Emails

I like email. It was a wonderful invention. I can still remember - maybe in the mid-late 1980s - when some friends of ours who were living overseas first suggested we get it. I believe we'd just gotten our first computer. I'm not sure I'd even used it yet. I had no idea what they were talking about. Now...

I spent this morning organizing and deleting my personal email "collection." Compared to most people - especially working people - I probably get very few emails. Most of them are newsletters I've signed up for, or substacks, or some such thing. So, they're almost all things I want to read. Sometimes it just gets too much though. 

I don't like having more than 100 in my inbox... that's where I keep the most important stuff I either need to remember or want to read (there are currently 89, of which 26 are unread). Therefore I have a lot of folders. Sometimes, if the title is catchy, I may just delete some emails. Other times I'll stick them in their appropriate folder.

Anyway, I thought it would be a nice exercise in posterity to make a list of the regular emails I receive:

1440 (news)

Backstory Preaching

Baker Street Centre (concert info and whatnot, from the place we volunteer)

Canvas Community

CGGC

Chi Living

Christopher Smith (Englewood Review of Books, The Conversation Life)

Chuck DeGroat

Coach Approach Ministries

Darious Foreox

David Fitch

Don Kern (Grand Rapids Marathon)

Gravity Commons (as well as Ben Sternke & Matt Tebbe's personal substacks)

James Clear

Josh Spector

Mike Woodruff (the friday update)

Renovaré

Richard Beck

Scot McKnight

Superhuman (ai)

Ted Gioia (the honest broker)

The Neuron (ai)

The Pour Over (news)

Tim Ferriss

Various health things, a few running communities, and some I'm forgetting...

 

So, there ya have it. These are the emails I'm currently receiving and reading