Skip to content
Leah Reich | Meets Most

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!

Featured Posts

Members Public

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?

A Polaroid self-portrait double exposure in which my face is transposed over a pillow in a creepy way

Recent Posts

Members Public

What is it We're Looking For?

A couple of years ago, I fell completely and totally in love with tennis. Not playing it (yet), but watching it. For years I'd wanted to get into tennis because so many of my friends loved it, but – this is not a joke – every year at the end

a photo of a packed stadium and a tennis court, Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez in Arthur Ashe for the 2021 US Open women's final
Members Public

Beyond the Valley of the Douchebags

At the end of 2023, a friend of mine texted to ask me, "Do you like biographies? I just read the most incredible biography of J. Edgar Hoover." It says a lot about our friendship that I didn't immediately laugh at this confession, because that hasn&

Beyond the Valley of the Douchebags
Members Public

Ungamify Your Brain

As I mentioned in last week's post, I started noodling around on the topic of "ungamifying" my brain. At the time, it felt kind of dumb and boring. I worried that I was just repeating what other people were saying. But over the week I thought

Charlie Chaplin caught in the cogs of a machine he's trying to work on