Two senior Substack employees left this month.
Plus E2 of Expense Account, and Emily Weiss's garage sale.
Good morning everyone. I’m in New Orleans with Rachel Karten right now because we’re speaking on a panel at the Southern Smoke Symposium. It was a treat to have a martini at Bacchanal with one of the greatest cocktail experts of our time.
Today’s letter includes: Matt Belloni Substack speculation, two members of Substack’s leadership team left this month, and Emily Weiss’s garage sale was the Brooklyn Heights event of the weekend.
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Our second episode of Expense Account is out today. J Lee spoke to The New Yorker’s restaurant critic Helen Rosner about how she curates her Close Friends on Instagram, why being a critic requires a fundamental level of narcissism, and learning about Vyvanse on CAT MARNELL’s blog.
Helen Rosner on the state of restaurant criticism.
This week on Expense Account, J Lee spoke with Helen Rosner, a staff writer at The New Yorker who writes about restaurants. Helen has received multiple James Beard Awards for her work, including for her profile of Padma Lakshmi in 2025.
For our next Guest Lecture, we’re interviewing Lina Khan. Khan served as the youngest Federal Trade Commission chair ever from 2021 to 2025, and was recently appointed co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. Today, paid readers can ask her anything.
On Saturday around noon, I got five texts about Emily Weiss (founder of Glossier) and Will Gaybrick (an executive at Stripe)’s garage sale in Brooklyn Heights. One reader who attended said Will was running the checkout with Stripe hardware. Nice.
