Hey friends 👋, A couple weeks ago, my essay, The Future Is NOT Self-Hosted hit the front page of Hacker News and stayed there for almost 36 hours. The piece got 30,000 views over night, received hundreds of comments and replies, and this newsletter grew from an intimate gathering of| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, I'm down a rabbit hole this week on self-hosting and haven't had time to finish an essay. But, I told myself I wouldn't go two weeks without sending out a newsletter. So, instead of my normal, regularly scheduled ramblings, here are three quotes I meditated on while on| Drew Lyton
👋 Hey friends, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" This is one of those motivational mantras designed to help us push past our fear of failure. If success was guaranteed, we'd have the courage to pursue our wildest dreams: start that| Drew Lyton
👋 Hey friends, Tomorrow (June 14th), millions of people across the country are taking to the streets in solidarity to express their disdain for this regime's corrupt, authoritarian and oligarchical antics. If you're interested in finding a protest near you, you can learn more about "| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, In Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 debut techno-dystopian novel, Player Piano, there is a world-class machinist named Rudy. One day, a group of engineers and researchers visit Rudy in his shop. They ask him for permission to record him while he works. They show him a device| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, Ryan Holiday, the prolific author of the Stoic Virtue series, has written a book a year for nearly ten years. When asked how he does it, he answered by quoting Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: The main thing is keeping the main thing the| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, Look. I don't care if you're a fan of Star Wars. If you haven't already, you should watch Andor. This show is one of the best pieces of media I've ever seen. Poster for the Star Wars show "| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, This is probably obvious, but I am someone that likes to know things. Sometimes, that pursuit of knowledge comes from a place of pure curiosity. But often times, it is the way I seek safety. Understanding the unknown provides me with a sense of confidence and comfort in| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, I love a good underdog story. It's inspiring to hear tales of people going from nothing to something. I get to come away feeling like, "If them, why not me?" But this week, I've been thinking about what happens when these| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, In pre-industrial England, being a weaver was a good job. Weaving was an accessible trade with a relatively short apprenticeship. The work itself was not incredibly demanding, but the demand for the work was high and steady. Most weavers worked three days a week from the comfort| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, What a weird week. While small businesses have been whiplashed by wild changes in trade policy, elderly folks have been worried about their retirement portfolios as markets crash, and immigrants live in fear of wrongful deportation, I've been writing. It's a strange feeling| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, I saw a post on LinkedIn that scared me. A writer I know announced that after five years of working on their current book, they were moving on from the project and leaving the work unfinished. I cast no judgement on the author| Drew Lyton
👋 Hey friends, For most of my life, I've dealt with anxiety. I'm pretty good at masking and managing it. I journal. I meditate. I go to therapy. But occasionally, I do experience debilitating bouts of fear and worry. These anxiety attacks usually occur when I| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, The article I was planning to send out today got a little delayed. So, instead, I'm sharing a little book BTS with you. Here's the story of Ferdinand de Lesseps. When you picture the person who pioneered the Panama Canal, you probably imagine Teddy Roosevelt. But decades prior| Drew Lyton
The short answer is yes. Here's the long answer... In the game The Legend of Zelda, there is a forest filled with monstrous trees whose collective canopy casts everything in shadow. On the forest floor, a mysterious mist shrouds the trunks and shrubs such that you can barely see 10| Drew Lyton
Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my library because I saw this video by Jared Henderson warning of the change and downloaded all| Drew Lyton