An extremely introspective and thorough account of my personal organization strategy: one big Google Sheet. This story racked up tens of thousands of readers and relatively high “time spent on page” numbers. It also caused a girl who ghosted me to reach out and sparked talks about optioning the IP for a TV show. (Nothing every worked out with either of those two things.)
A spotlight on one of my favorite things on the internet, a cartoon web series called “People Watching.” Through two ten-episode seasons, the show has built up a dedicated cult following. In an attempt to crack the code of what turned YouTube commenters into sobbing, emotional wrecks, I interviewed the show’s creator, Winston Rowntree.
An interview with the social media specialist for the US Consumer Public Safety Commission, otherwise known as the government agency with the best memes. Hours after this story was published on Digg, another publication copied my reporting and churned out there own version of the post, which I considered to be a flattering form of plagiarism.
During summer 2018, I planned Digg’s first ever theme week, and this was my contribution. It’s a personal essay about my relationship to a weird browser game. I interviewed the games creator and other fans to try to answer one big questions: how exactly does the cookie crumble?
I reviewed a bizarre internet mixtape comprised entirely of remixes to the Grammy-winning song “Smooth.” It was a bizarre internet adventure, but it was fun and performed fairly well for a Friday afternoon. After the piece went up, the creator of the mixtape (a mysterious music producer named “Jetski”) reached out by email to say that I “got” the point of the project. That felt like a victory.
