Things we're thinking about.
Essays, notes, and receipts. Written for people who prefer a good evening out to an infinite feed. No newsletter bait. No algorithms. Just writing.
Nashville's Secret Ingredient.
Why we chose Nashville first. A city that still shows up, still has neighborhoods with real identity, and still believes in gathering.
Read the letter →We Used To Just Knock.
There was a time when showing up unannounced was just life. Here is how, one convenience at a time, we trained that instinct out of ourselves.
Read the letter →Why Is It So Hard To Find Friends.
A Reddit thread, a bar full of strangers, and a Saturday morning frisbee game. The real reason friendship gets harder with age, and the simple recipe that still works.
Read the letter →What Was Hiding Behind Snapchat's Ghost.
Disappearing messages built for dealers. 63 families. A search warrant ignored. 75 complaints on one account. The receipts on what Snapchat hid behind its ghost, and how to walk away.
Read the letter →Instagram Sold You A Mirror And Called It A Window.
Zuckerberg's own emails. Meta's own buried research. The acronym they invented for inappropriate contact with kids. And the trial that could finally crack the wall.
Read the letter →Douyin Is Spinach. TikTok Is Opium.
TikTok engineered teenage addiction in 35 minutes. Their own internal documents, accidentally unredacted by Kentucky regulators, tell us exactly why.
Read the letter →X Marks The Spot. And The Spot Is A Miss.
Child safety failures. An algorithm engineered for outrage. A 2.8 billion record breach. The receipts on what X has become, and how to walk away.
Read the letter →What Facebook Took From Us. And How To Take It Back.
A sworn testimony. A mountain of peer-reviewed research. And the ordinary life we quietly handed to a platform engineered to keep us scrolling.
Read the letter →Where Did Everyone Go.
Why making friends as an adult feels impossible. And why it isn't really about you.
Read the letter →The nostalgia of the late 90s and early 00s.
A Saturday morning with no alarm, no algorithm, and nowhere to be. What we lost, and what's worth finding again.
Read the letter →The most connected generation in history is also the loneliest.
We have more ways to reach each other than ever before. So why does it feel like nobody is really there?
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