Ethan tagged me in a post. I didn���t feel a thing.

���I���d love to invite a few other folks to share their favorite newsletters���, he wrote.

My immediate thought was that I don���t actually subscribe to many newsletters. But then I remembered that most newsletters are available as RSS feeds, and I very much do subscribe to those.

Reading RSS and reading email feel very different to me. A new item in my email client feels like a task. A new item in my feed reader feels like a gift.

Anyway, I poked around in my subscriptions and found some newsletters in there that I can heartily recommend.

First and foremost, there���s The History Of The Web by Jay Hoffman. Each newsletter is a building block for the timeline of the web that he���s putting together. It���s very much up my alley.

On the topic of the World Wide Web, Matthias has a newsletter called Own Your Web:

Whether you want to get started with your own personal website or level up as a designer, developer, or independent creator working with the ever-changing material of the Web, this little email is for you. ������

On the inescapable topic of ���AI���, I can recommend Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: The Newsletter by Professor Emily M. Bender and Doctor Alex Hanna.

Journalist Clive Thompson has a fun newsletter called The Linkfest:

The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I’ve found — links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me.

If you like that, you���ll love The Whippet by McKinley Valentine:

A newsletter for the terminally curious

Okay, now there are three more newsletters that I like, but I���m hesitant to recommend for the simple reason that they���re on Substack alongside a pile of racist trash. If you decide you like any of these, please don���t subscribe by email; use the RSS feed. For the love of Jeebus, don���t give Substack your email address.

Age of Invention by Anton Howes is a deep, deep dive into the history of technology and industry:

I���m interested in everything from the exploits of sixteenth-century alchemists to the schemes of Victorian engineers.

Finally, there are two newsletters written by people whose music I listened to in my formative years in Ireland���

When We Were Young by Paul Page recounts his time in the band Whipping Boy in the ���90s:

This will be the story of Whipping Boy told from my perspective.

Toasted Heretic were making very different music around the same time as Whipping Boy. Their singer Julian Gough has gone on to write books, poems, and now a newsletter about cosmology called The Egg And The Rock:

The Egg and the Rock makes a big, specific argument (backed up by a lot of recent data, across many fields), that our universe appears to be the result of an evolutionary process at the level of universes.

There you go���quite a grab bag of newsletter options for you.