Introducing The Barbed Wire
If you’re getting this email, it’s because you signed up for some writerly project of mine somewhere along the way. It would normally be a typical...
Shooting The Messenger (Or how to turn a $50 million investment into $3 million of revenue)
Welcome to my post-Substack newsletter*. The title is a delightful phrase I pilfered from Eugene Thacker's Infinite Resignation and accurately describes the...
The Three Genres of Money Problem
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My New Band Is: Bad Religion (ha)
Paid Subscribers Only Edition
Self Help for People Who Hate Self Help
Entry no. 2: This Dumb Little Postcard Helps Me Build New Habits
My New Band Is: Office Politics
Your company is not apolitical, no matter what your CEO says
My New Band Is: Administrative Note
Some updates, and restructuring. There will be no staff reductions, though.
My New Band Is: The Indoctrinated Rich
On the Brearley dad, what indoctrination means in the context of education, and private schools that are segregation academies
My New Band Is: Girl Report
Wherein I report my own gender nonconformity to The State.
My New Band Is: Loser, Baby
On Sportsmanship, Fairness, Justice, and Park Slope
My New Band Is: Someone You Know
Sexual assault reporting in the newsroom, with an important disclosure
My New Band Is: Teenage Mistake
What's missing from the Teen Vogue story, and who's responsible
My New Band Is: Selectively Fettered Capitalism
On Dr. Seuss, antitrust enforcement, "cancel culture", free markets, and conservation
My New Band Is: Trophy Wife
Happy International Women's Day!
My New Band Is: Four Letter Word
It's probably not the one you think it is.
My New Band Is: Unspeakable Things
A White Person's Guide To Never Using the N-Word.
My New Band Is: Noticeably White Attitudes
Reverse racism in the library!
My New Band Is: Slate Star Clusterfuck
On journalism, ideas, "ideas", free speech, and tech.
My New Band Is: Fructose Melancholy
Apologies to real life Will Eno, should this ever become Google-able. And: recommendations.