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Most newsletters are a pile of links and a plea for forwards. Dispatch is the opposite: edited like a magazine, written like a letter, and built to be the best ten minutes of your week.
No round-ups. Each issue opens with an original 1,200-word essay on craft, creativity and the business of making things, written by editor Mara Ellison and a rotating cast of guests.
Three short, specific picks each week: a tool we actually use, a piece of writing worth your time, and one unreasonably good idea.
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One app or service we actually rely on this week.
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Every issue is read aloud, trimmed twice, and only sent when it's the best ten minutes of the week.
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№147 · Featured
The Essay
We interviewed forty makers about how they really spend their first hour. The honest answers had nothing to do with cold plunges, and everything to do with protecting a single block of uninterrupted attention. Here's the pattern that kept showing up.
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Field Notes
The unglamorous stack that's saving our small team six hours a week.
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№145
Craft
A field-tested framework borrowed from book editors, not managers.
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Business
The number isn't the hard part. Saying it out loud is.
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№143
The Essay
Ideas are cheap. The discipline to ship the unglamorous middle is everything.
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