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Justice For Bad Writing

My freelancing career began, in earnest, when I was a sophomore in college.

Oct 13 •

September 2023

As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a blogger

I did not grow up on Vanity Fair, or Esquire, or any of those lurid, mostly fabricated 9,000 word Playboy interviews with, like, James Caan.

Sep 5, 2023 •

January 2023

Professional Writer?

Last summer, I wrote a story for, let's say, a mid-tier Hearst magazine about "survival influencers." Basically, there is a small sect of YouTubers…

Jan 30, 2023 •

November 2022

Posting through it one last time

I've been on Twitter for my entire adult life.

Nov 22, 2022 •

September 2022

On Earth We Were Briefly BuzzFeed

This isn't a Try Guys explainer.

Sep 28, 2022 •

July 2022

Did the campus free-speech people actually go to college?

It is weird that we have spent this much time talking about campus free speech.

Jul 11, 2022 •

April 2022

Nothing to lose but our Musk

To be clear: It is definitely bad that Elon Musk owns Twitter now.

Apr 28, 2022 •

March 2022

Twilight of the Good, Bad Columnists

There's this Guardian columnist who occasionally pops up in my timeline named Adrian Chiles.

Mar 21, 2022 •

February 2022

Becoming Wordle Man

On January 7, I published a story about Wordle in the Slate culture section. It's about 1,200 words long and took a morning to write. I'm not sure if I…

Feb 2, 2022 •

December 2021

One Billion Emails About NFTs

I've learned to organize my perception of time by the PR blasts that appear in my inbox.

Dec 31, 2021 •

October 2021

Waiting on Shrimp Guy, forever

Every day, people ask Jensen Karp if he finally figured out what was going on with the shrimp in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Oct 17, 2021 •

September 2021

It should be impossible to read Spin in 2021.

Sep 9, 2021 •

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