Field Notes: Pride 2024's equity threat

Also: Google might buy HubSpot, and Gen Z's money dysphoria

The one LGBTQ+ think tank to know about

Also: How Reddit re-engaged millennials on investing -- but not always in a good way.

Instagram's worst (or best?) ads yet

Also: Interview with an author on his new book about the Boy Scouts' LGBTQ reckoning.

How home prices are shifting wealth goals

Also: Latvia inches forward.

Copywriters are babysitting the robots now

Also: Thailand becomes #38.

If you're building on social media, do this too

Also: The only Prime Day cheat sheet you need.

The financial upsides to Biden's LGBTQ+ soldiers pardon

Also: Why this sponsor spotlights unsponsored Olympians.

The next Unicorns should be queer 🦄

Also: Nvidia's ascent continues.

Introducing: Financialicious

A new weekly newsletter on business, finance and culture.

The other perks of FI culture 💰

Also: A big Google leak, and 75+ free games now on YouTube.

3 pieces of evergreen content to write

How AI is trashing feeds, and what we can do about it.

Medium's millionth member moment

How the platform's stance on AI is attracting more humans.

What we can learn from these Pride month kickoff videos

Also: Is American homeownership starting to crack?

How an algorithm f'd up rent prices

Also: What you need to know about Project 2025.

The pink shadow ban

Also: How the ‘Harvard of Trading’ ruined people's lives.

Rocks, pebbles, sand

Also: TL;DR on AI, LGBTQ news so far this week

The runaway credit card debt train 🚂

Also: Lambda Legal turns up the heat.

Buy Now Pay Later is very DL

Also: Your replies, hot links, new book interview, and more

Medium deleted 10 million spam posts last month alone

Also: The best savings account for fun money.

Medium founder's new social network

Also: How Google is changing.

Writing for humans, not robots

'Turning oop into opulence'

Book press! An Out mag profile! Rihanna! Boise, Idaho! Mail bag kindness! Condiments journalism!

Deep work, ten years later

Holiday markets, book things, hot links

Hot links and a bookish selfie

Bot farms, Instagram drama, “Frontier Firms”

Buy Now, Pay Later... or Don't

Also: some pics of the new pad and every queer bar in America mapped

The new economics of Pride

Also: debt downgrade sass, ambient livestream recos, and a great Harvey Milk speech

Deja vu from 2017

Also: My sexiest Out column yet, book launch BTS and Substack's Achilles heel.

KPIs aren't everything

Also: Amazon Prime math, AI dumbing us down, and remembering a narrative nonfiction GOAT

Medium's founder revealed a lot

Also: Bring in the props.

Field notes: My HarperCollins visit

Also: My recession tips for Gen Z, and hot links galore

Field notes: Los Angeles

Also: Nutgraf tips, a call for sources, and hot links

"Bonus points if it's newsy"

MQLs, SQLs, Grindr, TikTok, some book press, and a YouTube binge rec.

Night reads | Tuesday, Dec. 16

Three recently published, thought-provoking stories I thought you might like.

Help me launch Money Proud in 7 DAYS!

Photos, graphics, and links for easy sharing inside

Money Proud in The New York Times!

Also: FSA tips, default bias, and some reportage on gooning

Out now: MONEY PROUD!

Book launch field notes

MONEY PROUD available now! What I've learned two weeks into launch

ID, SF, LA, yas

A quick dispatch from book launch.

Gallup's latest LGBTQ+ poll

And a post-V day interview on love, money, and habits