🍣 36 things i'm still learning at 36


Hey friend – Rob here.

This is the last newsletter of the year, and goodness me what a year it's been. I was made redundant. I started a business. I lost my mother. I had my best year ever in terms of cash and confidence building. Ebbs and flows, eh? I hope you have a chance to take a break, genuinely turn off those notifications, and sleep in if you feel like it.

I bring below 3x articles i wrote recently, and an event we're running in January.

See you in 2025, and thanks for supporting Salmon Theory.

Keep swimming,

Rob

🧠 Thinking

36 things i’m still learning at 36

Everyone talks about lessons learned, here's a bunch of helpful doubts instead.

Is it an age thing, or a cohort thing?

Most audience research suffers from this problem, and we're working a bit blind as a result.

How to think about social effectiveness

Some expanded thoughts on social effectiveness, with 3 examples of when it's done right.

📅 Events

How to stop over-cooking your social strategy (#2)

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Rob Estreitinho

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