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  1. The Unhurried Newsletter

    A note on writing to a schedule you set yourself, and why the best newsletters read like letters, not broadcasts.

  2. Footnotes Are a Form of Honesty

    The footnote lets a writer admit doubt, digress, and cite a source without breaking the sentence that needed to stay clean.

  3. The Commonplace Book, Revisited

    Before there were note-taking apps there were commonplace books, and the old method still beats most of the new ones.

  4. A Typography Sampler

    One essay, deliberately overloaded: headings, quotes, footnotes, lists, a table, and some code, in service of a single argument.