A weekly newsletter on strategy and leadership
One considered essay every Tuesday, plus the three ideas worth your time. Free to read, seven minutes long.
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What it’s about
Letterhead is a Tuesday-morning letter on the work of running things: strategy, leadership, and the slow craft of getting better at what you do.
I read the reports, interviews and books so you don’t have to, and keep only what changes how you work. No hot takes, no breaking news, nothing written to fill a slot.
Most weeks it comes back to one of these:
Strategy
Leading teams
Decision making
Focus and productivity
Research, simplified
If that sounds like the kind of thing you’d like to find in your inbox, you’re very welcome to join.
Sarah Thompson
Editor, writing since 2022
“I credit three of my best decisions this year to ideas I first read in Letterhead. It’s like having a sharp analyst on my side.”
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VP of Strategy, reader since 2023
Inside every issue
One long essay
4 min
Four short notes
2 min
One tool worth trying
30 sec
A question to sit with
30 sec
Every Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.
7 min
Not your average newsletter
Written for curious people who would rather read one good thing than ten quick ones.
Hi, I’m Sarah Thompson.
Editor and sole writer · Lisbon
I spent ten years as a research analyst, filtering mountains of reports to find the few things nobody else had noticed. Along the way I worked at a business magazine and three startups, and learned how wide the gap is between information and judgment.
Letterhead is my attempt to close that gap once a week. When I’m not cutting a draft in half, I’m usually in a coffee shop somewhere, reading something I’ll write about next month.
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