Karl Fogel

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Two pieces of great writing came over my transom recently (that sounds so much better than "showed up in my feed", right?). The first was by my friend @ninapaley -- she's such a good artist that it's easy to forget how good a writer she is too:


The second was this by @willystaley in the NYT Sunday Magazine:


I'd been trying to articulate to myself the problem of being consumed by a pervasively performative online identity, and here Willy Staley went and did it.

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