@greenwell.bsky.social wrote a real banger about the higher ed crisis we're often not talking about: what's happening to small, mid-tier liberal arts colleges. come for the dire truth, stay for the beautiful scene work www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

just called Kaiser's medical advice hotline and the nurse answered the phone by sneezing three times. astonishingly efficient role reversal: Nurse Patrick, how are YOU feeling today?

Cool perk of my beat though is that today I won bingo at senior housing

every time I forget how weird reporting trips are… traveling to go be as extroverted and emotionally engaged with strangers as possible, and in the off-time I’m like scarfing down a weird sandwich in a rental car and wandering around an anodyne/interchangeable motel room

I’m in line at jiffy lube and the teens sitting on a nearby bench are talking about how much they love the paris review. magazine culture is alive and well, folks, and it’s getting an oil change in portland.

Another great one from @wired.com's Generation iPad package: @charleylocke.bsky.social on the forthcoming social media ban for under-16s in Australia. www.wired.com/story/kids-s...

looking to feel old? one of my teen mentees just told me about her "2014 Tumblr playlist," which she listens to as she pretends to be experiencing what it was like to be a teenager "back in those times"

two teens just told me that after seeing a story I wrote in a print nyt magazine, they now think I'm "so famous and so real." print as clout: not dead!!!

all this talk about the “golden age” of magazines… I would just like to say that, I, too, experienced it (wore pencil skirts to my vanity fair internship in summer 2012, where I fetched graydon carter’s lunch from hale & hearty and delivered packages to writers’ brownstones in the west village)

had a dream last night that I was on a flight with zohran and he traded for a middle seat so that a mom and a little kid could sit together. just the kind of good guy he is

As a Berkeley High freshman, Megan Greenwell broke a story that exposed a trafficking ring led by one of the city's richest landlords.

for NYT Magazine, I wrote about how AI sees and makes sense of us—and the freaky ways it can help us understand ourselves better www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

there's so much pontificating from experts about how teens don't date or hook up anymore. so I talked to the *actual* experts on being a teenager today (teenagers themselves) www.vox.com/even-better/...

I wrote about how the Trump administration is making life worse for aging Americans, which includes both seniors with financial security and those of us who aren't seniors yet @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

remember: if a source refuses to answer your questions, it could be because they don't trust you. but if they're in middle school, it also could be because *checks notes* they're mad at their mom and you were on speakerphone.

love to get punked by a source (called a teen and got his voicemail, which was one of those "hi! ... hello??? ... can you hear me???" recordings. teen boys, making me stammer confusedly from 2002 to infinity)

I'm tickled and impressed by the magazine that has claimed @nytmag.bsky.social, I aspire to also be a contributing writer to... New Yurt and Tent Magazine

just received an email from a source, containing a dozen links to mesmerizing live jellyfish cams. highly recommend interviewing cool teenagers and happy to report that despite everything, the kids are all right www.youtube.com/live/OMlf71t...

So many of us feel helpless about how to change enormous injustices. Jennifer rolled up her sleeves and just started doing it. Glad to get to write about a “global changemaker” who is, first and foremost, meeting the needs of her community, who leads by listening and taking action.

At COP, Jennifer Uchendu found that global leaders weren’t interested in the urgent perspectives of young Africans. So she created the space she needed, where African youth can talk about the intersecting experiences of climate catastrophe. #NatGeo33 www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...

great way to force yourself to follow this rule is to write for kid readers. I am constantly asking experts questions like "but how come a bike stays upright?" "what about farts are stinky?" "does it actually matter if I brush my teeth?" always pretend you're writing for a curious 10-year-old!

Megan, who is so powerful that legions of teens adore her *even after* she took away their phones, has written a brilliant book that urgently clarifies how private equity ruins specific, actual lives. I plan on handing out copies on wall street next time I'm in nyc, lmk if you want to join

This is a little more time-consuming but I really loved this piece by @charleylocke.bsky.social about memorizing poems instead of looking at your phone and I really feel like this could have a healthy impact on your writing (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/m...

today I interviewed a 13-year-old who signs off emails not with "Sincerely" or "Best" but with "Your Fisherman". the only acceptable email signature imo