Archive • An Email Experiment • Buttondown

March 17, 2024

Howdy friend 👋🏼! Here's some overdue updates that I thought I would send in February! Anticipation list for Feb/March 📚 🎹 I ordered Andrew Huang's new book...

Paper airplanes ✈️ and how Shazaam works!

January 29, 2024

Howdy, howdy! I love talking about "app ideas". Or just ideas. It's like a fun game for me. I even enjoy it when non-technical folks tell me about an idea...

🥶 Happy New Year! 😅

January 18, 2024

Happy New Year! Some quick updates based on the last email: my current “deep dive” interest is absorbing a lot of content to be up to date on digital...

👋🏼 This is Tommy!

December 15, 2023

I read once that the open rate for emails with “this” in the subject line is always super high. So there you go! Hope you’re well! The girl It’s been so...

Well, hello there!

September 8, 2021

Writing regularly sounded easy for a while. I genuinely thought I'd start the craziest and best Dad blog of all time once we had a kid. Then she got here....

🎉🎉🎉 Some fun things from the internet! [Episode 12]

January 27, 2021

Hello, friend! I'm keeping it light again this time! Here's just a few fun things from the internet: Jon Batiste performing What a Wonderful World. If you...

To: You, From: Tommy (December 13th 2020 version)

December 13, 2020

Hello friend! There’s so much craziness in tech, but I’d rather add value than just provide links… so I think I’m skipping the tech news this week? 🤷🏻‍♂️...

😱 Tommy’s back!

September 29, 2020

Welcome back friend! Remember when we used to write (almost) weekly? Whew! How the world has changed since March! Elizabeth is about to turn ONE YEAR OLD! I...

👋🏽 Episode 9: Tommy George's email experiment -- the newest one ever!

March 15, 2020

Howdy, friend! How is it March 15th already? This feels like the fastest year yet. 🐎 Elizabeth is 5 months old! When showing pictures to folks, I can only...

✉️ 👋 THIS is Episode #7 of Tommy George's Email Experiment! THIS!

February 18, 2020

Howdy, friend! I hope you're doing so well! ("swell"!?) I read once that email engagement rates go up if you use the word "this" in the subject line. So I...

👋🏽 Tommy George’s Email Experiment: The one without scary tech news. This one has videos!

February 2, 2020

Heelllloooooo friend! It’s February! And by the time you’re reading this, “the big game” has already happened! I hope your favorite team won. ;) Speaking of...

Tommy George's Email Experiment - Episode 05: The one where we skipped a week.

January 18, 2020

Helloooooo, friend! I hope you're doing great this weekend! FIRST, I want to say a huge thanks for the replies to the last email. And for the other...

🤑💬👶🏽 Budgets, Words, Daycare, oh my! Tommy George's Email Experiment, Episode 04 4️⃣

January 7, 2020

Hello, friend! Happy New Year! How were your holidays? We had a great break from Christmas to New Years Day, and it's probably best described as being "very...

Tommy George Email Experiment - Episode 03: Okay, less gloom!

December 29, 2019

Greetings! Hope your Christmas was good! Rather than completely take a break from these emails over the holidays, I’m just trying to keep some momentum and...

Tommy George Email Experiment / Episode 2

December 25, 2019

Episode 2: Christmas week! Merry Christmas! I hope your week has been great! It seems like everyone acknowledges -- and I will, too -- that this time of year...

Episode 1

December 16, 2019

Hello! I hope you're doing well! Thanks for checking out my little Email Experiment! "Content" ideas are all over the place at the moment, and I'm hoping...

Episode 0

December 13, 2019

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