What are the recommended, non-tech, non-news newsletters? Other than NextDraft, of course. I have realised the newsletters I subscribe to tend to get repetitive. I do not want to know of the thoughts on same tech/non-tech US news 🙂
@amit I appreciate Charlie Loyd’s newsletter: tinyletter.com/vruba/. He writes about maps, climate, and lots of interesting things. He publishes less regularly than he did a couple of years ago, but there is a lot of good stuff in his archive.
@alans Nice, thank you Alan. I had not heard about the newsletter - I just browsed through the archive, they do look interesting 👍
@amit Craig Mod's new Ridgeline, Warren Ellis' Orbital Operations, and Robin Sloan's Year of the Meteor are my current favorites. Also notable, Patrick Tanguay's Sentiers, Kai Branch's Dense Discovery, and Electric Eelfrom MCD x FSG publishing.
@vasta Ah, that's a great set of recommendations. I am already following Austin Kleon's newsletter. All others are new to me. And talking about really diverse interests. Thank you Sameer! 🙂
@kordumb Thank you Kevin. All these are new to me. I heard about Dense Discovery recently, I guess via @patrickrhone. But everything else I never did. I really like the list 👍🙂
On the topic of recommended newsletters, I know a lot of people I interact with on micro.blog also publish their own newsletters. I am keen to know about and subscribe to them. They always come across during discussions, but I miss to note them then. I would like to fix that.
@amit My newsletter reads kind of like a personal letter/journal, with some links and resources. I’m just getting started and figuring it out as I go.
@amit I have a question about this too...how do you all (who run a newsletter) differentiate between your blog and your newsletter? How do you decide what goes into the blog and what you save up to write about in the letter? I’m keen as hell to start one but I’m stumped by this seemingly simple block 🤔
@herself Yeah, am curious about the same. My intention behind the weekly digest was very much to explore if I can draft weekly newsletter-like posts. But it indeed is tricky to decide. Any inputs welcome.
Thank you all for the wonderful recommendations for newsletters - the community here never disappoints. As I had noted earlier, I did capture all the recommendations from this discussion at Micro.threads so that it can be referenced in future too.
@herself Some people send the newsletter out before posting to the web. I more or less duplicate. Mine is all links, and I am thinking of saving my view of them for the newsletter.
@herself Not quite. It is related to my podcast. So that goes out every two weeks. I'm scanning all sorts of places for interesting stories every day. Some of those I accumulate and send out as a newsletter in between podcast episode weeks. So, here it is on site and almost identical content goes out via email. I'm thinking of just posting the bare links on site and giving slightly more context via email.
I'd be interested to learn what you think of that idea.
@vasta I like that idea! So you can stay on-topic that way, never getting to the point where you can’t decide where to put something.
@jeremycherfas that’s a nice point of distinction, I think. The newsletter can be more “newsy.” :) As an aside, your podcast looks really cool! Will have a listen today.