Newsletter

One essay, only when there's one worth your time. No hot takes, no daily churn — the opposite of the attention economy it often writes about.

The newsletter follows a simple rule that most don't: it arrives only when there's a real essay to send. No filler to stay ‘top of mind,’ no reactive hot takes on the outrage of the week. Just a considered piece, occasionally, for people who'd rather read one good thing than skim ten forgettable ones. It's a small, deliberate bit of friction in a medium built to remove all of it — the same friction discussed, at greater length, in On attention and On technology and society.

What arrives

• New essays in full, delivered to read at leisure;
• The occasional shorter note when something genuinely warrants it;
• Nothing else — deliberately.

Why the low frequency is the point

A publishing schedule built around engagement metrics would send far more often than this one does — frequency is one of the simplest levers for holding attention, and the newsletter deliberately doesn't pull it. The infrequency isn't a limitation to apologize for; it's a small, practical demonstration of the argument made across these essays: that most systems optimizing for your attention would benefit from sending less, and choose not to.

Meanwhile, the essays are all here to read, organized by theme starting from the themes page, or answered briefly on the FAQ.