Since I'm posting on bsky today, also noting that I'm closing the applications for this role at end of week (if you're a NY-based applicant, maybe come by Littlefield on Monday and say hello??) bsky.app/profile/jasp...
@defector.com's WNBA-themed show TEN MINUTE QUARTERS is next Monday, now with Zach Zimmerman in the starting lineup! defector.com/wnbashow, code LETSGOLIBS for 10% off.
Fun backstory here. Sabs blogged about how much they hated those Grammarly commercials. The actor, Jude, turned out to be a Defector reader and was down to make this ad happen. defector.com/vindicated-a...
Defector's @jaspercwang.bsky.social on why it's ok for business owners to choose integrity over survival. With host @greenwell.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
From Bring Up the Bodies, here is Hilary Mantel's description of Thomas Cromwell's advice for working with King Henry VIII, and I genuinely think Harvard Business Review should reprint it every year as an article called "How to Manage the Unmanageable CEO"
I truly love that Defector has carved out a Reacher beat over the years, starting with this @brandyjensen.bsky.social essay that was one of the very best things we published in our first twelve months. defector.com/my-year-with...
It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...
Some fun photos from the last show:
The WNBA is back, and so is @defector.com's TEN MINUTE QUARTERS at Littlefield in Brooklyn on Monday May 18. We’ll have giveaways, games, goofs, and as always a lineup of hilarious comics. Go to defector.com/wnbashow for tickets, use code LETSGOLIBS for 10% off
Somehow a professional sports front office is poaching from @defector.com's business team, so I need to hire a new Director of Revenue. Apply here: apply.workable.com/defector-med...
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I picked up the first one, Killing Floor, after my lofty quarantine syllabus collided with the reality of being laid off and very depressed: finally time enough to read all day and absolutely no desir...
Somehow a professional sports front office is poaching from @defector.com's business team, so I need to hire a new Director of Revenue. Apply here: apply.workable.com/defector-med...
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The WNBA is back, and so is @defector.com's TEN MINUTE QUARTERS at Littlefield in Brooklyn on Monday May 18. We’ll have giveaways, games, goofs, and as always a lineup of hilarious comics. Go to defector.com/wnbashow for tickets, use code LETSGOLIBS for 10% off
Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
I covered this story for Defector because it falls under two of my beats, Amazon's Reacher News & Views and Suburban Brain Disorder. defector.com/suburban-hom...
Defector Media is a 100-percent worker-owned and -operated media company that launched in 2020. You can read about our origin story in the New York Times, the recent state of our business in our 2025 ...
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his…
For my money, the funniest recurring bit in Amazon’s highly variable action-comedy series Reacher is the use it makes of its main character’s blank, brutal sociopathy. Reacher, in Reacher, is generall...
