My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.

I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more

These days, we get so much of our content in bite-sized, isolated bits — links in an email, tweets, Slack messages, blog posts. We consume information because it’s in front of us, rather than because it’s relevant for us. This continually present dynamic discourages reflection and thought. The future of content is about interfaces that can help us... See more

The rise of platforms like Substack, Beehiiv, and Ghost have done much to decentralize content distribution; the same can be said for podcasts, which are still mainly distributed through RSS. Twitter has relinquished its stranglehold on shortform text communication, with many of its users flowing to Bluesky, Mastadon, Substack Notes, and even... See more