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Leah Reich | Meets Most

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!

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The Great Validation Pact

Many, many years ago, I read a novel called Fool on the Hill. It's by Matt Ruff, whom you may know better as the author of Lovecraft Country, the novel that was optioned for the HBO series. Fool on the Hill was Ruff's first novel, which

The Great Validation Pact
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Technology is Not the Answer

Have you ever had a dream in which you are in absolute danger, and you open your mouth to scream but nothing comes out? Or a dream in which you can hear yourself screaming but everyone around you seems completely unfazed and unaware, as if you were invisible and inaudible?

A Polaroid self-portrait double exposure in which my face is transposed over a pillow in a creepy way

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Intelligence, Incentives, and Iron Men

Twenty-two years ago I submitted the thesis for my first graduate degree. This is the same thesis I mentioned back in February, the one I wrote when I still loved critical theory and when I still thought there was a place for me in academia. Neither that love nor that

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We Just Weren't Made For These Times

A few weeks ago I went to see my favorite doctor. I have quite a few great doctors, so this is a higher bar than you might imagine it to be. For those who don't know, I have a chronic illness. The details are unimportant but it does

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The Internet Was Fun Once

If you had to pick, what would be your Golden Age of the Internet? The moment when you thought, oh my god YES, and were hooked. How long did it last? Where was it – what platform or community? What did it feel like? Who did you befriend there? Do you

The Internet Was Fun Once