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Jan 01, 2020

Numlock News: It's snappy, funny, and informative, plus it's ad-free.

A free daily morning newsletter that’s basically Good Morning America for nerds.

Tens of thousands of people wake up to Numlock every single day.
Numlock highlights the fascinating numbers that are buried in the news.
It’s a a fun rundown of below-the-radar news with just the right amount of fun and snark.

If you're at all like me, you have 93 morning newsletters that you normally delete every day, but I have to recommend @WaltHickey's Numlock News. It's the one that I don't delete!

Walt Hickey, the author, has been writing a daily newsletter since 2014.
You can check it out and read the latest edition here.
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Hello! I have been writing a daily newsletter about cool numbers in the news for over 900 consecutive weekdays. It's a good way to get news you miss because of the louder stuff. It's independent, entertaining, and ad-free. Subscribe to Numlock: https://t.co/B84lLbMgrY

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Numlock was founded in 2018 when Walt left his job as Senior Culture Writer at FiveThirtyEight. He wanted to start his own newsletter to highlight outstanding stories that get drowned out by larger news and surface eye-opening stats and numbers in typical news stories.

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If you don't subscribe to Numlock news, you should. It makes me smile every morning. In other news, I'm going to buy me a T-rex.

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A daily newsletter from FiveThirtyEight alum Walt Hickey rounding up important news stories through the lens of statistics and numbers. It typically stays away from the biggest stories of the day in favor of more liminal, news-adjacent ones.

“It’s fascinating to see how your perception of news changes when they are told around the key numbers in them.” - David Bauer, 14 +1 Newsletters Worth Your Time

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Why @WaltHickey's Numlock News is worth waking up to: numlock.substack.com

“Numlock is an eclectic daily selection of headlines, loosely organised around tech and data. There's always one surprising insight each day, and it's extremely well- (and amusingly) written.” - Guy Reading, Learnerbly