About

Who Are You?

My name is Robin Waldun. I graduated with a Literature degree with Honours, and now I'm giving away everything I've learned.

This newsletter started as a thought journal during graduate school, but to my surprise, it quickly gathered over 20,000 curious readers.

So, it is clear that people still love books (and everything that comes with reading), but gatekeepers keep making 'literacy' more out of reach, abstruse and (perhaps the most unpardonable sin of all) boring.

This is where A Mug of Insights comes in.

I believe that the pleasure of reading can be recaptured, practised, and mastered by anyone, anywhere.

So every week in the weekly columns, I’ll share a life lesson from my reading journey in a long-form, thoughtful essay for you to read over your coffee.

In the 1-2-Read segments for paid members, I’ll give you one practical idea and two journaling prompts to put everything into practice.

I want to make reading simple, enjoyable, and inspiring. This paid segment of the newsletter will teach you how to do that.

Once every two weeks, I will send you a newsletter to improve your reading skills with the following:

1 IDEA to break you out of your reading slump and shift the way you think about lifelong learning.

2 JOURNALING PROMPTS to put the big idea into immediate action.

Then watch the way you READ transform as you strengthen your literacy skills.

Paid members will also get access to the full archive (posts are automatically archived after 6 months). This will give me more time to produce high-quality posts consistently. Thank you for your contribution!