Why a personal newsletter?

In some ways, this is a multi-year long culmination of different things I've tried to maintain connections with people I care about. I enjoy sharing updates about my life with friends and family, but it can become unmanageable to send everyone the same updates across various group chats, private messages, and social media followings. Everyone's on a different app, so if I want to let all of the key people in my life know about something, I'm bouncing between Signal, SMS text messages, and Instagram.

I also have increasingly started to hate doing things on my phone; typing on the tiny little keyboard, trying to scroll back through all my photos to pick the right one to share, and everything vying for your attention so you end up forgetting why you got on your phone in the first place.

I wanted something more focused, where I could just write stuff and push one button to share my updates. Everyone has an email address, so newsletters seemed like the best way to connect with the people I want to keep updated :)