Miscellaneous 🤷‍♀️ E-mail Newsletters

[michaelskis]

I was recently thinking about how I don't get any magazines anymore. Sure, I still get "Planning", but that is about it. Alternatively, there are several news letters from different ideas and industries that I subscribe to. This is both for my professional life as well as my personal life. It allows me to sit down and focus on those items when I have time and in smaller bits than reading a magazine. Magazine readership is still very much alive, although my favorite (This Old House) is no longer in print. But I remembered tossing out stacks of magazines every time I did a mass cleaning, and to me it felt like such a waste. Where as e-mail news letters are fully digital, so there is no waste and often have the same content as the individual magazine stories.

Last night I was thinking about a particular subject that I wanted to know more on and went down the rabbit hole of looking for another e-mail newsletter on that topic. I am still looking since I have yet to find exactly what it is I am looking for.

What about you? Are there e-mail newsletters that you subscribe to? What are some of your favorites? How to you choose what to subscribe to and what is a waste of your time?

 

[ursus]

Well, not to be boring and band-wagon-y, but I love the Strong Towns (blog? newsletter?) stuff that I get. AND, I love Garrison Keillor's stuff. There are three options, all winners, no lie.

Home - Garrison Keillor

The official website of Garrison Keillor, author and host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac

www.garrisonkeillor.com

 

[Faust_Motel]

I'm enjoying Lee Nellis' The Practice of Community on Substack. https://lee1949947.substack.com/ (The Practice of Community | Lee Nellis | Substack)

I appreciate that Lee is writing again (he used to write frequently in Western Planner back in the day) and that what he writes about is how we can deeply inform our everyday work as "real" planners with philosophy, ecology, and heart. It's a balm for where i find so much of what comes out of APA lacking.

 

[Bubba]

AND, I love Garrison Keillor's stuff.

Garrison Keillor - you mean the whiney little, uh, person who stormed off the stage at Atlanta's Chastain Park Amphitheater despite being warned what to expect from the crowd (you'll be ignored if you're boring)? Yeah, have fun with that delicate little flower...

 

[jumbach]

Magazines we get (a very short list compared to how it looked when we moved in in 2013):

Planning*

Mass Transit*

Governing*

Parking Today*

VM&SD*

Brain & Life

Harper’s

Men’s Health

Wired

Reader’s Digest

AARP Journal

The Week

Magazines we have dropped in the last year:

HGTV

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

*Free and work-related or tangental.

 

[jumbach]

Well, not to be boring and band-wagon-y, but I love the Strong Towns (blog? newsletter?) stuff that I get. AND, I love Garrison Keillor's stuff. There are three options, all winners, no lie.

Home - Garrison Keillor

The official website of Garrison Keillor, author and host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac

www.garrisonkeillor.com

"UpZoned" is on my weekly podcast rotation.

 

[fringe]

I was recently thinking about how I don't get any magazines anymore. Sure, I still get "Planning", but that is about it. Alternatively, there are several news letters from different ideas and industries that I subscribe to. This is both for my professional life as well as my personal life. It allows me to sit down and focus on those items when I have time and in smaller bits than reading a magazine. Magazine readership is still very much alive, although my favorite (This Old House) is no longer in print. But I remembered tossing out stacks of magazines every time I did a mass cleaning, and to me it felt like such a waste. Where as e-mail news letters are fully digital, so there is no waste and often have the same content as the individual magazine stories.

Last night I was thinking about a particular subject that I wanted to know more on and went down the rabbit hole of looking for another e-mail newsletter on that topic. I am still looking since I have yet to find exactly what it is I am looking for.

What about you? Are there e-mail newsletters that you subscribe to? What are some of your favorites? How to you choose what to subscribe to and what is a waste of your time?

Joyce White Vance from Ala-dambama. Her dad's car was bombed with him in it when he prosecuted bad guys.
She became a federal prosecutor.

 

[Maister]

Yeah, I stopped my one and only magazine subscription for Nat Geo when I learned they got acquired by Fox - not going to give them any money. Now I have no subscriptions at all. To be honest, It's not an entirely bad thing not having to cull stacks of partially read magazines every couple of years.

 

[joscoffee]

The decline of NatGeo has been truly tragic. My wife's grandfather gave me a couple hundred magazines (ish) from the 60s-80s. I liked them all so much I bought a few newer issues and it was like eating paste when you're used to pâté.

 

[joscoffee]

But, more to the topic, Substack has a lot of writers that talk about interesting planning-related things. Their platform is all about facilitating email newsletters. You all might find good things to read there.