I never hear back from Jason, Kai, or Benedict — and that's OK by me

I subscribe to ten (10) newsletters that arrive daily/weekly/monthly/sporadically.

Of them, seven (7) — Scope of Work, The Browser, Damn Interesting Daily Digest, The Overspill, Unsung, New Things, and The LinkFest) — are created by peeps who — when I send them an email about this/that/&or the other — get back to me.

Three (3) — Jason Kottke of Kottke, Kai Brach of Dense Discovery, and Benedict Evans of Benedict's Newsletter — have never responded to the many emails I've directed their way over the years.

If any of the three incommunicado writers suddenly broke down and got back to me, I'd be disappointed: my internal world is structured such that when I send off an email to one of them, that concludes the exchange.

I like the haphazard way things have sorted themselves out in this arena.