Imagine getting a feed of some of the best sentences published on the web. And with each sentence, a link to an essay, a social post, a reader-submitted gem I otherwise won’t encounter on my own curated feeds.
That feed is a newsletter called Perfect Sentences. Reading through each edition curbs my doomscrolling tendencies. I have it pinned on my browser—a gentle nudge toward a better alternative. Goodbye clickbait headlines. All good prose.
“Shelfie” playfully combines “selfie” and “shelf,” as in a collection of books on a shelf. It shows you what's there in a way an algorithm or a "best of the best" list never will. Now here's a newsletter entirely made up of them.
Root of All isn’t your typical personal finance column. Written by veteran financial writer Jacob Schroeder, it starts from a provocative thesis—that money is the root of all evil, happiness, servitude, and freedom—and draws on psychology, art, and philosophy to explore the lives we build with it.
Genius Loci is a monthly newsletter where Jeremy reflects on his creative life, including the nitty-gritty of how he builds it with a newborn at home. He also shares nourishing bits of what to see, read, and explore around topics he cares about: writing, travel, and photography.
A beautiful, well-kept garden. That’s what I think of Willa’s newsletter, Dark Properties. Here's how the editor-gardener sums up her project: "a future-focused newsletter connecting personal and planetary ecologies."
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