I started Curated Compositions in August 2020 as a way to share compositions—mine and others—with family, friends and coworkers. It’s mostly a collection of news from the week, but also includes some of my own thoughts, and other things of interest.
Originally, I sent out Curated Compositions as an email, then, in 2023 I started sending it out via Substack to streamline the creation and distribution process.
Content
In curating content for this newsletter, I strive to do the following:
Find informative articles discussing events that have occurred, versus “may” occur.
Rarely include political or opinion pieces; if I do include them it’s because they make a compelling, logical point that likely transcends politics.
Include articles with interesting data.
Deconflict articles on the same topic, though if there are multiple articles on the same topic that paint it in a different light, I will include those to provide differing perspectives.
Find quality content regardless of whether it’s behind a paywall. Many of the articles I include will be behind a paywall. However, if I come across two articles on the same topic that are similar in content, but one is behind a paywall and one is not, I will default to the one that is not behind a paywall.
Remind readers that all articles are biased (to include this newsletter), either by what they choose (or choose not) to discuss, or the words they use to discuss it.
Quantity
As of August 2025, I’ve sent out over 200 newsletters with thousands of articles. As things progressed, the number of articles in each newsletter increased. I realize that sometimes less is more…and, after content growing to over 60 articles a week, I decided to cut it back to just the top 10 (or so).
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