Canary Mail stands out among email clients thanks to privacy-minded encryption features and built-in AI that can write messages for you.

A tour through WIRED's old "Fetish" product review section

From having a plan early on to doubling down on his writing routine, novelist Kern Carter shares the secret sauce behind how he landed three book deals — and paid his bills in the meantime.

Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses shunning stereotypes, the power of rejection, and navigating the overt connection between art and commercial.

Family-centric programming at worker centers has helped bolster organizing among working mothers—and led to invaluable policy victories.

Substack Notes just dropped. Can the startup survive this foray into social media?

What’s next?

They’ll start rolling out in the “coming days.”

Everyone is salivating ATM about the idea of GPT competing with google search / giving GOOG competition ‘for the first time in 20 years’ — maybe… > But what I am personally more excited for / waiting for is for someone to seriously challenge gmail (which for me is a way higher lock-in product than google search)… with AI. All the startup attempts to dethrone gmail come ...

Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please

Read to the end for a good meme about British politics

The decision to shut down Bulletin is an indication that Facebook found a subscriber-focused site was not as lucrative as hoped.

You’ve got mail

Don't hate the technology, hate the implementation.

by Elizabeth Feinler and John Vittal

The Substack frenzy seems like a thing of the past, but lots of publishers are still leaning into newsletters. "They’re a great minimally viable product."

“We needed to move from saying what we were thinking to saying what we were doing.” —Mike Angiulo (MikeAng), CVP Windows Planning and Ecosystem

Such vetting requirements are at odds with so-called institutional diversity efforts.

A new way for writers on Substack to recommend each other and discover more great work

Mail and Airmail both offer methods of copying individual message URLs so you can easily create references in action items, notes, and more.

It’s strange to think that I knew what Substack was as soon as it was put in front of me. But I did—it was an attempt to wrap email in a platform, with promising initial promises, but the goal of strengthening Substack itself.Sure, there were a lot of things about Substack that looked good at the outset—the fact that they effectively gave the platform away for free was a vast improvement over the model of charging money after you reached a certain subscriber size—but every new publisher that jo…

What you read matters.

Just checking in with the MPU community… has anything new and noteworthy in email apps happened recently? (In case you didn’t know, I am constantly in search of the mythical app that will solve my email woes on all platforms. The mythical app is basically Mail, but with, like, a Share Sheet. In lieu of that I am constantly trying other options. I have been using Airmail for the past year or more, but it is not super polished. I don’t know why I torture myself looking for a better email app. I ...

This free email client should be installed on your desktop. eM Client is just great.

By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Ernie Smith who writes the Tedium and Midrange newsletters. A week ago he had a great story, ‘A Chart-Record Feast 🎶’ in Midrange. Here's what I wrote about it: Last week saw two milestones on the music charts. The first is that “All Too Well” by Taylor Swift reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100, and at