Email is good.

You’d think I’d love the email newsletter revolution. So many people are leaning into email is their main way of communicating with an audience.

Meh.

I mean, you do you, but I feel like reading newsletters in my inbox muddies the brainwater. Email is a place of TODOs for me. A place of asking for things and answering people. It’s a different mental space to sit back and read the news, or read someone’s weekly essay, or scan all the hot links of the day.

For me, that mental mode of reading is shifted to my RSS reader. I find it a lovely experience popping into that reader and reading all these things that I’ve expressly chosen to subscribe to because I want to read them. So what to do then with the email newsletters that don’t offer RSS feeds? Well, my preferred RSS reader Feedbin gives you an email address to pipe them right in there. But if you don’t have that, Kill the Newsletter! is a service to offer you an email-to-RSS ability.

Looks free and has a donation model. Not my favorite as it feels like that could turn to dust at any point. But it’s also not ultra mission critical so it’s probably fine.