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I have been fortunate enough to get to navelgaze, opine, and/or thought-lead on a number of podcasts.

Similarly, sometimes I or my projects are covered in the press. I find this less consequential but slightly more fun.

#26
Scale

I chatted with monetization and advertisement/sponsorship paths in emails with Stewart!

7/6/2023
#25
Hard Skills

I had a great time chatting with Anthony Hobday about Buttondown and my, ah, toxic relationship with visual design.

12/22/2022
#24
YAGNI

Matt and I started off by talking about staging servers/meshes and whether or not they're useful and worth the effort (as you might guess from the name of this podcast, my answer is a resounding "no") but then our conversation took some twists and turns and morphed into an internecine rant against Facebook unfairly and unhelpfully crystalizing all "best practices" in 2010. This one was a lot of fun!

11/7/2022
#23
Stripe Blog

In what is the silliest deployment of my name ever, I am quoted as a fervent enthusiast of Stripe's home-grown type checker for Ruby.

3/28/2022
#22
The Socialized Recluse

I chat with Tyler Weaver about newsletters as a medium, why and how I run Buttondown, and what makes a great app (or video game.)

3/23/2022
#21
Keep Going

I kvetched with DZ and Benedict about the (sometimes real, sometimes faux) dichotomy between 'foundations' and 'features', and ranted more broadly about various approaches to non-deterministic product development.

11/9/2021
#20
Workspaces

My patented double desk is featured on full display, alongside Telly and a smattering of details that reveal how big of an Apple fanboy I really am.

11/8/2021
#19
/r/SaaS

I answer a host of questions about starting and building Buttondown on Reddit's AMA platform.

6/24/2021
#18
Coding Cat

I chat about Buttondown and productivity!

6/15/2021
#17
The Los Angeles Times

I opine at length about the "oligopoly problem" plaguing newsletters (or, I guess, email writ large.)

6/14/2021
#16
Business Insider

I chatted with Kylie Robinson about why and how I built Buttondown, and what it's like to run a growing business in a very frothy market.

4/16/2021
#15
Daring Fireball

Buttondown got fireballed :)

2/26/2021
#14
Running in Production

I talk about the nuts and bolts of running Buttondown, both in terms of stack and metrics and (fun) horror stories.

2/15/2021
#13
Divinations

Spoonbill is analyzed and dissected in depth by a major business newsletter.

2/9/2021
#12
The Margins

I am blissfully name-dropped (and mistakenly referred to as "industrious"!) by Can Duruk in reference to the larger newsletter ecosystem.

11/23/2020
#11
Medialyte

I chatted with Mark Stenberg about the burgeoning "creator industry", why emails are, uh, not the perfect platform, and what I think is missing from the shift to a patronage-based economy.

9/4/2020
#10
The Top

Nathan and I talk about Buttondown's marketing approach and financial metrics.

8/18/2020
#9
Level Up

I chat about how I find time to work on my projects (and how I approach work-life balance in general.)

8/4/2020
#8
Newsletter Crew

Yaroslaw and I discuss the newsletter industry: how to choose a niche, how (and why) to monetize, and the common traits I notice across successful newsletters.

6/22/2020
#7
MintMakers

I chat about my career, how I work on projects, and tips for aspiring developers & founders.

4/10/2020
#6
The Atlantic

Buttondown's mentioned as an also-ran in the burgeoning email newsletters space. (Hey, I'll take the SEO!)

10/7/2019
#5
Productivity in Tech

I chat about how I juggle and prioritize projects and also about my love for Python.

2/11/2019
#4
Dense Discovery

Buttondown is linked (very briefly) in one of the first big traffic funnels of its early life.

2/1/2018
#3
Vox (again)

Spoonbill's first press mention.

1/28/2018
#2
Vox

Tinyletter β€” Buttondown's biggest competition in 2018 β€” was facing a lot of heat because the service had been mentioned as being sunset. I got to take advantage of this.

1/5/2018
#1
Gizmodo

My first press clipping! I built a very fun and silly Twilio app that would respond to emojis with corgi pictures and it went briefly extremely viral.

10/17/2015
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