A Newsletter about newsletters

Whenever I hear this I’m like…

Newsletters are how I find and consume most of my content these days. They are my love language.

But I subscribe to so many…

After answering this question a few times, I figured I’d write down my answer.

Here’s a list of newsletters I currently subscribe to. If you’d like to suggest one or pitch your own, reply to this email or ping me on Twitter. I unsubscribe liberally and am always on the hunt for new stuff to keep my subscriptions fresh!

Product and Leadership

• Stay Sassy: Articles about scaling product & engineering teams.

• Proof of Concept: Thoughts on design craft and leadership from David Hoang

• Design Dept: Thoughts on design leadership and management from Mia Blume

• Product Hunt: A roundup of new products and tools to investigate and keep up with

• Leading Sapiens: Thoughts on leading humans from Sheril Mathews

• Elezea: Thoughts and links on product management, software development, and leadership from Rian van der Merwe

• Lenny’s Newsletter: A weekly advice column about building product, growth, and your career

Design and Code

• Growth Design: Bit-sized nuggets on how design choices can subtly drive our behavior

• Web Design Weekly: A roundup of web design news from around the web

• CSS Weekly: A roundup of CSS news from around the web

• Design Systems News: A roundup of design system news from around the web

• Figmalion: A roundup of Figma news from around the web

• Naomi West: Articles and ideas from the email marketing world

• Megan Boshuyzen: A semi-regular newsletter about email development and marketing

• Jason Rodriguez: A newsletter about email design, marketing, music, and more

• Lee Munroe: Thoughts on design, product leadership, web development, email & messaging, and more

• Really Good Emails: A weekly collections of email design inspiration and articles about email design

• Email Weekly: Email industry news, tricks, and best practices from the folks at Action Rocket

• The Proxy: New about email and newsletters from folks working on the future of email.

Misc

• Dense Discovery: An unmissable weekly collection of carefully curated links from Kai Branch. No buzzwords, hype or FOMO.

• Fix the News: Feel-good news stories about society, culture, and the planet

• Concepts of Finance: Explaining financial and investing concepts in plain English

• Stay Invested: Thoughts on choosing investments that feel comfortable

• The Daily Upside: News and analysis on finance, economics, and investing

• Semafor Tech: Reporting on technology, startups, AI, regulation Big Tech companies

• Semafor Net Zero: Reporting on climate, the environment, renewable energy including wind, solar, and hydropower, and green jobs

• Terra.do: News about and ways to start working in climate change solutions

• The Sample: A daily newsletter about a random topic (because it’s good to read things outside our bubble)

🧶 Stray Links

Decarbonize Your Life suggests ways to live a normal life while also making progress in the fight against climate change

Two great Dive Club podcasts: Airbnb’s Ryan Scott on gaining influence as an IC designer, and Vercel’s Mariana Castilho working in working in Figma (good) vs. code (better).

EmailCamp 2024 wrapped up and all the sessions are available free online.

Amazon killed remote work. Is RTO the new normal? (Narrator) No it is not.

Obvious best practices too many newsletters still don’t do. I am guilty of so many of these.

2Advanced is back. One of the most influential websites of the early 2000s is back, this time rebuilt with Rive and React instead of Flash. It’s really cool to see it again.

❝ One good quote

🏛️ From the Archives
A favorite article I periodically re-read

Dear Designers is a wonderful reminder of who we’re dealing with. Hopefully we already know that we are not the user, but the user is often very different from us. This article inspired me to write Think Different: Designed with Windows.

Thanks for reading ✌️
- Ted (@tedgoas)