The final audience question... asked how to help younger generations recognize the importance of American legacy journalism. The room burst into applause at her question, though no one had a ready answer. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...

Everyone surprised by this should watch more water polo

Obviously there is a lot of news this morning and most it is more important but let us also take joy in this

This ruling was released around an hour after U.S. economic growth was shown to be stagnating on the back of consumer spending on goods being totally flat while company's stocks piled up and Federal government spending taking a big tumble at the end of the year www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

A large part of why I'm so skeptical of this new new new age of algorithmic marketing and recommendations is that I was an early Kindle guy and spent a decade telling Amazon just about everything I read only for it to consistently give me bad recs www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/t...

This is doubly funny to me, a Jeep guy www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...

For all the speculation as to whether or not AI spending is propping up the economy, this nugget about an aging America has gone largely unnoticed for months www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

I believe so deeply that dating—and much of modern life—feels so bad because we've made it so transactional. Just go out with people, enjoy meeting them, pick up good stories however it may work out www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

My dad lives in the VI and there are, like, a lot of good spots to pop in via boat! Tough to say which exactly were open in 2012, but these days, the pizza boat in Christmas Cove, the Lime Out taco boat in Coral Bay or even mooring outside Maho Bay and taking a zodiac in are all great lunch options

What we really need is for this to be accompanied by a "Latest Drafts" feed which is just an anonymous reverse chron list of every unpublished draft post

My Bad Bunny take is that more people, especially us olds, should listen to new albums on Fridays. It's such a low effort thing to listen to 1-3 new albums a week! Anyway, it was an obvious banger album even if Lux was more my personal speed when I want to listen to a 2025 Spanish-language album.

Time is never time at all You can never ever leave Without leaving a piece of youth

It's not being irrationally happy about the weather sneaking above the freezing point if you're mostly made of water.

Smart of NYT-Siena's latest poll to ask an open-ended question on what Americans worry about affording. Housing and health care top the list, but the age gap is stark. Many other interesting questions in the poll www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I am begging people to just try public transit once. It is _exactly_ what you are looking for! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

Read Doctor Faustus at a bar and everyone who asks what you're reading will either have no idea what it's about or immediately shout "has he sold his soul‽"

“Last year was a slog for the U.S. labor market.” www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

A reminder that you can turn off autoplaying video in settings > content and media

Counterpoint: I also spend more time at the office than the bar (I _do_ think there are interesting things LinkedIn has lowkey done the last couple of years, but am also not sure it's fully replicable to other sites...) www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Small talk is, in fact, good—letting you both have gratifying, low stakes conversations about things we all experience throughout your day AND letting you suss out new folks for how you vibe with them when they pass through your life

Best albums lists are uniquely great b/c in this quiet week I can just go through and listen to them all. Best movies are probably spread across a dozen services I might not have. Best books and shows are fun, but would take me months to get through. Best albums? Right there, easy to sink into!

Tis the season

Every year I am reminded that more people need to watch The Apartment (This is fun, except for it missing my personal favorite!)

Guys. I crushed my reading goal: reading [any] books that I really enjoyed! Some highlights!

I've come to enjoy listening to audio books while rucking or on the stationary bike—but you absolutely lose me when you say you're fully engaged in the act of reading while driving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

I feel cheated that my top four metro rewind routes were D60, S2, D6X and S9

This isn't a prediction because it could have been written any time in the past 15 years, but I suspect the good people at Nieman didn't care at all because it's so true, relatable and needed www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...

Before anyone quips about judging books based on these, it is worth noting there is very little crossover between this list and the Times' best books list www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...

Truly, I would love nothing more than for us to stop inventing new ways of feeding content through various apps and just revive RSS

Public transit is great and helps foster dense, thriving communities with welcoming third places... ...is technically true, here, but not exactly what I meant www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/the-airport-lounge-where-everybody-knows-your-name-df0af519

Excited for everyone who (incorrectly) states they're looking for their penguin in their dating profiles to update it to... ...wild dogs? OK, that might not have the same ring. www.wsj.com/science/biol...

Balance of powers is justifying ligatures in your executable

Some times I wonder if there is a world out there where Zuckerberg's real legacy is helping turn Nine Inch Nails into the masters of the ethereal score Anyway, good stuff here + Tron is interesting b/c it's v much a NIN album not a Reznor & Ross one (but still good!) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...

I cannot help but wonder what things like regional news would look like with even a fraction of $15 billion invested in them each year www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

My Spotify wrapped was all songs I learned to play this year. And there's a disappointment in not being where I wanted to be in various fandoms for bragging rights, but... ...I wouldn't trade that slow, engaged media take at all. That said, I still listened to more Nelly than you did.

I remain unconvinced that the way to improve self driving vehicles' efficiency is "be as aggressive as human drivers" and not simply "have transit levels of passenger density" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

This lede makes the crucial mistake of thinking any self respecting guitar head would buy amp sims _instead_ of analogue amps—when obviously a gearhead is going to buy them _both_ (and use them in parallel with a DI box amp sim) arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

I am begging the Times graphic staff to do something cool with the reader "have read" / "want to read" data they collect with all of their books coverage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

This Cyber Monday, remember that turning off loading images in your email will help collapse open rates for every company that is emailing a vague deal to anyone they can find

I am begging Brands to actually try and sell me their product rather than simply emailing me that something I didn't know existed is now 25% off, this week

Currently, there's effectively unlimited money to build out data center infrastructure—and physical constraints are the bottleneck. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when...

As a nerd who has loved to see other people dive deep into the stuff I've been mucking about with most of my life, it's so weird to see how everything has become gamergate www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

God, I hope this is so disconcertingly weird (complimentary) www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

I've been incredibly lucky to work in smart newsrooms full of dedicated people, but I was especially lucky to get scooped up by McClatchy's DC bureau after being laid off and getting a chance to work with papers so directly plugged into covering their communities. So, a gut punch—if not a surprise.

A look at the almost-half-a-trillion-dollar defense contractor's meteoric rise in value while notching little in sales growth www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

There is a lot of irony in one of the best journalism schools in the country scheduling the first big sports event in DC in over a decade the day before Election Tuesday

Baseball is great (horrible)

Neighborhoods are good, man (porchfest edition)

Prey, I trust you know me, Ozy But look on my works and despair? I know there's, around, much decay But look on my works and despair? Prey, I trust you know, me Ozy But look on my works and despair? And all the other trunks, vast, fade, But look on my works and despair? 🎶

We have successfully created an inverse Haruki Murakami www.wsj.com/sports/nyc-m...