Everyone wants to talk about GLP-1s.
So we're going to talk about them.
The landscape of weight management is evolving rapidly, with GLP-1s like Ozempic and Wegovy gaining significant attention. At the end of last year, I published a newsletter titled Don’t Feed Me that prompted readers to discuss their experiences and perceptions of weight loss drugs. It became one of the most popular and most shared letters I published last year.
To learn more about the public perceptions and experiences with these medications, Feed Me is collaborating with Found — a physician-designed weight care platform — on a comprehensive survey. This project aims to uncover insights into usage patterns, motivations, and the societal impact of GLP-1 medications.
The first part of this partnership is a survey for Feed Me’s readers. The next part will be the results, which will be shared later this month to all readers. The more people who take it, the better and more interesting the stories we pull from the data will be..
Semafor reports that Vanity Fair is working on a Eyes Wide Shut-style chronicle of internal relationship drama.
Los Angeles-based smoothie store SunLife Organics expanded to New York last month. Today, cool-girl yoga studio Sky Ting announced a collab (merch and smoothies) with SunLife, which is located around the block from the Lafayette Street yoga studio studio. I like how Sky Ting’s founder
teed up the collab: “2025 is my permission slip to play—leaning into collaborations that feel light, aligned, and genuinely fun.” It is kind of funny that the hottest collab of 2025 is not a tote, it’s a smoothie.
You can now filter potential matches by height preference on Tinder. And how does everyone feel about that?
The Cut published one man’s account of flying to Turkey for a hair transplant. “I was ushered into an airport van with a data analyst from Denver. I imagined we’d look like quite a pair walking through security, but we were just two of many bloody-scalped men carrying luggage. No one cared.”
You don’t read about psychedelic M&A every day. Atai Life Sciences is a pharma company that focuses on developing drugs for treating psychiatric conditions (and has Peter Thiel on the cap table), mostly in the form of psychedelics and hallucinogens. The company bought up the remaining shares in smaller UK-based rival Beckley PsyTech at a $390mm valuation.
Parents yearn for their kids to have an outdoors, non-optimized summer. They might be hoping that for themselves, as well.
Google is making AI more accessible than ever. I know at some point AI will be ubiquitous in our lives. However, it’s still hard to imagine that day-to-day reality and not feel relatively distant from it. The friction between its integration in our every move in my opinion is caused by the fact that for now, it still works like a Google search, just one that’s able to do more. The people at Google are taking hacks at that, and quietly launched a new app last week – Google AI Edge Gallery – which allows you to download AI models to run locally on your phone or computer rather than through the cloud.
Meta on the other hand is betting on AI to run/create its ads. We’ve been discussing advertisement strategies and campaigns a lot, and criticism that comes around a lot is that people are tired of cookie-cut creative direction. Ad fatigue, wear-out rate, decay rate, whatever you call it — it’s getting worse/faster. I think most marketers reading this would agree.
Over the weekend, PSG claimed a historic 5-0 victory over Inter Milan in the Champions League final. Both
and I were in Paris while it happened and had plans to watch the game at the same bar before it got shut down an hour and a half before the game by riot police. Paris was in flames, and the celebration poured well into Sunday, shutting down almost all of the 16th and 8th arrondissements. It was definitely rowdy, but I’ve never seen a city so unified behind a single celebration.LA and its hotels are struggling with the realities of having to host the 2028 Olympics, especially amidst a decline in the city’s tourism and hospitality industries. I really want to read this story in this week’s issue of New York Magazine:
If you’ve been fucked by Soul Cycle or Equinox’s membership cancellation process, you might be able to get $250. That covers about a month of membership so if your cancellation really dragged on, that's on the low end. It’s all about those Kiehl’s amenities man… at least this will cover the cost of stocking up on them at home.
Jenn Sullivan (formerly co-host of Fat Mascara) is Wirecutter’s new senior beauty editor. Hell yeah.
on toe rings. Sexy.
Over the weekend, the Feed Me chat discussed a story in The New York Times about raw milk drama on the playground. The writer, Emma Goldberg, hopped in the chat to talk about her research on MAHA moms.
Business Insider, consider accepting pitches instead of stealing them.
Has anyone in the Hamptons or in Nantucket seen these bags in the wild yet?
That Business Insider theft is NUTS
The survey link is not working for me - says “this Typeform is now closed”… bug?