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Sep 18, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Friday Resource Roundup - September 18th, 2026 (opens the original)

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    Hey friend, and hi to the bunch of new friends who found their way here this week. Welcome to the chaos; glad you’re in.I’m writing this from an overhang on the second floor of a music venue in New York, half-hiding from Podcast Movement while it happens two floors down. I’ll write more about what I actually learned once I’ve had a minute to sit with it, but the short version is this: it feels really good to learn things. Embarrassingly good. Good enough that I think I might be done with the big

  2. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Friday Resource Roundup - September 11th, 2026 (opens the original)

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    Hey friend,It’s the second Friday of September and your inbox is probably somewhere between “back to school is a lie, nothing got easier” and “wait, Q4 starts in three weeks.” Grants take up most of the real estate below, and there’s a $300,000 one buried in the middle for the health-tech founders among you, so don’t skim past the middle just because it says “cancer research” and your brain goes elsewhere. Speaking finally had a decent week too, two real conferences worth pitching yourself to, n

  3. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Friday Resource Roundup, September 4th (opens the original)

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    Hey friend,Labor Day weekend is sitting right there on the calendar, which means half of you are squeezing in one last beach day and the other half are staring down Q4 like it personally wronged you. Both are valid. This week is a grant-heavy list and a speaker-call-thin one, so I went digging elsewhere so you are not stuck with nothing. There is a nice stack of clean, no-fee money in here. Read it before the long weekend eats your Monday. Read more

  4. Issue · Aug 28, 2026

    Friday Resource Roundup - August 28th, 2026 (opens the original)

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    Hey friend,It’s the last Friday of August, which means everyone’s inbox is either “back to school chaos” or “panicking about Q4.” No judgment either way. This week is grants-heavy in the best way, and fair warning: the biggest check on this list closes Sunday and a whole cluster of monthly grants close Monday. So maybe read this one before you pour the second coffee. Read more

  5. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    The Aunt Who Kept Eating (opens the original)

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    Okay so you’ve probably already seen the video, because at this point I think everyone has.A woman stands up at her own birthday lunch, in a restaurant, surrounded by her entire family, and tells them she got into a master’s program in creative writing in Glasgow, Scotland. She’s moving across an ocean. She’s starting over at 40, right off the back of a divorce, on the strength of a book she wrote during what was probably the worst year of her life. And her aunt just keeps eating. Never looks up

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