Read Max is proud to be at the forefront of decadal studies for the 21st century maxread.substack.com/p/what-were-th…

"There is lots of delusion in this book. There is also a little bit of rivalry. But I have to be honest. I do not think there are any geniuses." washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/…

"Peretti messaged often with Zuckerberg and made 'a habit of cultivating the mid-senior-level Facebook employees'... which meant he had some say in the sorting mechanisms that could bestow publishers with life-changing amounts of traffic." washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/…

"Given this state of affairs it’s hard not to feel like 'Traffic' is making an inadvertent but compelling case that Gawker and BuzzFeed were, in the grand scheme of things, not particularly important." By Read Max washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/…

This is a really good idea. Someone should do this. nytimes.com/2020/12/13/bus…

New ep! This week, we welcome back our friend Read Max for an anniversary chat. We unpack the labor and education dimensions of of A.I. ascendancy and get Max’s inside perspective on the WGA strike. goodbye.substack.com/p/ai-wga-strik…

max's substack, maxread.substack.com, is the best ongoing commentary for AI out there right now. Always finds something interesting and mostly avoids the "are we doomed" or "is this bullshit" binary

This week on Hard Fork: • What's fueling the Reddit revolt? • Max Read on MrBeast • Was trust and safety a zero-interest-rate phenomenon? nytimes.com/2023/06/16/pod…

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Reddit revolts. Plus: Read Max joins to to discuss what we can learn from Mr. Beast. And we debate whether trust and safety was a ZIRP nytimes.com/2023/06/16/pod…

This is a great feature by Read Max in the new issue of New York Magazine about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

This week, New York Magazine published a very good feature story on low-grade AI-created content taking over the Internet and making it worse. It’s about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

New York magazine is the last great magazine because of the incredible work its staff puts in week after week. They deserve to be paid fairly!

Unpopular Front is going on vacation! But I will be streaming live later today with Read Max. unpopularfront.news/p/time-off