We started The Bent because we know how alone new managers can feel. We also know how bad they can be at their jobs — and that neither of those things gets solved very quickly without a lot of help. The Bent is every secret code we figured out, every practical and tactical thing we have: our email templates, our spreadsheets. It’s our advice about what we would do in a situation, and what we did do in that situation, and the consequences both good and bad, why they are important, and what we learned along the way. We’re both managers of writers and editors, so a lot of what we talk about is managing and being a better boss. But it all applies to any hard thing you’re doing. The Bent newsletter comes out every Tuesday.