May 6This Is Not A Personal Finance Column, Part 4This one is all about my 401ks. — Something we have long-established in this corner of the internet is a simple idea: I’m really bad with money. Longtime, non-judgmental followers know that I will wait six years to cancel a Planet Fitness membership solely because I don’t want to go to Union Square and do it, or will…Personal Finance5 min read
May 3You Deserve The Dignity Of A Stable JobWithout anyone in your industry sneering at you while you get laid off. — Digital journalism: What’s not to love about it? The pay is medium to bad. If you’re not one of like 4 chosen people at any given outlet your job likely does not contain a lot of promise of upward mobility. Your publication, and everyone else’s, has likely existed for the…4 min read
Apr 26You Only Need to Make One Ramp Meal This SpringI will be honest! I did not know what ramps were until a few years ago when I saw them at the Prospect Park farmers market, nor did I understand them to be the name of a food product until then. Here is a definition of ramps from a 2015…Ramps5 min read
Apr 18Cautionary Tales and Some Light Counter-programming on This Week of April 20I am not sure I actually like the experience of getting high; if I do it successfully it sends me to sleep for eight hours, but at its worst it makes me insanely anxious. Not usually a lot of upside. But because I have the memory of a goldfish and…4 min read
Apr 17My Ode to KALLAXThe piece of IKEA furniture that has seen it all — On Labor Day Weekend 2014 I had just moved into an apartment off of the Halsey J stop in Bushwick, Brooklyn, after spending the summer in a still-sort-of-wrecked-by-Hurricane-Sandy Rockaway Park, Queens, in my mom’s cousin Ed’s apartment a block from the ocean. I commuted every day that summer from the…4 min read
Published in Debugger·Apr 9My Frivolous Apple Wish: Let Me and My Friends Leave Better Voice MessagesIf only there were a way for a trillion-dollar tech company to improve this experience — I have group chats with different groups of friends (brag!). There’s one with my two best friends; another with two friends I introduced to each other right before the pandemic, thereby unintentionally creating a triad bonded to each other through whatever happened in 2020 and everything after; one with my…Apple5 min read
Mar 28Five Days in CopenhagenFive work days is somehow both not enough time in a new city and almost too much time, at the same time. — Last week I went to Copenhagen, Denmark. It was my first time traveling outside the country since the trip I took to Italy with my friends Corey and Amanda in 2018, a vacation booked when at least two-thirds of us were in the throes of romantic angst. On that trip…Copenhagen6 min read
Mar 14I Trawled The Depths Of Google And All I Got Was This Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie RecipeIt is not a secret to anyone who has followed me here for some length of time that cooking and baking serve a functional and therapeutic purpose in my life — I grew up cooking dinner for my family when my mom worked late at night when I was in…Baking4 min read
Mar 7How to Find an Apartment in New York, in This EconomyThe TLDR answer, unfortunately, involves losing your mind — Not sure if you’ve heard, but it’s a pretty bad time to be looking for an apartment, an apparently increasingly scarce commodity, in New York City. Due to the unfortunate confluence of factors — low inventory, people who left New York moving back to it, landlords hiking up pandemic rents…Housing6 min read
Mar 2Beware Fake SpringYou might be familiar with this scenario since it’s happened a few times already, barely days into March: You look at the weather forecast for the day, fully prepared to slink into your winter parka/sleeping bag for another day of biting cold weather. But something about this day is…different. It’s…Spring4 min read
