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A modest guide to productivity

“Stay on paper as long as possible; sketch and write things out long-hand, possibly even emails.” Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter. This issue is from the designer Frank Chimero's blog

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Less homework! More fun!

“A word of advice for publishing a newsletter, blog post, novel, or literally anything: keep it short and keep it sweet.” Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter. This issue is from Robin Rendle

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15 lessons from 30+ years in newsletters

“Subject lines don’t matter anywhere near as much as your sent-from line.” Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter. This issue features an excerpt from CJ Chilvers new book, Principles for Newsletters, via

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Toward a unified taxonomy of text-based social media use

“The most important thing to know about social media is this: Most people don’t post.” Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter. This issue features an analysis (of Threads, mostly) by Elizabeth Lopatto

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A simple antidote to a corporatized, unfeeling, profit-maximizing world

“Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.” Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter. This issue features evergreen advice from Seth Godin.

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17 non-negotiable things your email newsletter needs right now

12. ALWAYS WRITE BACK. Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter.

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How Austin Kleon assembles his weekly newsletter

"I don’t send out a list of 10 things I think my readers would find interesting. I send out a list of 10 things I find interesting that I think my readers would find interesting, too." Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources

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Just how personal is an email newsletter?

“Email is kind of like a living room. It’s a very personal space. You let in your friends, the coworkers you like, and a couple of brands you really trust — like this one.” - from a Nieman Lab profile of Dan Oshinsky shortly after he became the New Yorker&

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Little lessons from writing newsletters

Eight writers on how their writing skills evolved by writing a newsletter (via Catapult). Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich.

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Creating a fully customised, weekly newsletter

Dense Discovery provides an updated summary of all the tools they use and how they connect them to create their weekly newsletter, including their membership and sponsorship programs. Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich.