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How to save media and keep AI startups alive
A big thanks to my dear friend Holden Page who read a version of this essay, and helped me improve it. — Alex OpenAI closed new content deals last week…
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TikTok, capitalism, and whose side are you on?
A 50-0 vote in a House committee to advance a bill that would require the divestment of TikTok from its Chinese parent company or ban it from the United…
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Ghosting Substack
I am very tired
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Five years of not boozing
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Three Years Of Not Drinking
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Taking Care Of Others As Self-Care
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Six years (and one day) of not drinking
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Yes, we took your stuff and are making a killing. Why aren't you happy when we offer you scraps?
Show me the money
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The best books I read this year, 2023 edition
Kinda, mostly
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Four things I'm curious about in 2024
Curious or worried, your call
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In defense of looking like shit
Or, why Senator Fetterman is doing something actually interesting and good
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The platforms will never stop hungering
All Internet platforms eventually devolve into a mess of advertisements, algorithms, self-dealing, and bloat. An iron law of the Internet: If a product…
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Seven years of not drinking is a good time to question your life's direction
Or: How having kids consumes all your remaining creative hours
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One good way to engender a crisis of self is to have a baby
Or: Who am I, really
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