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Somewhat tangential but also maybe not: Matt Levine&#x27;s &quot;Money Stuff&quot; is a fantastic newsletter. It&#x27;s consistently hilarious while explaining a digestible number of very real events in finance and tech. He regularly muses about the absurdities and appreciating the bumbling creativity of humans. As you might expect, he spends a lot more time on the topics that fit into those interests (i.e. the recurring segment &quot;blockchain blockchain blockchain&quot; about companies being founded around&#x2F;pivoting to blockchain with seemingly no reason to use it vs. a database except for hype.)<p>Anyway, great writer and I&#x27;d encourage folks to subscribe.<p>Also a great writer, and this _is_ almost entirely tangential, but also maybe not: Jia Tolentino. &quot;Trick Mirror&quot;, her first book of essays, came out yesterday and the first is an accounting of the internet and our collective descent into hell, the subsumption of self through social media, the irreconcilable promise of the web vs. its business model, our magnified sense of the importance of our own opinions, feeling good about saying things vs. doing the work (e.g. tweeting about politics vs. organizing; changing our profile picture to add an overlay for a cause vs. working to solve that issue; etc.) All of this in &lt;30 pages. Stunning work of prose, somewhat depressing, and tightly delivered with measured sobriety vs. the performative outrage we&#x27;ve grown accustomed to (she also covers that.)