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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 •

November 2022

Posting through it one last time

I've been on Twitter for my entire adult life. The @Luke_Winkie account was created in 2009, during a languid computer lab session in high school…

Nov 22, 2022 •

September 2022

On Earth We Were Briefly BuzzFeed

This isn't a Try Guys explainer. I would never do that to you within the sanctity of On Posting. But you are going to need to grasp the basic principles…

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. The germ of the discourse dates back to the early aftershocks of the…

Jul 11, 2022 •

April 2022

Nothing to lose but our Musk

To be clear: It is definitely bad that Elon Musk owns Twitter now. The reasons for this are numerous and exist on a wide gradient of urgency. It's…

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. I do not know much about him, other than that he used to…

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. The way I see it, there have been three distinct questionable…

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. I know this because I search…

Oct 17, 2021 •

September 2021

It should be impossible to read Spin in 2021. The URL should either redirect to an elegiac 404, or a tasteful archive of the magazine's glory years. No…

Sep 9, 2021 •

June 2021

Am I really going to be doing this for the rest of my life?

June will be my best month of 2021. I don't keep a ledger — I usually only discover how much money I made each year after adding up all the numbers in…

Jun 17, 2021 •

You're taking Ws, even when you're taking Ls

I used to follow Eve Barlow back in the day. She was a notable music writer who authored a couple of good record reviews, and she bounced around my…

Jun 3, 2021 •

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