Getting too many newsletters? You're not alone. But rather than giving you a good reason to add another to your inbox, this newsletter writer lets you pay them and not receive any of their newsletters. Is this the future of media?
In the past year, I've published 166,351 words on ESC KEY .CO ... alongside a whole bunch of GIFs mined from '90s and early '00s websites. Some of you are just here for the GIFs. That's OK. So, here are a few of our favorites and what stories they appeared in.
Concerned by journalism’s decline and the déjà vu discourse around it? This week, I recap a year of meta media headlines and connect that to the psychological toll of watching your industry collapse. It’s also a meditation on a magazine that taught me the business, which just died without a word.
I first began using an Apple Watch to track my sleep. My watch told me I wasn't sleeping enough. It also alerted me that my heart rate was elevated when I would run to catch a train. Then I stopped wearing it. What happened next?
Every year, freelance journalism pays less. A typical gig today pays 80% less than the same assignment in 2001. It is no longer a sustainable career. It is, more often, a side-hustle, or the domain of the rich. But in the ashes, we have an opportunity to build a different kind of writing career.