Alex Rainert

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a monthly-ish newsletter for curious people. It should take less than 5 minutes to read and give you something that piques your curiosity.  It's been a few months since I wrote one of these - unusually busy end to last year. But January feels like a fresh start, and I'm back. With everything feeling like it's tearing at the seams right now, I've been leaning into a small and simple practice I found in this Merlin Mann post from last year: noticing when things are

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a weekly-ish lets call it monthly newsletter for curious people. It should take less than 5 minutes to read and give you something that piques your curiosity.  It’s been a while since the last newsletter. I blame the always‑crazy, post-Labor Day, back‑to‑school madness that is September. I felt moved to write as today the sun has officially set on a product that defined a distinct four‑year chapter of my career. I spent a total of seven years at The New York Times

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a weekly-ish newsletter for curious people. Each issue should take between 5 and 10 minutes to read. Oh boy. The craziness of the last month of school and summer has resulted in an unintended hiatus from writing this newsletter. Between the kids finishing school and getting them off to camp, a 10 day trip to San Sebastian (a truly wonderful place that I would recommend to anyone) with our son and his travel soccer team to play in a tournament called The Donosti Cu

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a weekly-ish newsletter for curious people. It should take less than 5 minutes to read and give you something that piques your curiosity.  For those tuning in after last week where I shared that I was running for our local school Board of Education along with some reasons why, I’m thrilled to report that I won one of the two seats and will be starting my three year term on July 1st 🎉 I'm grateful to all the people who helped me make it happen - hosting a lawn si

Hello everyone! For those keeping score at home, this "weekly-ish" newsletter has been dormant the past ~4 weeks. The reason for that is that after weighing it the past 2 years, this year I decided to throw my hat in the ring and run for one of two seats on our local Board of Education. Since making that decision in mid-April, it's been a 4-week sprint of a campaign where I've had to learn a lot, stretch myself, create signs, flyers and a simple webpage, and all that has taken up almost all of