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!
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
Everyone is Talking and No One is Listening
When was the last time someone listened to you? I mean really listened, in a way that made you feel understood and valued. When you could say "I feel heard" and really mean it? If you're as online as I am, you might have said "
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
The Great Validation Pact
Many, many years ago, I read a novel called Fool on the Hill. It's by Matt Ruff, whom you may know better as the author of Lovecraft Country, the novel that was optioned for the HBO series. Fool on the Hill was Ruff's first novel, which
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?
Out of Office Message
I took Tuesday and Wednesday off this week to go watch tennis and not think or write or do anything productive. My brain – maybe like your brain – has felt like sludge the past few weeks (months??), overloaded and overtired with too much information and bad news, too many opinions and
Surely You Can't Be Serious
You may have heard the news that Microsoft recently shoved its Copilot AI tool into Excel by creating the =COPILOT() function. I'm going to be honest with you: Up until three hours ago, I knew almost nothing about this, and even now I still know almost nothing about
A Matter of Volume
Last August, something very important happened: I started listening to novels by Anthony Trollope. You might not think that "started listening to novels by Anthony Trollope" would be a major life event, but you would be wrong. Or at least you should be wrong, because I have personally
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