He/him | Writer, mostly on business & tech. Words in @nytmag @gqmagazine @business @fastcompany @inc | Board president, Portland String Quartet Society
Portland, ME
Joined April 2008
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The best part of this only-in-Maine story? The 64 year-old lady and the bear already had beef.
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I entered the free Shakespeare in the Park Lottery for a chance to win free tickets on @TodayTix! Tap here to enter: todaytix.com/nyc/shows/29013…
Reason #5711 why Pamela Colloff is the GOAT investigative reporter
I always use colorful stamps when sending mail to anyone in prison: just one pop of color can be meaningful in a world of white and grey.
@DinaGachman on the sensory deprivation of prison and the hunger it creates:
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“Apparently for Zuckerberg, real men scroll.” Zuck is officially out of beta
imagine being one of zuck's nearest and dearest bros and in the old days you got to just go to his compound and drink expensive wine, and now you have to "wrestle around" and let him do juijitsu moves on you bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Apple Music randomly played an earnest contemporary country song this morning and...and it really resonated with me? Yes I've been living in a rural area for the past two years. No I won't be taking questions at this time.
For me, hyperfocus = endlessly fiddling with phrases in a single paragraph as I write, or organizing all my reporting in a super duper spreadsheet as I procrastinate writing. But how do you snap out of it?
This data visualization of "rude compounds" is a delight, unless you're a total bumwaffle reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…
![From the dataisbeautiful community on Reddit: [OC] Frequency of compound insults (e.g. "poophead",...](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2113824824506093568/SxejwegR?format=jpg&name=800x419)
Here in Maine, plenty of pro-choice dem boomers vote Collins every time. One told me she doesn’t blame the senator for yesterday.“We’ve entered a new era when the supreme court is entirely political. Susan and I are part of a generation that didn’t think that would happen.”
Burt Helm retweeted
Confirmation hearing statements on Roe:
Roberts: “settled as a precedent of the court”
Gorsuch: “a good judge will consider it as precedent”
Kavanaugh: “an important precedent”
Barrett “so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling”
One tip here: carry your "press credentials" at all times...do any of y'all have these? I've carried business cards of course, but never been issued a bonafide "press" badge. Is this a newspaper thing?
The following advice and recommendations are intended to give the reader a high-level understanding of the rights of a journalist when confronted by law enforcement officers while covering a protest or other political event.
#JournoSec #roeoverturned
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I am *psyched* @chafkin is writing mag stories again
My @BW cover story with @chafkin this week:
After years of secret offices and jurisdiction-hopping, Binance CEO says the world's biggest crypto exchange is now ready to be the "adults in the room"
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