Building something new always brings the same doubt: will anyone care? I have spent months thinking about the future of my newsletter and, to be honest, the idea of launching a paid version is intimidating.

There is a constant fear that, after the effort of setting up the fiscal and administrative side, the response will be silence. Yet, I have learned that this uncertainty is an inherent part of any serious engineering project. If there is no risk of failure, you are probably not building anything worth having.

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