# Pop-up newsletters are time-bound commitments to publish [[Craig Mod]], whose membership program I've written about before (see [[Notes on Craigmod's Running a Successful Membership Subscription Program]] and [[Notes on Memberships Work]]), uses pop-up newsletters to focus his output for a specific period of time and provide a bit of accountability. This strategy could be effective for me as well, since I don't do particularly well with consistent, long-term daily habits, but tend to work best in sprints towards a deadline. Short bursts, punctuated by periods of inactivity, rest, and change. I should try this out with my own research, specifically bursts around specific deliverables or [[Provocations]] that I want to ship. This aligns with [[Work in serial, not in parallel]].