Some personal news, as they used to say at the old site: I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining @themarshallproject.org next month as senior editor for local investigations and engagement, working with the talented journalists in the St. Louis, Cleveland, and Jackson bureaus!

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Really excited to share this application with the world today. I'm designing this program for this moment specifically. The dominant social platforms suck. There are a lot of bright spots with people experimenting and building new things. But also, tech and AI is moving so fast!

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“But the idea that there’s any kind of reward from the system for becoming a bestseller, I’m over it. There’s none. That’s not part of my calculus anymore. In that way, I guess it was a very worthy experiment in whether I care about external markers of success from the publishing industry.”

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The first review of THE INTERNET WILL DIE, AND SO WILL YOU is out from Publishers Weekly: "His wide-ranging meditations, which touch on everything from Bach to TikTok, will appeal to readers who want to search for meaning rather than scroll for distraction." www.publishersweekly.com/9780802885425

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last yr collected some thoughts on subscriptions + publishing + atproto…revisiting, two things that resonate: ~ultralightness (per @laurel.bsky.social) — in starting publications; in making it feel good to share ~more weird subversive economics, interactive & personal — @elan.place a great example

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