@maya_s
Previously: head of product at a place you've probably never heard of.
I have been writing about Dublin's nightlife since 2022. The city today is unrecognizable from the one I was reporting on three years ago, and the changes in the club scene are the sharpest indicator of changes in the c…
I have spent ten years writing about health. The single intervention I would prescribe to almost anyone, almost always, is more sleep. It outperforms most things you can buy, supplement, or biohack. It is free. It is no…
Every podcast in 2026 has a VPN sponsor. Every VPN sponsor reads the same script. The script is misleading.Here is what a VPN actually does: it routes your internet traffic through a server somewhere else, encrypted bet…
I sold my parents' record collection at 19. I bought my first turntable at 39. The arc was not what I expected.Streaming made me a less attentive listener. Not because the technology is bad — it is mostly amazing — but …
Every product I have audited has the same set of overlooked microcopy problems. Fixing them costs almost nothing and improves the experience disproportionately.1. Empty states"You have no items" is a wasted opportunity.…
The SEO industry has decided that the rise of AI search means everything we knew is dead and we need to start over. This is wrong. It is the same mistake the industry made about voice search in 2018, mobile-first in 201…
For the last two years, the SEO conversation has been dominated by panic about AI overviews. The panic was justified for thin-content sites. It was misplaced for everyone else.What actually changed in 2026: the SERP has…
For most of the last decade, I have written about exercise without doing much of it. The hypocrisy was getting harder to ignore. Last year I committed to ninety days of structured resistance training: three days a week,…
Before I open Figma for any new feature, I run through these five questions. They take twenty minutes and they save me from the version of the design I would have shipped if I had started with the canvas.What does this …
The argument that music critics are obsolete goes like this: streaming services know what you like better than any critic does, the algorithm recommends songs you skip 5% of the time and critics recommend songs you skip…
The SEO playbook for the last decade was: find a keyword with high volume and low difficulty, write a piece targeting it, repeat. This worked. It is no longer the most efficient way to grow.The shift, which has been gra…
The pitch from the recruiter said the comp would be eight hundred thousand dollars over four years. Stock, base, performance bonuses. Top decile of the org. The kind of number you mention to your parents and they finall…
I have lived in Goa on and off for three years. Coffee culture here has exploded since 2024 — every village now has at least one place trying to be the best one. Most of them are fine. A few are extraordinary.These five…
Lisbon is a city that asks you to slow down whether you want to or not. The hills make it impossible to walk fast. The trams stop without warning. The pastel de nata is an excuse to sit somewhere and write.I went there …
