Newsletters are the new “Sunday papers”

Weekends are meant for taking the time to do the things you enjoy doing.

For me, this used to mean buying one or more of the Sunday papers, and spending hours dipping in and out of them, catching up on the week’s news as well as broadening my knowledge and interests by reading pieces that I wouldn’t typically come across in my day-to-day.

However, these days I no longer have the time or the same need (due to the 24/7 news cycle) to buy a Sunday newspaper and haven’t done so for years.

Yet, that doesn’t mean that I don’t want to spend my Sunday’s reading, fuelling my curiosity and satisfying my thirst for new knowledge. It’s just that I changed to a medium that better suits my requirements, newsletters.

One of my favourite things to do on Sunday’s these days, is to spend my morning reading Azeem Azhar’s excellent The Exponential View.

The best thing about it, is that I can dip in and out, picking and choosing between what links and stories I want to read either at the time or later, while catching up on things I may have missed myself during the week.

This experience is identical to how I used to spend my Sunday’s with The Sunday Times and/or The Observer, except it is even more relevant and interesting for me than more generalised news.

(Note: Another regular Sunday newsletter I enjoy is Paul Jarvis’s The Sunday Dispatches)

For 9 months now, I’ve been mulling over launching a newsletter focusing on the future of venture capital (you can read why here). While it has taken me some time to decide on the structure of the content, the one thing I was set on from the moment I had the idea was when it would go out.

So, this weekend, put the kettle on and enjoy the first edition of Series F 👇🏻