Updated 4/10/2023

Websites

My websites

• Cascadia Inspired – my blog focused on nature and creativity
• My microblog – short notes, lots of food
• Sense Memory – my (completed) pandemic photo project

RSS feeds for this website

• Digital Garden RSS Feed
• Book Review RSS Feed

People I know

• Nova Falls
• Cass Holiday
• Durnell Studio
• Joseph Andrew Lafond
• Laurie Noel
• Petricake Games
• Novella Farms
• Wander Bigger Running

IndieWeb folks

• Chris Aldrich
• David Shanske
• Angelo Gladding
• gRegor Love
• Anthony Ciccarello
• Maxwell Joslyn
• Johannes Ernst
• Jacky Alciné
• Benji
• Tantek Çelik
• James G
• Mark Sutherland
• Nick Simson
• T. Michelle Moore
• Andrés Cárdenas
• Jacob Hall

My apologies if I’ve overlooked someone!

Other interesting people

Cool Artists – a long list of personal websites of artists and craftspeople of all varieties (my taste leans towards pop surrealism)

Interesting People – a list of personal websites of interesting people from a range of backgrounds who I’ve followed on social media

 

Blogs and Newsletters

(Tip: Substack and Buttondown newsletters have an RSS feed you can subscribe to if you prefer that to email. Marked with a *)

I’ve bolded some of my favorites. Some of these seem to be inactive but I haven’t removed them in case they come back.

Art & Design

Blogs

• AI Weirdness (Janelle Shane)
• David DuChemin – photographer
• Design is Fine. History is Mine. – historical art and design
• Eye on Design (AIGA) – graphic design
• Foley Music and Arts – musician
• McMansion Hell (Kate Wagner) – architecture criticism
• Mikko Lagerstedt – photographer
• Lucy Bellwood – illustrator
• Photo Cascadia – photographers
• Present&Correct – art and design
• Robin Rendle – typography and design
• Rebecca Toh – photographer
• Reimena Yee – comic writer and artist
• Sarah Avenir – writer – added 4/23
• Spoon & Tamago – Japanese art and design

Newsletters

• Adventures in Typography (Robin Rendle)
• All I Care About This Week (Nicole Linh Anderson)*
• The Craftsman (Gianfranco Chicco) – handcraft
• Dearest (Monica McLaughlin)* – historic jewelry at auction
• Dense Discovery (Kai Brach)
• Rebecca Toh

Lifestyle & Culture

Blogs

• Analog Office (Anna Havron) – analog organizing and working
• Anna Havron – self care and productivity
• The Aesthetics of Joy (Ingrid Fetell Lee) – home design
• Daniel Kanter – home design and restoration
• Going Medieval (Eleanor Janega) – medieval history and commentary
• Raptitude (David Cain) – habits and mindfulness
• The Urbanist

Newsletters

• A Working Letter (Mandy Brown)*
• Cafe Anne (Anne Kadet)* – slice of life NYC
• Culture Study (Anne Helen Petersen)*
• Curious About Everything (Jodi Ettenberg)*
• From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy* – food and culture
• Garbage Day (Ryan Broderick)* – the internet
• The Intrinsic Perspective (Erik Hoel)* – science and humanities
• My Sweet Dumb Brain (Katie Hawkins-Gaar)*
• Passion by Kait (Kait Scalisi) – sexuality
• The Trend Report (Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick)* – culture
• undefended / undefeated (Sara Hendren)*
• Where’s Your Ed At (Ed Zitron)*

Creative Work & Marketing

Blogs

• Tone Knob (Nick Parker)* – marketing
• A Life of Productivity (Chris Bailey)
• What Works (Tara McMullin) – work life

Newsletters

• Roden (Craig Mod)
• The Imperfectionist (Oliver Burkeman)
• Wandering Aimfully (Caroline and Jason Zook) – marketing for small (creative) businesses
• Courtney’s Weekly Tea (Courtney Milan)

Writing & Publishing

Blogs

• Heart Breathings (Sarra Cannon) – writing and productivity
• KJ Charles – author
• Jami Gold – author

Newsletters

• Counter Craft (Lincoln Michel)*
• Lonely Victories (Hurley Winkler)*
• The Written World (Alix E. Harrow)*
• Happy Dancing (Charlie Jane Anders)*
• Welcome to Garbagetown (Cat Valente)* – added 4/23
• The Hypothesis (Annalee Newitz)* – added 4/23

Finances

Blogs

• A Purple Life – early retirement lifestyle
• Mr. Money Mustache (Pete Adeney) – financial independence
• Our Next Life (Tanja Hester) – early retirement
• The Fioneers – early retirement – added 10/22
• Financial Mechanic – early retirement – added 10/22

Misc.

Blogs

• Low-Tech Magazine
• Washington Smoke Information

Newsletters

• The Drongo (Maxwell Joslyn) – interviews
• Lab (Robin Sloan)
• Thinking about… (Timothy Snyder)
• Trespassers (Robin Sloan)
• Your Local Epidemiologist (Dr. Katelyn Jetelina)* – COVID and public health

Trying Out (4/23)

Lifestyle & Culture

• Range Widely (David Epstein)*
• Adjacent Possible (Steven Johnson)*
• Experimental History (Adam Mastroianni)*
• Reading the End (Jenny Hamilton) – book reviews and commentary
• Blind Archive (Beatrice Adler-Bolton)* – capitalism and health
• On Sabbatical (Cécile Marion)* – work and balance – added 4/23
• On the Commons (Antonia Malchik) – land and work – added 4/23
• SAIPUA (Sarah Ryhanen) – nature and work – added 4/23
• Design Mom (Gabrielle Blair)* – culture – added 4/23
• gen yeet (terry nguyen)* – added 4/23
• Tor.com “Mark as Read” column (Molly Templeton) – added 4/23
• Barry Lee Art* – art and disability and queerness – added 4/23
• Kening Zhu – added 4/23
• Authenblissity (Lesley) – added 4/23

Writing

• Left/Right (Jessica Hatch)*
• Internetly (Alice Lemee)*
• So Relatable (Chrissy Hennessey)* – creative work
• The Maven Game (David Moldawer) – writing
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Writing (Amber Sparks)*
• Cold Takes (Kelly J. Baker)* – added 4/23

Other

• Tread Lightly, Retire Early
• Birds – Landscapes – Nature (Chuq Von Rospach)
• The Last Word on Nothing – science group blog – added 4/23
• Clamsplaining (Dan Killam) – clam science – added 4/23
• Interconnected (Matt Web) – added 4/23
• History from Below (Sarah Bond) – Mediterranean history – added 4/23
• The Vajenda (Dr. Jen Gunter)* – women’s health and commentary – added 4/23
• The Disordered Cosmos (Chanda Prescod-Weinstein)* – science and politics and intersectional justice – added 4/23

I’ve decided not to list assorted personal blogs of people who I don’t know, at least for the time being.

Other interesting feeds

12/2022 – I unfollowed a bunch of feeds due to overwhelm. I’ve resubscribed to a handful, removed a handful that I don’t feel the need to resubscribe to, but am keeping these that I don’t feel ready to follow again yet, but still might want to.

Blogs

• homeculture (Meg Conley) – cultural / political commentary
• Scott Santens – UBI
• Budget Bytes Vegetarian Recipes (Beth Moncel)
• Nonprofit AF (Vu Le)
• Leonie Dawson
• KIRISKA – fine artist
• Self-Publishing Advice (Alliance of Independent Authors)
• Silvia Maggi – accessible design
• The Book Designer
• Alastair Humphreys – adventure and travel
• Seth Godin – marketing
• SPINE – book covers
• Everything is True (Ada Hoffman)* – autism and writing
• Boundless (Paul Millerd)

Newsletters

• Notes from a Small Press (Anne Trubek)*
• Men Yell at Me (Lyz Lenz)* – commentary
• The Art of Noticing (Rob Walker)* – paying attention
• Transfer Orbit (Andrew Liptak) – science fiction and cosplay
• Jill Filipovic*
• Maybe Baby (Haley Nahman)*
• Meanwhile (Daniel Benneworth-Gray)
• Cruel Summer Book Club (Jillian Anthony)*
• Nisha’s Internet Tote Bag (Nisha Chittal)*
• In Abeyance*
• griefbacon (Helena Fitzgerald)*
• Pasts Imperfect (Sarah Bond)* – history
• The Fox is Black (Bobby Soloman)* – design and culture
• Storythings
• [SIC] Weekly (Ben Dietz)*
• Publishing is Hard (DongWon Song)*
• Craft Talk (Jami Attenberg)*
• The Whippet (McKinley Valentine)
• Harry’s newsletter (Marketing Examples)
• Raw Signal Group (Jonathan and Melissa)
• The Honest Broker (Ted Gioia)* – culture
• Laura Olin
• Nothing Mountain (Holly Wood)*
• Violet Blue’s Pandemic Roundups
• Areopagus – The Cultural Tutor
• Ridgeline (Craig Mod) – walking in Japan
• Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice (Patricia Elzie)
• Burnt Toast (Virginia Sole-Smith)*