A refreshing interview with the founder of my favorite brewery www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R-8...

In an era of declining trust, industry collapse, and technological disruption, does the media, as we’ve historically understood it, have a future? harpers.org/archive/2025...

It me: "But it was difficult to explain to other people. They would say if I wanted beer, I should just go to the supermarket and buy it; there is plenty. But I told them, 'Those are not my beers. What I want is not there.'" www.beerandbrewing.com/a-true-frenc...

Might keep this one open: The new rules of media onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-new-ru...

And yet, he had to conclude, “there is hope as long as history lacks closure. If the past was different from the present, so may the future be.” www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Ugh … How to Hit Peak Fitness After 40

(Not quite there but inching closer.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/w...

"It’s a peculiarly modern predicament: working harder than ever while feeling the impact of that work dissolve into an increasingly fractured and cynical digital landscape." www.chrbutler.com/the-exodus

"The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet."

www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

"In the last three decades, youth culture has moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to a passionate defense of anti-anti-commerce to an entire generation of 'creatives' who leverage the commercial market… to do even more commerce." culture.ghost.io/the-age-of-t...