tail end of a 3-week detox cleanse. It was interesting to do the two days, but I haven't gone…

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