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Before we dive in, a quick but important u= pdate about your Aether access:

There's a required course that you need= to complete to unlock the project. We originally set a February 11th deadl= ine, but we're extending it one final time: you have until Sunday, Februa= ry 15th at 11:59PM PST to complete it.

If you haven't taken it yet,= this is your last chance =E2=80=94 after the 15th, if you haven=E2=80=99t = completed the course, you=E2=80=99ll lose access to Aether.

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We want you here= , and the work is ramping up. But this step is mandatory if you want to kee= p going.

Okay, now back to your regularly scheduled newsletter. =

Hey, it's El= iana.

I've been writing Inside Outlier for six months. A few weeks ag= o, I started writing each edition as a letter to someone real in my life: m= y mom, my friend Mara, my friend Claire who "wrote back" last week. (If you= missed them, you can catch up here.) The responses you sent told me something I wouldn't = have learned any other way: you care enough to hit reply, whether it's to s= ay "this made my day" or "please never do this again" (or=E2=80=A6 other th= ings that I can=E2=80=99t repeat here). 

When I created this new= sletter, the plan was platform updates and project announcements. Professio= nal. Informational. Bland. Instead, you wrote back. You told me when someth= ing landed and when something missed. You told me the pen pal thing was con= fusing. You told me Edition 26 looked like spam. You told me you wanted les= s fluff, and in the same week, someone else said the fluff was their favori= te part. 

Here's what I've learned from listening. The edition w= here I told my mom about Natalie's snake that went missing for a year? High= est open rate we've ever had. More than a thousand of you submitted songs t= o the community playlist. Every time I tried something person= al or experimental, you showed up for it. Even the people who hated it show= ed up, because they cared enough to say so.

I read the replies from p= eople who are frustrated =E2=80=94 with onboarding, with courses, with wait= ing. I don't have a fix. But when you write to this inbox, a real person re= ads it. That person is me, usually at a coffee shop, with my dog on my lap = and the community playlist in my headphones.

You spend your days teac= hing AI to understand tone, nuance, context. And most of you do it alone. I= started writing like a person instead of a brand because that's what this = work deserves. The thing that connects people isn't a perfect newsletter. I= t's knowing someone's on the other side.

Here's my ask: Hit reply.<= /strong> Tell me who you are, what you want more of, what you never want to see ag= ain. Tell me about your pets. One sentence or a novel, I read every single = reply.

Talk soon,

Eliana

P.S. If you haven't tried Playground yet, ask a model to explain your job to a five-yea= r-old. Mine said "she writes emails to a lot of people and hopes they write= back." It wasn't wrong.

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