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?
Hit Them Where It Hurts
Last week marked the beginning of one of the big consolidated social media trials that Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok will face this year. Some of you may remember me writing about one of these lawsuits last year, the one for which I was very nearly deposed. If you've
Bring Back Joy
Did you watch the Bad Bunny halftime show on Sunday evening? Please tell me you did. If you didn't, you missed out on one of the most joyful, life-affirming, and surprisingly intimate performances in recent memory. I've watched it multiple times now and have seen countless
The Little Things
From around 9:15 this morning until about 2:15 in the afternoon, I sat in a small and very warm windowless room with no airflow. There were four other people in the room, and none of us had expected to be there for quite that long, so some of
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