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10 things I read this week - by Tara Seshan

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I’ve been working on a new project with some friends and am in the woods this week! Hope you enjoy your long weekends. “How I Got Scammed Out of $50,000”: In 2016, everyone said that the era of the personal essay was over, including the leading light of the personal essay category Jia Tolentino. The reasoning was quite sound: who cared about subjective first person experience in non-TikTok form when the world was actually suffering from a paucity of clearly reported facts? I guess the Biden era has brought us a new resurgence of our old personal essay: in the past week, we saw three huge personal essays go viral, the most notable of which is the “How I lost $50,000 to a scam” essay written in The Cut. I don’t get the virality! But the scam itself was a bit scary and made me think (me, someone who is always bait in company-wide phishing simulations) that I’m one click away from giving my bank accounts over to a scammer. In a world where scams become so excellent and tricky, how will we

10 things I read this week $50,000 scam, a reading list to investigate the meaning of life, "data contrails" Tara Seshan Feb 23, 2024 2 Share YOUQING (EUGENE) WANG I’ve been working on a new project with some friends and am in the woods this week! Hope you enjoy your long weekends. “How I Got Scammed Out of $50,000” : In 2016, everyone said that the era of the personal essay was over , including the leading light of the personal essay category Jia Tolentino. The reasoning was quite sound: who cared about subjective first person experience in non-TikTok form when the world was actually sufferin

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