Hi friends,

The last time we wrote about personal websites, a few of you kindly responded with links to your own. We’re excited about this because, as we said before, personal websites help keep the web free, open, and creative. And, unlike other places on the internet, personal sites tend to be just plain pleasant places to learn about people’s work, ideas, and lives. It was lovely to browse the websites shared with us.

So, we’re going to make sharing nice personal websites a regular feature in this newsletter. We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we have so far. Thanks to these five for helping us get this ball rolling:

• Phil Coffman, designer and DIY bike building enthusiast
• Mark Hurst, founder and CEO of Creative Good
• Jason Pamental, web typography expert and avid road cyclist
• Matt McManus, product designer, software engineer, and book reviewer
• Tom Critchlow, a consultant who built a personal wiki

Please reply to this email or say hi on Twitter with a link to share your personal website with us.

On technology, design, and business

• The typography of the 2020 democratic candidates (related: Public Sans)
• How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
• Jack Dorsey, wellness guru

On anything and everything else 

• A map of New Deal photography (from our HQ’s home state: Two sheepmen talking, Picking potatoes, Loading fat lambs)
• A history of “Greetings From” postcards
• Performing meaningless rituals vs. being mindful

In parting

“Never forget: We live in a made up system. We can change the rules.” — Tina Roth Eisenberg