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At the tender age of 32 I have learned that the people who require the most "convincing" have added the least to my life personally and professionally.
Rupert Murdoch has the once in a lifetime opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
My life has significantly improved since I stopped giving away my expertise for free in group chats, panels and 1:1’s with people who have more access to capital than me.
"I no longer identify as an ambitious person. I identify as a person who wants to make the life that they can scrape together as comfortable as possible."
Today is proud to publish a long read by . Think of it as both memoir and manifesto.
"I spent so long thinking that everyone knew and nobody cared that I did not realize the inverse was true—nobody knew and everyone cared."
Intense, insightful read on Werner Herzog, Timothy Treadwell, and abusive relationships.
80,000+ impressions on Bad Waitress. We are having our best traffic week ever.
Ozempic trying to stop me from reading a 250-page novel about downwardly mobile WASPs in one sitting
You’re waiting for her to text you back. I’m waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
If you wrote for Byline for free and you would like to publish your piece on Dirt I will pay you a $100 syndication fee on acceptance.
Get in touch daisy[at]dirt[dot]fyi
Writers have gotten way too comfortable talking about how jealous they are of other writers. Real vibe killer, save it for therapy.
It's fifth date season. 🙌
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"Storm King will be closed from March 20–31 as we prepare for our season opening on Saturday, April 1."
Why do packages look like websites, and is this bland state of affairs shifting?
we insisted on taking a photo in the style of art gallerists that exclusively cater to war criminals
I loved talking to Geoff Rickly () about Italo Calvino and the architecture of his new novel: "Anyone who’s ever gotten what they wanted has understood that the desire was where the power was."
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I’ve turned down more opportunities in the last 6 months than I was offered in the previous two years and it’s because people with power show respect by writing a check.
Ben wore his DIRT hat to my 10-year college reunion and any time someone asked what I was doing he would point to it and say “this is her company” 🥲
If I go to your party and you aren't doing this I will take over your event.
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What factors make someone an ideal guest? @daisandconfused shares how to be a good guest both online and IRL:
dirt.fyi/article/2023/0
This is the first photo Ben ever took of me. I think we had been dating for about 2 weeks. ❤️
I have 23,000 users, 55% are daily active users, and I ship 5 products a week with a full-time team of two.
It is indisputable that the next wave of luxury brands will be media companies. The culture has caught up but the capital has not.
eventually you too will get bored of making your apartment nicer and become interested solely in public vulnerability
thinking about the NYU professor(?) that refused to comment for a Dirt piece because they don't agree with our business model...academics are so unserious
my love language is gently prying the book out of your hands when you fall asleep reading while simultaneously making sure you don't lose your spot
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No check for me? No upside for you. Get lost.
everyone wants the prestige of a media company with the obligations of a zine
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really obsessed w/ the concept of "creative forward" magazines (writing is bad)
we tell ourselves stories in order to live 🤍
RIP Jorge Luis Borges you would have loved the infinite Starbucks gift card
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i don’t want to jinx it by telling the world but i can’t keep this secret any longer. ive had a starbucks gift card with $12.51 on it for 3 years now. i use it and the balance does not change. i wonder if starbucks will ever catch on
I'd jump off a bridge before asking a writer to work for free in 2023
Today is Bloomsday, but more importantly, it’s my three year wedding anniversary.
People keep asking me "how I am doing" during the "bear market". Would you ask a cockroach how they are doing during a nuclear fallout? No, you wouldn't, because you would be dead and they would be alive.
Sometimes I get pitches with NYT clips attached, Monday's essay was submitted under a pseudonym with the note "I'm Amelia K...I don't have social media."
It's one of the best things we've ever published.
“Sam Levinson and his co-creator Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye don’t seem to realize that the mere display of gratuitous sex and nudity is not erotic. Of course, I don’t expect them to have the intellectual acuity to distinguish between the two.”
The smart take I needed on why everyone is rewatching Girls, and of course it is from !
Alternately, you can go to Montreal where multiple waitresses lavished my husband with attention and then asked if we wanted separate checks.
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being in a relationship where we step outside and strangers tell us we’re a beautiful couple is actually top tier like yes
My type is men that identify with the film Rushmore, no I will not elaborate.
Don’t be weird to me. I’ll be ten times weirder to you and you won’t like it.
I love when investors are like “how do you convince people to write for Dirt?” What do you mean convince?? 😭
Dirt is for tastemakers and originals only, and that includes investors.
DON'T get in touch if:
1. you haven't updated your definition of media since 2003
2. you have to ask "who else is in the round?"
3. you think going to conferences is thought leadership
I’ve done two interviews this month. One interviewer asked me if I have experience working in media halfway through the interview, the other said I made the hair on his neck stand up.
We’re so back.
Maya was the first person to invest in Dirt at our current valuation. I talk to her almost every day. She isn't just an advocate and investor, she's a fantastic friend. So rare when you're trying to do something that has never been tried before. theguardian.com/business/2023/
yeah sex is cool but have you ever been the one to tell someone that Grimace is a giant taste bud
Yup, that's headlining Axios Crypto today. A big bet for big thinkers. Is that you? Get in touch.
I woke up and chose taste.
does anyone have the definitive answer for why apple's weather app is decreasing in accuracy
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A lot of VCs are right now at cognitive overload
There’s no need to be sympathetic (at all), but it’s something to be aware of when you see VCs acting … differently
Here’s what’s happening:
Surprised nobody has pitched me this.
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feel like a vice story from a decade ago would be someone taking acid and going to barbenheimer
Today is introducing The Dirt Review of Dupes!
Edited by and illustrated by .
