Feed the Writers

This is very much written off the cuff, and I’ll neaten it up at some point. As AI dramatically steamrolls it’s way into our lives in every single aspect, I find it’s easy to be lazy - especially when there’s an answer being proposed right there. But if we consistently rely on the lazy, in your face answer, without just using the web - we’re going to miss out on a ton of good content. Over reliance on that generated snippet of your search at the top of Google’s searches mean a new way - for bad or good - of searching the web. Reliance on bitesized nuggets full of half-baked assumed content, rather than fully fleshed, organic ideas. Written by people - real people. Who eventually stop writing because no-one reads their content anymore. What a devastating turn of events.

The search engine no longer says “here, go read what this person wrote.” It now says “here, I’ve already read it for you.” The contract is broken. - Matthias Ott

Stefan Judis wrote about this concern for his own newsletter in his Web Weekly newsletter, and looking at it, it’s completely justified.

Below is a list of newsletters (as of today, June 19th, 2026) that I’m currently subscribed to that are put together with effort, sharing the content that was written with effort and shared with effort. Rather than it just being the compiled transcription of a topic you only want to spend a couple of minutes getting the jist of.

If you’re not subscribed to any of these, I would highly recommend doing so. They are a treat to land in my inbox. The more visibility resources like these get, the more we can get use out of them.

Any that I’ve missed? Always open to recommendations, so drop me a link on Bluesky or Mastodon and let me know!