The Pirate Wires newsletter tends to summarize and riff on current events, whereas podcast episodes and longer-form essays deep dive into fringe, uncomfortable, or otherwise strange topics I find interesting. In the broadest sense, I like to focus on
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis. We’ve trained our curation system, which rests on a mix of algorithmic and human curation, on the coronavirus crisis. Like with our 60+ regular
A daily non-coronavirus newsletter about literally anything else going on.
We believe there’s nothing more important than staying on top of what’s happening with COVID-19 (wear a mask!).
However, we’re starting to feel a little news fatigue.
Drawing Links is mostly nonfiction comics about my life, with links to cool things I find online. I typically draw in pen, scan pages into my computer, and send them out in one long JPG. I’m Edith Zimmerman, a writer and illustrator.
Telling Cricket stories with data. - It’s nearly two decades since Moneyball (the book) came out, and sports analytics has never been hotter. Starting with the humble batting average, and visualisations such as the Manhattan and the Worm, cricket...
Every so often — weekly, perhaps — you’ll get an email with links to interesting things to read, links to what I’ve been writing, and short discussions of the issues of the day, or at least ...
"Understandably is my personal project. It’s dedicated to exploring one or two big questions that I find myself asking over and over and over: “Why this, now?” or “What’s the real story behind this thing I’m reading..."