Sonya Mann's Newsletter Archive

Prelude to Adornment

Two commissions are included in Adornment, the next zine. The following showcase is a sneak peek, or a teaser... depending on your perspective 😉 The brief was "decoration, frippery, the importance

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Sonya Mann 24 May 2020 • 1 min read

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Cusp of the Brink

What a nice place to teeter 😊Never Coming Down by Simon Curd — $12.72 giclée print. I was kindly hosted on vaunted cryptid analysis podcast the Gaslight Hour. We talked

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Sonya Mann 22 May 2020 • 2 min read

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Iterative Unfolding

A cheery members-only update about growing from the inside out.

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Sonya Mann 19 May 2020 • 3 min read

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Complexity, risk-taking, bread, etc.

Hi, hope you're having a good week so far! Since the previous email, I published... Notes on the Santa Fe InstituteAn overview of complexity research enclave the Santa Fe Institute,

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Sonya Mann 14 May 2020 • 4 min read

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Up Next

Hi! Sorry to be emailing you again so soon after the big announcement. Going forward, my plan is to touch base once a week. But this time I can't wait,

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Sonya Mann 5 May 2020 • 2 min read

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🅱️ig Announcement

In which Sonya quits her job to strike out on her own!

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Sonya Mann 4 May 2020 • 5 min read

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Greenery 🌿

Today's newsletter soundtrack: Khan & Polo's new album And in my stead, a garden, which is simply gorgeous. Imagine the garden itself performing a swelling, soaring electronic opera in tribute

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Sonya Mann 28 Apr 2020 • 2 min read

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Akshually, Reading the Comments Is Good

A defense of delving into the peanut gallery.

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Sonya Mann 22 Apr 2020 • 2 min read

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Please wear a mask and encourage others to do so!

I've been yelling about this on Twitter all day, and I feel honor-bound to spread the message as far as possible. Masks work! Yes, even simple homemade masks. Aerosolized droplets of saliva that would otherwise fly out of your mouth will instead land on

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Sonya Mann 2 Apr 2020 • 1 min read

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Not a feel-good note ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hi. I feel pretty useless right now. What have I got to offer during this crisis? Words, which is all that I ever offer! But hey, you opened the email, so words must have some appeal. Sorry they aren't cheerier ones. Maybe you're stress-bored.

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Sonya Mann 16 Mar 2020 • 1 min read

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A year of zines 📬

Hello friends! Happy New Year! 2020 will be wild, I'm sure of that. But don't worry, we can weather it together 🤗☔💃 This year I'm going to focus on one big creative project. Playful, experimental, and flexible, but still pretty ambitious! (No, not a book.

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Sonya Mann 5 Jan 2020 • 2 min read

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4 links of note + 1 rabbit illustration

Hello hello! Since emailing you last, I've mainly been focused on work. But I managed to publish four blog posts that you might find interesting: cypherpunk privacy reading list (and/or privacy reading list for cypherpunks)speaking of which! Wendell Phillips was a cypherpunk

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Sonya Mann 10 Nov 2019 • 1 min read

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Everything of note since June

Hello friends! Ahhh, I have so much to tell you, because I'm terrible at sending this newsletter regularly. Without any further ado, in order of what I want you to know about the most... FirstThe last time you heard from me, I was selling

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Sonya Mann 22 Sep 2019 • 2 min read