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🎤 The SWIPES Email (Friday, February 20th, 2026)

Friday, February 20th, 2026 ​​​​​​ Sponsor: Get a free year of ​Framer​ for early-stage founders. Use ​Kit​ for sending emails...

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Feb 19, 2026
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Daily Creatine Beats Timing Every Time

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Feb 19, 2026
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Edward Sturm: Stop Publishing New Posts. Optimize Ranking Keywords

Before you hammer out another blog post, stare at that orange Average Position box in Google Search Console. That little...

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Feb 19, 2026
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Feb 19, 2026
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Kevin O'Leary: Make CAC Profitable Before You Scale Ads

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Feb 18, 2026
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Feb 18, 2026
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David Protein Bars: Great headline + Grabbing Image

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Ads/Copywriting/Headlines
Feb 18, 2026
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Elon Musk: Autonomous Businesses Win: Scale Faster, Cost Less

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Feb 18, 2026
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Andrew Miklas: Make AI Your Product Strategist, Not Coder

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Feb 18, 2026
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Screens are bad, Books are good

This sketch nails what great copy does. The phone sits there, flat and lifeless. The book, though, throws a crazy...

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Feb 17, 2026
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Cause and Effect with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order consequences

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Feb 17, 2026
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Neville's Work Less, Earn More Playbook

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Copywriting/Kit/Emails
Feb 17, 2026
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Turn Your Behance Into a Client Magnet

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Ads/Copywriting/Images
Feb 17, 2026
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Burj Khalifa Air Conditioning Ad

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Feb 17, 2026
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Authority ads for hiring pre-training HVAC technicians

This hero image should sit at the top of your Hire Pre-Trained HVAC Techs Today page. One confident technician in...

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Feb 16, 2026
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Postcards That Book HVAC Maintenance Appointments

This postcard is built to book HVAC maintenance appointments, not win design awards. Big family photo screams comfort, giant headline...

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Feb 16, 2026
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Gandy Air Conditioning Ad

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Feb 16, 2026
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Trade Burnt Pots for Better Coffee

This image does all the selling before you even smell the coffee. On the left: a shiny but generic drip...

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Feb 15, 2026
LEGO and Crocs just dropped a product that looks like a fake render, but it’s real.

The brick-shaped clog is pure internet bait, made to get shared, argued over, and posted in public like a flex. It is a collab that turns nostalgia into a loud collectible and does the marketing job for them before you even reach the checkout.
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Make A Product That Does Your Marketing

Those red LEGO brick clogs do not look real. They look like a Photoshop joke that somehow escaped the screen....

Ads/Instagram/Copywriting
Feb 15, 2026
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Aaron Epstein: Make Your Agency a High Margin Software Business

In the reel, a solo speaker in a plain black shirt sits at a simple wooden table against a bold,...

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Feb 15, 2026
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Make Advisors Show Up With One Weekly Update

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Feb 14, 2026
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Use Real-Life Tension To Stop Scrolling

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Feb 14, 2026
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Charlie Munger Choose One Idea, Execute Relentlessly

That screenshot says it all: a wall of tiny dots slowly disappearing until only two are left at the finish...

Instagram/Motivation/Advice
Feb 14, 2026
“Music when we were growing up was the best. Everything these days is so terrible.”

Turns out across every single generation, quality of music peaks at age 17 and you begin to start disliking music made after you’re 35.

Callum Davies’ study, “The power of nostalgia: Age and preference for popular music,” reveals that the music we grow up with sticks with us. As we age, those tunes from our youth evoke strong nostalgic feelings, making us prefer them over today’s hits. The songs of our past really do have lasting power!

Davies’ research delves into the relationship between nostalgia and musical preferences over a person’s lifespan. The research highlights that as people grow older, they tend to have a strong preference for the music that was popular during their youth. 

This phenomenon is attributed to the deep emotional connections and memories associated with these songs, which often correspond to significant and formative periods in one’s life, such as adolescence and early adulthood.

Davies’ study finds that these nostalgic feelings are powerful drivers of musical preference, often surpassing the appeal of contemporary music. The research suggests that the emotional resonance of these early musical experiences creates a lasting impact, shaping an individual’s taste in music well into their later years. This enduring attachment to the music of one’s youth underscores the broader influence of nostalgia on personal identity and emotional well-being.

The findings also have implications for various industries, including marketing, media, and entertainment, as they highlight the potential for leveraging nostalgia in reaching and engaging older audiences. By understanding the power of nostalgic music, these sectors can create more effective strategies to connect with their target demographics.

Source: “The power of nostalgia: Age and preference for popular music” by Callum Davies, Bill Pa Driesener, Zac Anesbury, Song Yang and Johan Bruwer

Target The Songs People Loved At 17

That chart basically screams one thing: if you want people to feel something, play the songs they loved at 17....

Ads/Instagram/Data
Feb 13, 2026

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