Ideas
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What 112 reader letters taught us
We asked one question and read every answer twice. Here is what our readers want more of, and what we stopped doing.
Nell Ashby
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Longer thinking on habits, tools and attention.
Last spring we asked readers one question: what should Morrow write about next? One hundred and twelve of you wrote back.
We read every reply twice and sorted them on a kitchen table. Three piles grew faster than the rest: rest and routine, small homes, and cities on foot.
The replies also changed how we write. Readers asked for shorter pieces with one clear idea, and for photographs of real places, not stock offices.
We now read a handful of reader letters at the start of every planning week. It is the best hour of the month.
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Nell Ashby
Nell started Morrow in 2021 as a weekly letter to forty friends. She edits every piece and writes about work and routine.
