Newsletters on Life

Build a more fulfilling career by integrating work with your life. The Jungle Gym is a newsletter full of ideas on how to manage your career and work smarter. Nick deWilde aims to share insights about the changing nature of work to help you make better choices about your life and career. The author publishes three different types of emails: The Essay - a long-form article on the relevant topic, The Keyring - exchange with a domain expert about tools, methods, and frameworks they use to make progress in their careers and The Roundup - riffs and recommendations of good content Nick has been reading lately.  Subscribe for topics ranging from Twitter addiction and working for the internet to in’s and out’s of platform branding. 

A weekly extraction of fascinating things humans put on the Internet. For curious people in a hurry.  This Week’s Worth provides insights, summaries, and links to the creme de la creme of the world wide web. Personal development looks like the main theme running throughout the newsletter, but you can expect loads of different stuff. The topics range from best beliefs sourced from HN to articles on historic events and from book notes and insights to “how-to” blog posts. Subscribe for content and stay for tweets and GIFs of the week!

Reflections on longing, confusion, and joy. Expect commentary on the human condition with a touch of humor, anger, and questioning. Ask Molly is an existentialist advice column with lots of perfectly placed fucks. Heather Havrilesky shares her wisdom exploring all things that are messy, frustrating, or unpleasant. Explore topics from marriage to little guys, politics to mean girls and you’ll see - Ask Molly tells exactly what you needed to hear.

Weekly dispatches from the pit of despair. Welcome to Hell World explores the fear and violence of daily life through a mixture of reporting, essay-writing, and memoirs. Luke O’Neils focuses on current events and shares the most unpleasant details of his own personal life. Get ready for an uncomfortable read about police brutality, addiction, political media, and eating disorders all blended together in this Hell World.

Evidence-based pregnancy and parenting. Put your assumptions away and learn how to make data-driven decisions when expecting and raising a child. The newsletter questions common pregnancy and parenting rules, by analyzing data from different research papers and studies. Emily Oster takes current events into account and writes about pregnancy risks in times of COVID and Wildfires, provides data on Schools and Day Care, and tangles other important parenting questions, by applying economics into everyday life.

a semi regular newsletter about sad garbage I’m into. books/snacks/softcore aka bitchesgottaeat a blog turned into the newsletter, turned into a recap of episodes of Judge Mathis. Samantha Irby shares her personal experiences and captures powerful truths, which are all very relatable. She’s also giving recommendations for books, she’s reading, snacks she’s making, and things worth watching on TV. Samantha Irby’s writing is raw and hilarious. Expect stories about awkward sexual experiences, recipes for green things that look like health, and, of course, lots of recaps on Judge Mathis, presented through the author’s comical lens.

Newsletter with exclusive essays, good things, a book club, special devotional series, and so much more. “Super Jesus-y” newsletter is a mixture of soul-searching, feminism, and GIFs. Field Notes is a community as well, it is full of book recommendations and conversations with its readers. Sarah Bessey publishes questions and encourages discussions, shares prayers, and provides tools to practice all in the same newsletter format. Join the community in doing great work in the world.

Advice, essays, and more by John Paul Brammer. Hola Papi is a popular LGBTQ and Latino advice column, suited for anyone who appreciates wit and wisdom. Full of essays, illustrations, and unfiltered thoughts - Hola Papi has the winning formula of “40% funny, 40% earnest, 10% bonkers, and 10% Valentina hot sauce.” The column tackles questions from readers around the world and it is now considered a reflection on what it means to be queer in today’s society. It’s honest, it’s humorous and it’s full of wisdom on love and life.

figuring out how to be and raise ethical, joyful humans in beautiful, horrible times. The examined family is an honest, personal newsletter that encourages you to reflect on your life and to rethink and reassess what it means to live a good one. Courtney Martin reckons how the world has changed, shares the daily struggles of living in quarantine, and offers a Sunday Times Snapshot of “5 things worth noting from today’s New York Times”. The examined family is a mixture of essays, Q&As with activists from different fields and has an engaged community of like-minded, wise people.

Lieutenant, you would do me an enormous favor if you stopped calling me sir. The Shatner Chatner is a newsletter full of Daniel Lavery’s thoughts and feelings. It features thought-provoking personal essays, weird jokes, and opinions that give you a sneak peek into the writer’s mind. The author shares things you never knew you wanted to hear - from random observations and hypothetical scenarios to truthful stories about transition and family estrangement. Subscribe to Daniel Lavery’s niche worldview and enjoy 21st-century poetry.