Sent as a newsletter January 27, 2022. Want to join my email list? Sign up here.
👋 Hi friends,
Welcome to the latest edition of Newley’s Notes, a weekly newsletter containing my recent Wall Street Journal stories, must-read links on tech and life, and funny dog videos.
🚨 Administrative note:
Newley’s Notes will be taking a break until the spring. After 288 (mostly) weekly dispatches since 2015, I’m going to take a few months to recharge and regroup. But I’ll be back before you know it, friends.
I may send a one-off email here or there with any special announcements, and in the meantime, I may post to Newley.com or Twitter (@Newley).
My WSJ latest:
🗞 Image of the week, above: my latest story, with my colleagues Justin Scheck and Tom McGinty, on Tuesday’s WSJ front page. The headline:
Facebook Promised Poor Countries Free Internet. People Got Charged Anyway.
And the lede:
Facebook says it’s helping millions of the world’s poorest people get online through apps and services that allow them to use internet data free. Internal company documents show that many of these people end up being charged in amounts that collectively add up to an estimated millions of dollars a month.
Click through to read the rest.
While I’m gone….
Here are 10 great newsletters you should check out:
For online oddities and digital tools:
1) ⭐ In Rusty’s Electric Dreams, Rusty Blazenhoff catalogues wonderful and weird stuff she finds online.
2) 🔨 Jeremy Caplan’s Wonder Tools is full of helpful websites, note taking suggestions, email recommendations and more.
For news and views on technology:
3) 💻 Benedict’s Newsletter, by Benedict Evans. What’s new and important in tech, by a seasoned tech investor.
4) 🌏 Rest of World’s newsletter contains the news org’s most recent stories on international tech issues.
5) 📱 Exponential View, by Azeem Azhar. Cutting edge tech: all things AI, climate, crypto, EVs, etc.
For health, books and general interest reads:
6) 💪 Peter Attia’s newsletter focuses on longevity, fitness, and nutrition.
7) 📖 Five Books is one of my all-time favorite websites. Their newsletter is a good way to ensure you don’t miss any posts.
8) 📈 Another of my all time favorite websites is Marginal Revolution, by economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok. You can get their posts via email (the sign up box is on the left).
9) ✍️ Artist and author Austin Kleon’s newsletter always inspires me to create.
10) 🌧️ In Ready for Rain, author and digital guru Lee LeFever documents life in a house he and his wife recently built in Orcas Island, Washington.
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🦴 Dog-related video of the week:
“anatolian shepherd dog puppy in training.”
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💡 Quote of the week:
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
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📚 What I’m Reading
I recently read, and really loved, Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel “Station Eleven.” Here’s a brief Book Notes post.
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👊 Fist bump from Hong Kong – and see you before long,
Newley