Oops! I need to apologize…

Joshua Fields Millburn makes an apology for a recent mistake. Download our free resources and sign up for The Minimalists' newsletter at TheMinimalists.com https://www.theminimalists.com.

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• 0:00Joshua Fields Millburn?

  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 subscribe 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,

• 0:43Joshua Fields Millburn?

  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

• 1:24Joshua Fields Millburn?

  mistake. I know how much you trust the minimalist, and I understand that when you ask for something, but you don't receive it, that's just a poor experience. And it's especially unfortunate, because recently, this year, I've placed great effort and emphasis into adding a ton of value in our weekly newsletter. Every week, I spend more than a dozen hours working on a new essay for the simple newsletter, which comes out every Monday with no spam, no junk, no noise, of course, no advertisements. I just want to start your week off with a dose of simplicity.

• 2:07Joshua Fields Millburn?

  Unfortunately, if you subscribe between February 8th and February 16th, your info was not retained. Again, I apologize. Thankfully, the issue has been fixed. So if you do want to subscribe to the simple newsletter, or if you'd like to download any of our free resources, like the minimalist rulebook, or the 30-day minimalism game calendar, or TK's emotional clutter ebook, or our values worksheet, or the new ebook I just released, which is called Very Very Simple: 12 Tools for a Simpler Life, you still can. You can just head on over to theminimalists.com to subscribe to the email newsletter for free,

• 2:51Joshua Fields Millburn?

  or hit the resources page over there and download any of the free resources that might seem compelling to you. As always, thank you so much for your listenership and thanks for understanding. Much love, yo.