Introducing The Barbed Wire

September 3, 2024

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)

February 6, 2024

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)

$ · June 27, 2021

Paid Subscribers Only Edition

Self Help for People Who Hate Self Help

$ · June 10, 2021

Entry no. 2: This Dumb Little Postcard Helps Me Build New Habits

My New Band Is: Office Politics

June 7, 2021

Your company is not apolitical, no matter what your CEO says

My New Band Is: Administrative Note

May 18, 2021

Some updates, and restructuring. There will be no staff reductions, though.

My New Band Is: The Indoctrinated Rich

April 17, 2021

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

April 8, 2021

Wherein I report my own gender nonconformity to The State.

My New Band Is: Loser, Baby

April 6, 2021

On Sportsmanship, Fairness, Justice, and Park Slope

My New Band Is: Someone You Know

March 28, 2021

Sexual assault reporting in the newsroom, with an important disclosure

My New Band Is: Teenage Mistake

March 20, 2021

What's missing from the Teen Vogue story, and who's responsible

My New Band Is: Selectively Fettered Capitalism

March 11, 2021

On Dr. Seuss, antitrust enforcement, "cancel culture", free markets, and conservation

My New Band Is: Trophy Wife

March 8, 2021

Happy International Women's Day!

My New Band Is: Four Letter Word

March 4, 2021

It's probably not the one you think it is.

My New Band Is: Unspeakable Things

February 24, 2021

A White Person's Guide To Never Using the N-Word.

My New Band Is: Noticeably White Attitudes

February 21, 2021

Reverse racism in the library!

My New Band Is: Slate Star Clusterfuck

February 14, 2021

On journalism, ideas, "ideas", free speech, and tech.

My New Band Is: Fructose Melancholy

February 4, 2019

Apologies to real life Will Eno, should this ever become Google-able. And: recommendations.