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Making tough decisions

Making tough decisions

Which posts should be for paying subscribers only? How often should I publish for them? And other things more applicable to your own life.

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Lex Friedman
Jan 11, 2023
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Obviously I recently launched paid subscription support. Good ol’ Lextra Credit.

And now I’m faced with the constant decision: What’s paid, and what’s free? This is the torture of every freemium business, every newspaper website, and on and on. you want to share your good stuff. But you also want to reward paying subscribers. It’s tricky.

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All of us have to make this subjective decisions all the time. There are recipes and decision flows you can use to decide which choice makes sense when, but it mostly comes down to gut.

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