Hi, I'm Leah Reich.
I'm a writer and researcher working to make technology and the internet more human. I've worked for such companies as Slack, Instagram, and Spotify, and my writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Verge, The Atlantic, and other publications. You can read more about me here.
My newsletter is called Meets Most. It's about how the technology we use every day is not designed to benefit us as humans – and about what we can do to try and change that. Please subscribe!
Amplification, Acceleration, Aggravation: How Social Media Rips Us Apart
Remember the days when there was nothing more boring than listening to someone else describe their dreams or, worse, a drug trip? We were so young and innocent then. Now we have to listen to people try and explain a meme or drama on the internet. Subscribe to Meets Most
Maybe Stop Being a Dick
About 15 years ago, I worked for a tiny little startup in the connected car space. The startup manufactured a little device that you could plug into your car's OBD2 port and use to connect to your phone. What, you may be asking, is an OBD2 port? Great
You Are Inventory
Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we can tell about the dot-com bubble and subsequent crash: 1. overvalued startups and out-of-control speculation, 2.
Algorithmic Beef
Depending on the various internets you inhabit, you may not yet be aware that another virulent Twitter (please don't make me call it X) fight erupted last night between rap superstars Nicki Minaj and Cardi B. To be honest, depending on the various internets you inhabit, you may
Suffer Through It
Since only one person took me up on my offer to wax rhapsodic about the ludicrousness of HBO's The Gilded Age, I will (sadly) turn my attention back to tech. Let's see, what to discuss this week. Oh right. Did you know that Elon Musk'
We Are The Internet
When I sit down to write a newsletter these days, it can sometimes feel a little ridiculous. There is just so much happening all the time, in every direction, and so much of it is bad. What's the point of writing about tech the way I do, from
What's On Your Mind?
The relentless cold finally broke here in New York, and the past few days have been nothing short of glorious. As much as I don't love winter, I do love the visceral, almost primal appreciation I have for warmth and sunshine after weeks and weeks of deep freeze
Aren't You Tired of This Yet?
A few years ago, there was a television commercial I couldn't stop thinking about. Maybe you saw it on one of the various streaming services we all pay for. Which totally makes sense, because of course I want to pay someone to show me advertisements someone else paid
The Youthquake Has Become a Youth Sinkhole
When I was in graduate school, I worked for a few years as a research assistant on a project led, in part, by my advisor. My advisor didn't care for me, in fact spent the entirety of our six years working together mispronouncing my name or failing to
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