Roll
I subscribe to and read these writers’ work in NetNewsWire. I first published this list in the February 2022 issue of my monthly newsletter.
- Taz Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller, and artist.
- Maggie Appleton makes visual essays about programming, design, and anthropology.
- Heather Armstrong is the mother of all mommy bloggers.
- Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science.
- Mandy Brown writes about books.
- Stacia Brown is a journalist and diarist.
- Maciej Ceglowski is an activist, adventurer, and technologist.
- Frank Chimero writes about design.
- Caroline Crampton writes about all sorts of things.
- Drew DeVault writes about open source technology.
- Nadia Eghbal is an essayist and public intellectual.
- Caitlin Flanagan is a social critic.
- John Gruber writes about Apple.
- Michael Hobbes writes about the media.
- Harmony Holiday writes about jazz.
- Peishan Huang is an essayist’s essayist.
- Alex Hutchinson writes about endurance training.
- Matthew Inman is a cartoonist.
- Katelyn Jatelina writes about COVID.
- Molly Knight writes about sports, with a focus on baseball.
- Rohan Kumar is an undergraduate who writes about open source technology.
- Vu Le writes about nonprofits.
- Matt Levine writes about finance.
- Kyle Merber writes about competitive runners.
- Greg Nuckols and Eric Trexler write about weightlifting and physique training.
- Laura Olin writes about whatever strikes her fancy.
- Lauren Passell writes about podcasts.
- Leon Paternoster works in libraries and writes about web design and politics and….
- Jonathan Ping writes about personal finance.
- Nicholas Quah writes about podcasts and the podcast industry.
- Kate Ray writes about plant-based cooking.
- Susan Rigetti writes about writing, and also about learning new things.
- George Saunders provides writing instruction.
- Karen Schneider is a librarian who writes about libraries and gardening and….
- Brent Simmons writes about software development.
- Leah Sottile writes about investigative journalism.
- Sara Soueidan writes about user interfaces and accessibility.
- Elizabeth Spiers is a journalist who writes about her experiences.
- Becky Tuch writes about literary journals.
- Zeynep Tufekci is library school faculty member and public intellectual.
- Ana Ulin is a technologist who writes about books and other interests.
- Lea Verou writes about technology.
- Cecily Walker is a librarian who writes about love, values, living in Vancouver….
- Sam Wang writes about elections and gerrymandering.
- Molly White writes about ethics in technology.
- Kevin Xu writes about finance, with a focus on China.
- Steve Yegge rants about technology.
- Devon Zuegel writes about incentive design, tools for thought, and cities.
Inclusion Rider
These are the Inclusion Rider percentages for my Roll:
- Women (target is at least 51%): 60%
- BIPOC (target is at least 40%): 28%
- People with Disabilities (target is at least 26%): ? (I’m not aware of any of these writers self-disclosing a disability)
- LGBTQIA+ (target is at least 7%): 12%