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A big announcement from Search Engine
How do we survive the media apocalypse? - Search Engine
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This is Ezra Klein expertly and precisely explaining how the business models of the news used to work, how they changed when the internet came around, and how it's all falling apart. Just wall-to-wall insight. We take it all for granted and it also seems completely obvious in retrospect. Him and PJ are also just charming and funny and fun to listen to.
- A personal email newsletter ought to be divided into seasons, just like a TV show.
from Advice for newsletter-ers by Robin Sloan
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- As for the project itself, the tongue-in-cheek tagline I’ve been using is “Dwarkesh meets Ezra Klein but a girl”: a solo newsletter-podcast on technology, politics, and culture. There are some specific topics I’m especially eager to dive deep on (and even do proper reporting!8), but I want to make space for plans to change in the next month of expl... See more
from exit interview by Jasmine Sun
- ‘Decoder Ring’
Willa Paskin’s deep-dive investigations into questions you never thought to ask (Is Parmesan cheese “authentic” Italian? What ever happened to slow dancing? What was the deal with hovercraft?) are more rigorous than they need to be, which is what makes them so fun. Paskin — a former television critic, and among the best writers worki... See morefrom Best Podcasts of 2023
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