Have you considered publishing fewer stories?
The Great Slowdown > The Endless Scroll.
Good afternoon, everyone.
The Hollywood Reporter included me on their list of the 50 Most Powerful People in New York Media. I’m in good company with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Mark Guiducci, Bari Weiss, Kareem Rahma, and Michael Bloomberg (three of whom have participated in a Feed Me Guest Lecture).
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie interviewed me for Substack’s new show about media founders, Open Tab. We drank Guinness at 10 a.m. at Old Town Bar and discussed how Feed Me started.
People often ask: What’s next for Feed Me? I’ve spent most of the last few years trying to get here, so the short-term answer is writing another newsletter tomorrow morning. Sometimes I fantasize about turning the lights off and saying: That was a fun internet project. Sometimes it feels like a story that I’ve written multiple endings to. But more often it feels like an Altman or Malick movie, where we’re shooting without a script and finding the plot as we go along.
Today’s newsletter includes: Sam Altman’s leaked texts, a new bar in Red Hook inspired by a “crazy night in Paris,” and the author calling Substack “the single worst development for the literary world in the last few decades.”
Browsing and posting on the Feed Me Job Board is free. Current listings include David Protein, Semafor, and The Dispatch.
