quick emergency podcast. Hey, it's JFM. I need to make a small apology. I'm recording this on my phone

because I wanted to get this out to you as soon as possible, so please forgive the audio quality.

Okay, so between February 8th and February 16th of this year, 26, if you attempted to download any of the minimalist free resources, or if you subscribe to our simple newsletter, you didn't get what you asked for.

It turns out there was a technical error on the back end so that for about eight days,

anyone who visited the minimalists.com or minimalmaxims.com or how to write better.org,

your email address just disappeared into the ether.

Now, we have thousands of people who download these

free resources and subscribe to our newsletter each week, so you can see why this is a big deal.

Now, please don't worry. No other parties have access to your information. I would never allow

that to happen. And to be clear, nothing bad

happened here, except you didn't get what you asked for if you asked for one of these free resources.

And I just wanted to acknowledge that and apologize for this little mistake. I know how much

you trust the minimalist and I understand that

when you ask for something but you don't receive it, that's just a poor experience. And it's

especially unfortunate because recently this year, I've placed great effort and emphasis into adding

a ton of value in our weekly newsletter. Every week, I spend

more than a dozen hours working on a new essay for the simple newsletter, which comes out every Monday

with no spam, no junk, no noise, of course, no advertisements. I just want to

start your week off with a dose of simplicity. Unfortunately, if you subscribe between February 8th and

February 16th, your info was not retained. Again, I apologize. Thankfully, the issue has been fixed. So if you do want

to subscribe to the simple newsletter, or if you'd like to download any of our free resources,

like the minimalist rule book or the 30-day minimalism game calendar, or TK's emotional clutter e-book, or our values worksheet,

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