These newsletters are why Tastoria exists. Independent curators doing editorial work that most publications can't match. The tool is built for them.
A weekly shortlist of what was actually worth paying attention to -- across culture, technology, ideas, and the edges where they collide. The picker that became Tastoria started as a script built to run this edition. It scored candidates against each other, surfaced the patterns in what was being saved, and made the Thursday night decision faster and more defensible.
The edition is still live. It's still what the product is tested against first.
By Mike Litman · Read it → · Editorial profile: The Connector
Ryan Broderick's newsletter on internet culture, platform dynamics, and the behaviour of online communities. One of the clearest examples of curation as criticism: every pick is also an argument about what the internet is doing to how we think.
Five articles a day, selected for being genuinely interesting rather than important. The Browser's editorial model is close to the Tastoria thesis: the decision to include or exclude is the product, and the takes earn the picks.
Kai Brach's newsletter on design, technology, and sustainability. Dense Discovery does what the best curation always does: it makes you feel like you understand a field you hadn't been following, in eight links and a considered editorial voice.
Casey Newton's platform journalism newsletter. Strong editorial positions, sourced reporting, and an unambiguous point of view on who's getting the platform decisions right and who isn't. The Contrarian doing what it's best at.
Tastoria is not built for content marketers, growth newsletters, or media brands with editorial teams. It is built for the person who curates alone, has a distinctive voice, and cares about the decision as much as the distribution. The editorial class. There are more of them than the industry's tooling suggests.
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