Good luck affording a weekend trip upstate! 🍂

A night at some of these hotels is more than my rent.

Good morning everyone. Reminder that Feed Me is hiring a freelance morning news assistant. If you’re interested in that role, there’s a description here.

What else do I have to tell you guys… the responses to yesterday’s letter were great, thank you to everyone who participated in that original survey and the conversation that followed. What strikes me as important is that Feed Me has an audience with wildly different opinions and life experiences, and it creates a really dynamic product, and healthy debate.

I have a new habit of walking the perimeter of Prospect Park every day. Not trying to be hyperbolic, but it’s been life changing. I’ve really been digging Yasmin Gagne’s new series at New York magazine about “The best [x beauty treatment] in New York.” I booked a massage with Sophie at Raquel New York (Raquel’s facials are diviiiiiine) yesterday, and that came with some tough realizations about my posture and one of the best treatments of my life.

Also a few of my readers asked yesterday where most of my readers work from:

I think that’s it. In today’s letter: Taylor Lorenz left WaPo this morning — I spoke to her about her plans for Substack, The New York Times is doubling down on their IP to screen pipeline, and the Hearst Magazine ad sales team secured some big nicotine money.

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Girls, move your lunch plans to the border of Koreatown and NoMad...

Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, is opening their first Manhattan office. I guess they’re cutting back on the cult indoctrination in the woods of Westport, Connecticut. This office addition might be for convenience for the top rich people at the company who are based in New York and tired of commuting, but it’s more likely a war for talent – it was increasingly hard to get people to take the Bridgewater bus from Columbus Circle or 14th St. As far as I can tell, the Connecticut office will still be the mothership.