This newsletter is a better way for you to see all of my projects and other things I am sharing.
The original idea of social media was that people could share things online that you wanted to see, and you could see them. That’s not how it works now. Now, there is an algorithm, optimized primarily to make the owners of the networks money. Now, it doesn’t consistently show you the things you have asked to see. The people running the big social networks have said that their plan going forward is to try to eliminate that entirely, to make their networks a place where you just passively consume things made by machines. [1]
You want to see the projects I and others are sharing, and be part of the connections and collaborations they create. To that end, there need to be ways to make direct connections to the people whose projects interest you, not intermediated by for-profit social networking companies.
You will keep seeing at least some of what I post on Instagram, Bluesky, and Mastodon, as long as those places seem viable for making those kinds of connections.
Subscribing to my newsletter will let you see everything I share, without a big social media company playing games with your attention.
You likely won’t be getting email from me more often than monthly. You will almost certainly be seeing me mention things I sell, but that’s not the main purpose of the newsletter. You won’t be endlessly hounded to buy something.
I am hosting everything for the newsletter myself. Your email address won’t be shared with anyone else, and you can quickly and easily unsubscribe at any time (there will be a link to unsubscribe in the newsletter).
Of course, there is an official Privacy Policy for the website, if you want more detail on my data handling policies.
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In the process of making physical things, I create a lot of digital assets: pop up card patterns, box patterns, 3D models, laser cutting files, etc. To thank you for allowing me to talk to you directly, I have set up a Subscriber Archive where you can download some of that stuff to use in your own personal (non-commercial) projects.
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[1] Here are a couple of quotes from recent news articles:
“Mark Zuckerberg has been clear about his intentions: He believes that the future of ‘social media’ is a bunch of human beings scrolling through and arguing about AI-generated content on his many platforms.” – 404 Media
“What he is describing, of course, are social media networks that are not even remotely social and which may increasingly not even feature much human-made content at all.” – 404 Media
And here is a more detailed explanation of how social media got like this:
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