Watch the borders

My new number, some FBI stories, the art of saying nothing, and 7 other things worth your time.

Before we start today, I have a new phone number!

It’s (718) 866-1753.

Why would you want my phone number? A few reasons:

1. Because the email version of Understandably sometimes seems to go to spam for no reason. Ugh, it’s frustrating. But, if you text me at that number, I’ll send you a message with a link to the web version of Understandably each day. I’ll also send some other good stuff I’m working on, starting after Labor Day. You might find out you like it.

2. Because you want to text me! I’m doing this with a tool called Community, and they tell me it’s a good way to carry on conversations with multiple readers at the same time. I really like that idea.

3. Because you want to be part of a cool experiment. I started writing newsletters because that was kind of the “new-old-new-again” thing. Now they say text is the new “new-old-new-again” thing. Will it be amazing? I mean, I hope so, but we’ll find out together.

So, give it a try if you like. Fire off a quick text … (that number again: (718) 86…