Introducing a Newsletter
If you haven’t seen, I’ve been playing around with a newsletter format. On the last day of each month, you receive a note with a focused thought (rare!), recent happenings, and an album I can’t stop listening to.
People are giving me feedback that, quite frankly, make me feel things.
“You’re finding your voice.”
“This is so conversational!”
And “Who is possibly paying you for this?”
All the better that it’s not for everyone. We’re doing it!
For context, the newsletter covers my experiments with time, as it relates to intentional moments with our devices and our friends. Sometimes that means we’re exploring software. Other times we’re dreaming through different ways to spend our days.
(🎵different ways to spend our days) (🎵different ways to spend our days)
This past month we talked about physical environments.
I stumbled upon a simple 2x2 to frame the spaces where you should do your most important work, and I gave you a takeaway to fill yourself. Two people actually did it and showed me.
If you know me at all, you know that’s basically my favorite thing.
The first edition introduced the series and a recent project on making screenshots worthwhile. That’s a concept for now, but the research behind it is beneficial and open to anyone looking to build atop the idea.
The second introduced an idea for gifts — giving gifts, buying yourself gifts, planning future gifts — and allowed you to try out a new service offering I’m testing. Amazingly, five people set up calls for their own gift. Someone I’d never previously met said incredibly nice things about me on the internet. What is happening?
Future newsletters will touch on a variety of things in the thinking, learning and better lifing areas. Some are already planned, but this also runs on your suggestions, so send ‘em my way.
Upcoming newsletters:
(December) 2021 in review, with a lens towards novel life moments and Donna’s alternate seasonal structure for the year.
(January) the other side of environments — the digital spaces we inhabit and the information (types, pace, interactions) we take in.
A series of other ideas are brewing:
what an ideal research engine looks + feels like
the research I’m currently doing, and steps forward from here.
the work I’m looking for, and how everyone plays a part.
things that I strongly believe to be true.
things I wish existed.
experiments in life extension for cats.
appreciation and tools for Dads.
A number of people have also reached out to ask why I’m so bullish on Web3. If you’re curious in an FAQ-type write-up, reach out with your questions.
So, yeah, that’s been up. Plenty more, too, but get in while the gettins good. Being part of something larger is the best part.
Love,
Bren