Leah Reich
@leahreich.com
Writer, researcher, tech industry survivor, tennis obsessive 🎾, and fortunate to live with Lumpy, the greatest cat in the universe
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Leah Reich
@leahreich.com
· Apr 23
I Think I Figured Out Why AI Sucks So Much
Did I promise to write a specific newsletter last week? Does anyone remember? (Please don't go check.) Yes, I did, and I should know better. Chris, my apologies, but I won't be writing about your comm...
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My newsletter this week:
Silicon Valley never cared about what normal people want. It solved problems the industry itself introduced.
First it made money by selling products, then by selling our data, then by selling us back to ourselves. Now it's fucked.
www.leahreich.com/i-think-i-fi...
Silicon Valley never cared about what normal people want. It solved problems the industry itself introduced.
First it made money by selling products, then by selling our data, then by selling us back to ourselves. Now it's fucked.
www.leahreich.com/i-think-i-fi...
Hello long-form nonfiction writers, esp book authors, I have maybe a dumb question:
How do you keep track of all the different threads that need to connect? Like staying focused in one section and not heading off on a tangent but remembering those threads up later and weaving them in?
How do you keep track of all the different threads that need to connect? Like staying focused in one section and not heading off on a tangent but remembering those threads up later and weaving them in?
September 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Hello long-form nonfiction writers, esp book authors, I have maybe a dumb question:
How do you keep track of all the different threads that need to connect? Like staying focused in one section and not heading off on a tangent but remembering those threads up later and weaving them in?
How do you keep track of all the different threads that need to connect? Like staying focused in one section and not heading off on a tangent but remembering those threads up later and weaving them in?
I don't know anything about football but the play Trinidad Chambliss did just now looked straight out of a movie. If football could do that all the time then it would be, in my opinion, a good sport
September 20, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I don't know anything about football but the play Trinidad Chambliss did just now looked straight out of a movie. If football could do that all the time then it would be, in my opinion, a good sport
Needs more ?!?!?!!!!!????!?!
158 MPH SERVE???????????!?
September 12, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Needs more ?!?!?!!!!!????!?!
Rennae Stubbs just referenced this gif live on air, I'm dying
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
September 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Rennae Stubbs just referenced this gif live on air, I'm dying
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
August 31, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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I'm glad @leahreich.com read this book so I don't have to. My weird theory about tech memoirs by women is that they all want to be The Devil Wears Prada, and they all fail. (I still have not read The Boy Kings of Facebook by Kate Losse, so I don't know that it's an exception, but I suspect it is.)
I know everyone hates the New York Times, but unfortunately you have to click on this anyway. It's a review I wrote about a book I did not like.
FWIW I originally wrote more criticism and less explaining, but it was not to be. Happy to say more here in a thread!
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
FWIW I originally wrote more criticism and less explaining, but it was not to be. Happy to say more here in a thread!
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
Book Review: ‘Don’t Be Evil,’ by Claire Stapleton
In “Don’t Be Evil,” Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry.
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I'm glad @leahreich.com read this book so I don't have to. My weird theory about tech memoirs by women is that they all want to be The Devil Wears Prada, and they all fail. (I still have not read The Boy Kings of Facebook by Kate Losse, so I don't know that it's an exception, but I suspect it is.)
I know everyone hates the New York Times, but unfortunately you have to click on this anyway. It's a review I wrote about a book I did not like.
FWIW I originally wrote more criticism and less explaining, but it was not to be. Happy to say more here in a thread!
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
FWIW I originally wrote more criticism and less explaining, but it was not to be. Happy to say more here in a thread!
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
Book Review: ‘Don’t Be Evil,’ by Claire Stapleton
In “Don’t Be Evil,” Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry.
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I know everyone hates the New York Times, but unfortunately you have to click on this anyway. It's a review I wrote about a book I did not like.
FWIW I originally wrote more criticism and less explaining, but it was not to be. Happy to say more here in a thread!
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
FWIW I originally wrote more criticism and less explaining, but it was not to be. Happy to say more here in a thread!
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
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Please admire his shape thank you
July 27, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Please admire his shape thank you
Please admire his shape thank you
July 27, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Please admire his shape thank you
For lunch I had a criminally underrated Top Five Treat of Summer: My first tomato sandwich of the season. Tomatoes, a little mayo (I use Kewpie), salt, white bread. For extra decadence, sliced brioche. Heaven. Do not @ me with your annoying mayo issues.
July 27, 2026 at 6:49 PM
For lunch I had a criminally underrated Top Five Treat of Summer: My first tomato sandwich of the season. Tomatoes, a little mayo (I use Kewpie), salt, white bread. For extra decadence, sliced brioche. Heaven. Do not @ me with your annoying mayo issues.
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I love @leahreich.com's newsletter, and this week's edition (instance?) ties in with stuff I have been thinking about how to build a less voracious corner of the internet:
www.leahreich.com/feeding-the-...
www.leahreich.com/feeding-the-...
July 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I love @leahreich.com's newsletter, and this week's edition (instance?) ties in with stuff I have been thinking about how to build a less voracious corner of the internet:
www.leahreich.com/feeding-the-...
www.leahreich.com/feeding-the-...
Hey fellow Gen X friends, here’s something fun for you. Who remembers those cheap black torchiere lamps everyone had? Did you know they’re now a hot item on eBay priced from $150-225 for uncanny valley 90s nostalgia reenactments that look nothing like the 90s?
July 26, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Hey fellow Gen X friends, here’s something fun for you. Who remembers those cheap black torchiere lamps everyone had? Did you know they’re now a hot item on eBay priced from $150-225 for uncanny valley 90s nostalgia reenactments that look nothing like the 90s?
Etsy suggested I might like this "abstract" metal sculpture which of course I clicked on and which of course I am sharing with all of you. I'm helpfully providing the link because I'm 100% sure one of you is going to buy it. Additional details provided in the alt text.
www.etsy.com/listing/4342...
www.etsy.com/listing/4342...
July 24, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Etsy suggested I might like this "abstract" metal sculpture which of course I clicked on and which of course I am sharing with all of you. I'm helpfully providing the link because I'm 100% sure one of you is going to buy it. Additional details provided in the alt text.
www.etsy.com/listing/4342...
www.etsy.com/listing/4342...
@niedermeyer.online did a lot of people send this to you already www.reddit.com/r/wallstreet...
From the wallstreetbets community on Reddit: Elon has ruined me
Explore this post and more from the wallstreetbets community
www.reddit.com
July 24, 2026 at 12:26 AM
@niedermeyer.online did a lot of people send this to you already www.reddit.com/r/wallstreet...
@fucktheory.bsky.social I really wish I had not gone two years without seeing your GM/Wham! article, because it is wonderful
July 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
@fucktheory.bsky.social I really wish I had not gone two years without seeing your GM/Wham! article, because it is wonderful
This text I just sent a friend kinda sums up the national mood lately
July 23, 2026 at 5:48 PM
This text I just sent a friend kinda sums up the national mood lately
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Ah, the image text description is fantastic.
Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great Wednesday. Just wanted to make sure everyone knows what a baby heron looks like. Ok bye see you later
www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/
www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/
July 22, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Ah, the image text description is fantastic.
Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great Wednesday. Just wanted to make sure everyone knows what a baby heron looks like. Ok bye see you later
www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/
www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/
July 22, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great Wednesday. Just wanted to make sure everyone knows what a baby heron looks like. Ok bye see you later
www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/
www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/
Does anyone else have the "food that is good in theory" problem? Like you see something at the store, say to yourself "I bet that's great, it's right up my street," buy it, then find you're unable to ever eat it as soon as it's in your house? Just stare at it blankly every time you open the fridge
July 20, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Does anyone else have the "food that is good in theory" problem? Like you see something at the store, say to yourself "I bet that's great, it's right up my street," buy it, then find you're unable to ever eat it as soon as it's in your house? Just stare at it blankly every time you open the fridge
My feed is 20 seconds behind, and I know this because I heard the bar across the street and 41 floors down screaming before I heard the whistle
July 19, 2026 at 10:05 PM
My feed is 20 seconds behind, and I know this because I heard the bar across the street and 41 floors down screaming before I heard the whistle
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Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world.
From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game.
Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.
From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game.
Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.
July 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world.
From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game.
Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.
From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game.
Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.
Can you imagine how good it must feel to score the goal that wins you the whole World Cup, goddamn
July 19, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Can you imagine how good it must feel to score the goal that wins you the whole World Cup, goddamn
Wait is this the only match Trump has attended in person?
THE CURSE IS STILL ALIVE
THE CURSE IS STILL ALIVE
July 19, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Wait is this the only match Trump has attended in person?
THE CURSE IS STILL ALIVE
THE CURSE IS STILL ALIVE
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This boring zero goal championship match is the universe testing all the "do Americans even like sport" guys to find how much *they* even like sport
July 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM
This boring zero goal championship match is the universe testing all the "do Americans even like sport" guys to find how much *they* even like sport
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German broadcast. Nailed it
July 19, 2026 at 8:27 PM
German broadcast. Nailed it