The other perks of FI culture 💰

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

Why I left ActiveCampaign

Also: How to tell short stories quickly.

How to Edit Your Writing

Also: More Substack news, and field notes from CES this week

Oct. 23, 2023 | 1,000 True Fans, 15 Years Later

Does Kevin Kelly's famous 2008 marketing essay still apply?

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.

Copywriters are babysitting the robots now

Also: Thailand becomes #38.

Nov. 20, 2023: A Wild Weekend of Tech News

Keyword research tips | Some Cyber Monday finds

Introducing: Financialicious

A new weekly newsletter on business, finance and culture.

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?

Rocks, pebbles, sand

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

The next unicorns should be queer 🦄

Also: Nvidia's ascent continues.

How an algorithm f'd up rent prices

Also: What you need to know about Project 2025.

The runaway credit card debt train 🚂

Also: Lambda Legal turns up the heat.

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.

The pink shadow ban

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

How home prices are shifting wealth goals

Also: Latvia inches forward.

Oct. 1, 2023: Introducing ‘The Morning Walk’

A there-and-back-again chronic pain journey

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.

Oct. 30, 2023: Notion Vs. Airtable

This software debate feels like West Side Story sometimes

Oct. 2, 2023: Hammer vs. Wrench

Writing for humans, not robots

[Briefing] LGBTQ+ ppl in the workplace

A new Briefings series, your feedback, and two new podcast recos

Save $500 for Pride Challenge: Let's Go!

Sign up for the Save $500 for Pride Challenge today!

Gallup's latest LGBTQ+ poll

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

ID, SF, LA, yas

A quick dispatch from book launch.

Book launch field notes

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

'Turning oop into opulence'

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

Out now: MONEY PROUD!

Money Proud in the new york times!

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

Help me launch Money Proud in 7 DAYS!

Photos, graphics, and links for easy sharing inside

Night reads | Tuesday, dec. 16

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

Deep work, ten years later

Holiday markets, book things, hot links

"Bonus points if it's newsy"

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

Medium's founder revealed a lot

Also: Bring in the props.

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

Field notes: Los angeles

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

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

Field notes: My harpercollins visit

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

Hot links and a bookish selfie

Bot farms, Instagram drama, “Frontier Firms”