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It premieres tonight on NBC at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 27.

The Finite Scroll 009: Noticing the good, Clay Shirky on AI in education, Nine Inch Nails then and now, the perfect fry box

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

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The Finite Scroll 008: Requiem for the NYT Audio app; One Battle After Another; the AI bubble; discovering David Foster Wallace; designing a board game.

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

Oct 4

The Finite Scroll 007: Therapy is easier than ever to access; a oral history of enshittification; the risks of agentic AI; switching to Apple Music and a floating pool comes to NYC.

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

Aug 2

The Finite Scroll 006: Is pop culture worse than it’s ever been, rolling cheese, a restaurant that looks like a sketchbook and a bangin' summer BBQ mix.

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The Finite Scroll 006: Is pop culture worse than it’s ever been, rolling cheese, a restaurant that looks like a sketchbook and a bangin' summer BBQ mix.