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Purchasehere Emi Nietfeld is a writer and software engineer. After graduating from Harvard College in 2015, she worked at Google and Facebook. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, Vice, and other publications. She lives in New York City with her family. -I read Emi’s debut work, Acceptance, with my gut clenched and my brain on fire. It’s a painful book, an important book. Nietfeld’s memoir takes us from her life as a small child with her father and mother to a life with her mother, who becomes a hoarder and is mentally ill, and without her father, who abandons Emi after her parents divorce.

Before long, nobody would gamble or bet with him. And he grew so nervous that it was pitiful. One night, after we had finished dinner, he takes out his revolver, a ’92 model, and looks at me. … [H]e says, “Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette?” When I said I had not, he told me all about it. When he was with the Russian army in Rumania, around 1917, and things were cracking up, so that their officers felt that they were not only losing prestige, money, family and country, but were being also dishonored before their colleagues of the Allied armies, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, anywhere, at the table, in a cafe, at a gathering of friends … [remove one or more bullets,] spin the cylinder, snap it back in place, put it to his head and pull the trigger.

some thoughts about the structure of work So there is this video floating around of a woman talking about her first job, and how hard it is to balance work and life. She can’t live in the city because she can’t afford to, so she has to do a lengthy commute into work. She can’t balance a social life because she is doing this lengthy commute into work. She’s fine with her job, but feels like she doesn’t have time for anything - a perfectly reasonable response to overwhelming stressors!

Welcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Southern culture offshoot of my work at Yahoo Sports. Thanks for reading, and if you’re new around here, why not subscribe? It’s free and all. Here in F&AB #44: How Coke went clear and infiltrated Russia Five Qs and a Song with Drew Magary, author, “The Night The Lights Went Out” Menus, music and life advice from a Florida sheriff The story of Coca-Cola is the story of the post-Civil War South: a tossed-off little afterthought of creation that ends up with worldwide reach and influence.

1904 was a big year for The New York Times. That year, Adolph Ochs — who bought the paper eight years earlier in 1896 — decided to move the paper’s headquarters to the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway. In honor of the paper’s new home (and in part because Ochs convinced the city to build a new subway station there that needed a distinctive name), the City of New York renamed the intersection: What was once Long Acre Square was now Times Square.

As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2024 in London on 4-5 June and SaaStr Annual 2024 in the SF Bay Area on September 10-12, we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions. Ben Chestnut CEO of Mailchimp joined us for a very open and honest discussion of the top challenges really building the #1 100% bootstrapped SaaS of all time.  At least so far. Just after this, Mailchimp was acquired by Intuit for a stunning $12 Billion.

Most of my favourite songs this year looked forward. Past the wreckage of a painful relationship, past the all-consuming nature of grief. It wasn’t just looking beyond the past either—several looked towards thrills, the thrilling idea of tossing it all out the balcony and savouring life, the thrilling idea of your new love. There’s something about the former that’s like a cool exhale, but there’s something about the latter that’s hot, sticky, and invigorating.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! In my analysis of last year’s Am Law 100 rankings, which reflected how firms fared financially in 2022, I predicted that 2023 was “not going to be good” for Biglaw. I took that view because 2022 was a weak year for law firms—and going into 2023, the economy was uncertain, inflation was still running high, and deal flow was weak on the corporate side.

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