Hi, I'm Leah Reich.
I'm a writer and researcher working to make technology and the internet more human. I've worked for such companies as Slack, Instagram, and Spotify, and my writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Verge, The Atlantic, and other publications. You can read more about me here.
My newsletter is called Meets Most. It's about how the technology we use every day is not designed to benefit us as humans – and about what we can do to try and change that. Please subscribe!
Algorithmic Beef
Depending on the various internets you inhabit, you may not yet be aware that another virulent Twitter (please don't make me call it X) fight erupted last night between rap superstars Nicki Minaj and Cardi B. To be honest, depending on the various internets you inhabit, you may
Suffer Through It
Since only one person took me up on my offer to wax rhapsodic about the ludicrousness of HBO's The Gilded Age, I will (sadly) turn my attention back to tech. Let's see, what to discuss this week. Oh right. Did you know that Elon Musk'
We Are The Internet
When I sit down to write a newsletter these days, it can sometimes feel a little ridiculous. There is just so much happening all the time, in every direction, and so much of it is bad. What's the point of writing about tech the way I do, from
Does it Matter How the Sausage is Made?
For the first three and a half months of this year, I spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time and energy preparing to be deposed as a fact witness for a civil case against my former employer, about the harm social media does to teenagers. The specific case isn't
Technology is Not the Answer
Have you ever had a dream in which you are in absolute danger, and you open your mouth to scream but nothing comes out? Or a dream in which you can hear yourself screaming but everyone around you seems completely unfazed and unaware, as if you were invisible and inaudible?
This Medium isn't the Message
It's 7:00 pm on the 41st Wednesday of 2025, and I do not have a newsletter written. I don't even know where to begin. The content of this newsletter is meant to be tech-related, or at least to gesture at tech in some way. But
What Does Community Mean?
Last week, I had no intention of writing about open source principles, and how we might use them to build more than just software. There was something else I wanted to write about, but I wasn't quite sure how to go about it. To be honest, I'
Open Source the Revolution
Before I was a contractor at Mozilla, I'd never spent much time thinking about open source software. I knew what it was obviously, had friends who cared a lot about things like decentralized development and universal distribution and other keywords from the open source Wikipedia page. But I&
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