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We are writers, culture obsessives and generally neurotic 30-somethings. We also co-host the podcast “Love to See It with Emma and Claire” (formerly known as “Here To Make Friends”), a feminist podcast about reality dating shows, rom-coms, and what they say about us all. We cut our teeth working for a decade as enterprise reporters and editors on HuffPost’s Culture, Women’s and Books desks, and you can find our work in publications like The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, MSNBC and Vice.

Thanks for visiting my Substack. I try to write things that are useful for builders — tangible tactics, mental frameworks, market musings. It’s not easy to will something into existence, so I hope whatever I’m able to share from my own experiences can be helpful on your journey. All topics here are informed by how I spend my time. By day, I help run Alloy Automation, a series A SaaS company, and by night, I consume arXiv papers, Wiki bios, design mags, nonfiction books (via Kindle), and old indie films.

Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. Never miss an update. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWE'RE NOT MEANT TO FIT IN. WE'RE MEANT TO STAND OUT. ―  SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: A DAYBOOK OF COMFORT AND JOY A writer of remarkable wisdom, warmth, and compassion, Sarah Ban Breathnach (pronounced “Bon Brannock”) has become a trusted voice to women around the world. Sarah is the author of thirteen books including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy and Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self and she is the creator of The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude.

SARATONIN is funny, silly, smart, thoughtful, weird, sexy, and many other things. It’s the place where my original writing goes, as well as recommendations for things to move you and excite you. You’ll get four issues per month. Paid subscribers get all four issues plus two exclusive extra posts (sometimes with photos/art) each month, plus occasionally other cool stuff. I’m the author of four books, as well as an actor, TV/film writer, and human who teaches writing workshops and does digital marketing.

Why should anyone care about this? Because I care about it! Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThis newsletter will be a dumping ground for all the pop culture and dating stuff I want to talk about but don’t feel like arguing for its relevancy. ncG1vNJzZmimmZi1sLjEZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmeRl7y2wA%3D%3D

Welcome to StoryWorlds, I am Junot Díaz.      By way of an introduction: I was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Central NJ, and am now a professor in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  I teach classes on creative writing, worldbuilding, and apocalyptic narratives -- but what I really do, what I really am, is a writer (a slow one, but a writer nevertheless).

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BBC News Russian is the team of dedicated BBC journalists based in London and across the world, covering news and current affairs for Russian-speakers everywhere. We’ve been doing it since 1946 - on radio, and now online. Often we get asked if our original stories could be accessed in English (Google-translate doesn’t count). So, we started this publication on Substack, to deliver the best of our journalism to you in English.

Hello! I’m Allison Gill. You may know me as Mueller, She Wrote on social media. The Breakdown is where I’ll be sharing my thoughts and analysis on the many legal woes of the former president. I’ve been following it all since I started the Mueller, She Wrote podcast in 2017, and I’ll help translate the legalese for laypeople. Allison Gill is the host and executive producer of Webby-award-winning podcasts including Mueller She Wrote, The Daily Beans, Cleanup on Aisle 45, and Jack.