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Substack Refugee Weekly
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finishing
Issue 41: Notes on Finishing Things
Issue 41 in full: the week's essay on why unfinished work piles up, three short things worth keeping, a letter from the inbox and the postscript, as it lands on a Friday.
unsubscribe
Issue 40: What an Unsubscribe Taught Me
Someone left my list last Tuesday and, for once, told me why. It stung for a day. Then it became the most useful thing anyone has said about this letter in a year.
audience
Issue 39: Moving a List Without Losing the Room
A reader asked how to move a mailing list to a new home without losing half the people on it. I've done it twice, badly once. Here's the order I'd do it in now.
reading-list
Issue 38: Seven Things Worth Your Friday
A lighter letter this week: seven things that held my attention, each described in a single line, from a lighthouse logbook to the best sentence about rain I read all month.
readers
Issue 37: Your Replies, and the One I Keep Rereading
The pen experiment brought more mail than anything I've sent this year. A handful of your replies, and one long answer from a reader that I haven't been able to put down.
writing-habits
Issue 36: The Morning I Stopped Typing First
For years I opened the laptop and began typing before I knew what I thought. This week, a small change: pen first, screen second, and what it did to my sentences.