Personal essays from Minneapolis writer Nat Bennett on creative habits, writing a novel, and balancing self-employment, software work and creative projects. Issues also include photography and reflections on finding energy and discipline for making things.
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A weekly newsletter from the author of Steal Like an Artist, mixing curated lists of links and quotations with typewriter interviews of artists and writers conducted by mail. Readers get creative inspiration, book and art recommendations, and a personal view of a working creative life.
Murphy Trueman writes essays on design systems, governance and organisational practice, including permissions for AI agents, the trap of copied patterns in measurement, and writing style in an era of AI-suspicion. The posts combine personal experience with concrete examples, such as wrapper components that inflate adoption metrics.
Author Cheryl Strayed shares personal essays on grief, loss, running and writing, along with occasional author interviews in her 'Tells Us' series. Readers get intimate, candid first-person reflection and literary conversation about craft.
Personal essays from a travel writer reflecting on Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, notebooks, stationery and the act of writing. Each issue weaves literary references with reflective, first-person observation.
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