Business as usual: your questions about GLP-1s, a very weird brand collab, a clutch weeknight recipe, & more consumer oddities.

A reintroduction to the author, plus a free, zippy, bullet point-y recap of what's been going on lately in this kooky consumer world.

Good morrow! Today’s newsletter is free, zippy, bullet point-y. (It’s also a little long, so you may need to read in your browser.) I’ve been writing a little less, I’ll share a bit more about why with paid subscribers in another issue or two this week. 🤍

New subscribers— somehow there are a bunch of you, many of whom found me through this piece I did with Modern Retail.

You can find a quick refresher about who I am here, where I’ve included some of my favorite (and your favorite!) things I’ve written. I spill my guts quite often about what it was like to be a founder who had to wind down and part with my business, the ugly parts of leadership, entrepreneurship, and other deeply vulnerable things— after about a year of that, I put a lot of those more vulnerable pieces behind a paywall, when I started to reach a wider audience and less of the cozy corner I’d started out writing to. That remains the case, so free subscribers get a lot of posts like this, paid subscribers get deep, dark,…