LUCKY LAWRENCE
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Handpicked Articles
FBI raises alarm over deceptive phishing campaign targeting prominent people
The ongoing social engineering threat, which dates back to late 2025, tricks victims into granting threat actors long-term access to their accounts.
Also in the mailbox
Poetic Justice (Fan Fiction)
The postal short story series about Lucky Lawrence’s misadventures as a USPS postal inspector.
Email Content Inspiration
A Holiday Design Playbook: What to Update & When
When brick-and-mortar retailers want to signal to shoppers that it’s time for the holiday season, they deck their stores with pops of seasonal colors, put up eye-catching decor, and install impressive window displays. Brands should introduce the same festive visual signals into their digital marketing campaigns.
EMAIL Industry News
Payments start soon in privacy settlement ‘hundreds of millions’ could have qualified for
Millions of people will be receiving email payments in a few weeks in connection to a settlement involving tech giant Oracle.
EMAIL EXPERT PANELS
The Forgotten Women — Being Black in Email
This panel discussion features experts Adeola Sole, Sharna Sommerville, Annette Evans, and Lisa Jones. They share candid, personal experiences about navigating the corporate world as Black women working in the email industry.
Job Opportunities
This week's shortlist
Manager, Retention & Lifecycle Marketing
Alternative Medicine · Chicago · Braze / Iterable · $120k-$150k
Senior Manager, Global Cloud Campaigns
MarTech SaaS · Chicago · Salesforce · $120k-$150k
Manager, Future Marketing Transformation
Food & Beverage · Chicago · Braze · $115k-$144k
Wishlist Books
On the nightstand
Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy — Taylor & Larson
First Black municipal architect in the U.S. Civic buildings, ice palaces, stone, city contracts.
Distributed Blackness: AA Cybercultures — Brock Jr.
BlackPlanet, blogs, IM, Black Twitter. Treats Black use of networked messages as culture, not a niche. Open access.
There’s Always Work at the Post Office — Rubio
Black labor inside the U.S. mail system.
Audiomack Playlist
Luckiest Man Vol. 1
Late-night drives, romantic dawns, workouts, reflection, or en route to the bag.
Oops — Momo Boyd and Infinity Song
Bet On Me — Imani Imani
MoneyCall$ — Joy Postell
No Such Thing — Kehlani (ft. Clipse)
Luckiest Man — Ella Mai
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