Digest
A weekly letter for those who read to think, not scroll to feel
The Quiet Unbundling of Enterprise SaaS — Why Your Stack Is About to Get Smaller
"Three tools became one. The savings weren't in the license."
The Return-to-Office Mandate Is Losing Its Teeth — Here's the Data
The Attention Recession Is Real — And the First Industry to Adapt Will Own the Decade
"The cost isn't the subscription. It's the twenty minutes you spend deciding whether to open it."
Across every sector, the scarcest resource isn't capital, talent, or infrastructure — it's the sustained focus of a professional who actually reads what you send them. This week's edition traces the signal.
Why the Most Sophisticated Investors Are Reading Less — and Deciding Faster
"Signal-to-noise isn't a metaphor anymore. It's a competitive edge."
The Editor Isn't Dead. They Just Changed Desks.
A dispatch on the quiet return of the human filter in an algorithmic age.
There is no shortage of information. There is a catastrophic shortage of judgment. Every aggregator promises comprehensiveness. Every algorithm promises relevance. Neither promises to have actually read the thing — to have held it against the light, turned it over, and decided it was worth your twenty minutes on a Wednesday morning.
That judgment is what Digest is. Not a feed. Not a roundup. A letter from an editor who still believes the red pen matters.
Past Editions
The Unbundling of Attention: Why Your Best Employees Are Reading Fewer Things, More Carefully
The average knowledge worker now receives 147 emails a day and acts on fewer than 12. The ones who act on the right 12 are not smarter. They have better filters.
Editor's note: This one circulated in three different Slack channels before I finished my coffee.
What the Quiet Reorg at Three Major Banks Tells Us About the Next Decade of Finance
Editor's note: Nobody wrote about this. We did.
The Second-Order Effects of AI Adoption That Nobody Is Talking About Yet
Editor's note: Three readers forwarded this to their entire teams with "read this" in the subject line.
The Founder Who Reads Everything Is Losing to the Founder Who Reads One Thing Well
Editor's note: A case study in editorial discipline as competitive advantage.
Supply Chain Fragility in the Age of Geopolitical Volatility — The Numbers Behind the Headlines
Editor's note: Data-heavy. Worth the extra ten minutes.
The Talent War Is Over. Here's Who Won and Why It Matters More Than the Headlines Suggest
Editor's note: Counterintuitive findings from six months of primary research.
The Year Ahead in Five Theses — A Framework for What Deserves Your Attention in 2026
Editor's note: Our annual planning edition. Readers print this one.
The Year in Review: The Stories That Mattered and the Ones the Algorithms Buried
Editor's note: Most-forwarded edition of 2025.
312 editions in the archive, going back to 2019.
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