The Dispatch
A letter on Sunday mornings, archived.
The archive of every dispatch we have sent. You can read them here, or have them arrive quietly on Sundays.
- No. 012Sunday, 22 March 2026
On endings, and the words we use for them.
This week we publish Maren Olsen's piece on closing a six-year company. A short note on why we asked her to write it, and what we changed in the editing.
Read this dispatch - No. 011Sunday, 15 March 2026
Things I noticed in February.
A small collection of observations from the founders we interviewed this month. None of them are advice.
Read this dispatch - No. 010Sunday, 08 March 2026
The workbench, the desk, and the kitchen table.
Where founders we admire actually do the work. With photographs.
Read this dispatch - No. 009Sunday, 01 March 2026
What we are reading this month.
Three books, two essays, one letter from 1962. All concern the texture of a working life.
Read this dispatch - No. 008Sunday, 22 February 2026
A note on slowness.
Why our pieces take longer to publish than most, and what that costs us. An honest accounting.
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