Oops! I need to apologize…
2/18/20263 min
Joshua Fields Millburn makes an apology for a recent mistake.
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First 90 secondsJoshua Fields Millburn· Host0:00
Quick emergency podcast. Hey, it's JFM. I need to make a small apology. I'm recording this on my phone because I wanted to get this out to you as soon as possible, so please forgive the audio quality. Okay, so between February 8th and February 16th of this year, 2026, if you attempted to download any of the minimalist free resources, or if you subscribed to our simple newsletter, you didn't get what you asked for. It turns out there was a technical error on the back end so that for about eight days, anyone who visited theminimalists.com or minimalmaxims.com or howtowritebetter.org, your email address just disappeared into the ether. Now, we have thousands of people who download these free resources and subscribe to our newsletter each week, so you can see why this is a big deal. Now, please don't worry. No other parties have access to your information. I would never allow that to happen. And to be clear, nothing bad happened here, except you didn't get what you asked for if you asked for one of these free resources. And I just wanted to acknowledge that and apologize for this little mistake. I, I know how much you trust The Minimalist, and I understand that when you ask for something but