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coming out of twitter retirement because after three (3) years of @tamarawinter and I courting each other I finally work at @stripepress

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@_theplaza @tamarawinter @stripepress the dream!

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@zebriez @tamarawinter @stripepress thank you for creating this thing!!

@_theplaza @tamarawinter @stripepress congrats!!

@creebeauvoir @tamarawinter @stripepress thank you so much for coming 🫶🏼

first San Francisco party where i got to talk about my writing ideas and wasn’t once asked where i work particularly loved @tamarawinter lecture on “Is taste the only mode after AGI” (haha) thank you for hosting! @tamarawinter @_theplaza @stripepress

@jacksondahl @nxthompson wait this is the best duo

Nicholas Thompson is a disciplined machine (Atlantic CEO, record-holding runner, perpetual achiever) and a wholehearted human (insatiable interviewer, loving father, lifelong student). I talked to @nxthompson about what makes words worth reading in an AI world, the discipline of long form, and what compounds when you keep showing up. Nick is the CEO of @TheAtlantic, the American record holder in the 50K, and the author of The Running Ground—a book about inheritance, pushing oneself, and remembering that life remains richer than we can possibly know. We discuss whether I am a journalist; why The Atlantic matters, great editing and coaching; lessons from David Remnick and the gift of commercial constraints from Laurene Powell Jobs; daily momentum and how tiny tailwinds compound; getting paced to a 5-minute mile by his 15-year-old son; inheritance and Nick's exuberant, chaotic dad; the part of Nick's book that he's never been asked about; and why we are capable of much more than we think. Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:17 - Intro to Nick 3:30 - Start: Words, Reading, and Writing in an Automated World 18:39 - Why Stories Matter and What Makes a Journalist 28:22 - Media Institutions, The Atlantic, Democracy, Tech, and Power 44:21 - Retaining Great Writers and The Virtues of Editors (and Coaches) 57:44 - Magazines and America 1:05:57 - Running, Motivation, Momentum, and Tailwinds 1:16:08 - Aging, Fathers and Sons, Inheritance, and a Mother's Grace 1:31:00 - Merging Machine-like Discipline and Wild Curiosity, The Boat that Never Touched Water, and Who We Might Still Become 1:44:11 - Gratitude, Stalin's Daughter, Scott Thompson's Verve, and Feeling Most Alive Episode 45 of @dialecticpod: Nicholas Thompson - A Life of Long Form - is available on all platforms and below. This was a special one for me. Please enjoy.

I really loved your essay. I haven’t yet mustered the courage to read infinite jest, but his short story Good Old Neon is to this day one of the most formative pieces of writing I’ve ever read. It was, as Lipsky said of his first time encountering Wallace’s pieces for Harper’s, “like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew.” It raised my bar irrevocably when it comes to expressing our interior worlds. I can’t help but think how sad he would be to see what’s become of his “quasi-moral veneration” and “ironic self-loathing." I kind of think his particular tendency toward both cynicism and the divine was the precursor to the Dimes Square scene, which I imagine would be his personal hellscape. They commercialized his irony but forgot to adopt the earnestness that made him so compelling. My one qualm is that going grocery shopping is, in fact, the worst, second only to wrestling on a duvet cover-- This is Water remains peerless!

Woke up this morning and started rereading 'Infinite Jest' for the first time since I wrote this piece in 2015. So good. archive.ph/7fOm8

Delighted to finally see this published and to have been able to contribute. Anti-aging tech is literally free money sitting on the ground. It's bizarre that we haven't yet allocated research capital commensurate to the size of the upside that's available.

lena dunham is to me what david lynch is to all of you

Re: New Englanders as “kind but not nice” — yesterday a guy was coming out of Dunkin’ Donuts as I was coming in, scowled at me, passed through the door, and then held it open for me with the back of his foot while carrying 8 cups of iced coffee on two paper trays

@devinjacoviello @stewartbrand @stripepress i love this one so much

We were inspired by pace layering, and by @stewartbrand, to make this website for his book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, out now on @stripepress

please enjoy this incredibly experimental website about tacit knowledge, because some things you can't fully explain, only experience

1/ Today @stripepress is releasing the first two mini-documentaries in a series we’re calling Tacit. They’re vignettes of craftspeople who provide a pretty compelling answer to the question, “after AI, does mastery still matter?” This episode features Christophe Laudamiel, master perfumer at Osmo. Christophe is the creator or co-creator of dozens of scents, most notably, Polo Blue by Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie Fierce, and Tom Ford Amber Absolute. We spent a week with Christophe, following him from his office, to his home (which too, looks suspiciously like an office), observing him as he built fragrances essentially from scratch, isolated problematic notes (TIL: certain fragrance notes, when put together, can produce an unfortunate ‘wet dog’ smell), and even discovered new molecules. Christophe is an archetype of individual we’re obsessed with: *he’s* obsessed with mastery for its own sake. For the past 30 years he’s been at the forefront of perfumery, and now he wonders if and how computers can augment his craft.

i lied posters for the premiere of Tacit tonight w/ @stripepress & @tamarawinter more to come later this week

@s8mb how do i order drapes with this pattern 😍

Just looking at the proofs for the next issue, and I think they’re pretty swell. (You can subscribe here to get it: worksinprogress.co/print/)

New newsletter: THE MONKS IN THE CASINO In the last few decades, the pro-social life script for many young people—date, marry, buy a house, have a kid—has become more expensive. Meanwhile, the anti-social life script—e.g., posting, porn, parlays—has become easier, cheaper, frictionless. This has created an unusual inversion of risk. Today's young people—and young men, in particular—have become more risk averse in the physical world and more risk-seeking in the digital world. They date less, and gamble more. They find intimacy scary and betting exciting. They furnish their rooms like high-tech monasteries and gravitate toward media that works like a slot machine. I don't think young men suffer from a "loneliness crisis." I think the problem is bigger and stranger than that. They are choosing to be alone, because economics and technology have made aloneness feel easy and togetherness feels anxious. The result: A generation of monks in a casino. derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in…

If you're in New York City, I hope we'll be seeing you at the Works in Progress print edition launch party tomorrow night! If you want to come, get your subscription below and drop me a DM and I'll get you added to the list. See you tomorrow! worksinprogress.co/print

i’m like 4 @simonsarris posts away from getting rid of all of my electronics and moving back home to NH just in time to sit fireside all winter with my small baby dressed in knitted hats.