Yesterday I sent you the ten emails you opened most this year...a nice, round, ten-years-on-this-list kind of email.

But a list doesn't turn ten overnight, and neither did any of this. So here's the longer cut: the emails that landed hardest across the last few years, not just this one.

Read it top to bottom and you can watch the whole thing change in real time from writing online to building.

2024: the year AI stopped being a toy

• How I Write With AI
• I Abandoned My 6-Figure SEO Business for a Newsletter
• BIG Claude AI update for creators

2025 — going all-in

• Why your "insatiably curious mind" keeps sabotaging your projects
• McDonald's AI ad fail
• I've sent 1,305 newsletters (here's what actually works)

2026 — building in public

• How I organize a dozen coding projects (without losing my mind)
• How to write perfect prompts (The COSTAR Framework)
• I spent $697 on Claude Code last month. Here's what I learned.

If you only read three, make it the top of each year. That's the whole arc in nine emails.

Thanks for reading this long. Onto the next one.

Bryan

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