Author: Mark Armstrong
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Everything I’ve Learned in 2022 (So Far)
Hi friends, I haven’t sent an update in a while so I thought I’d say hello and share a few quick notes. I’ve worked remotely for eight years now, and one of the biggest lessons I learned is that it’s critical to document your work. So with that in mind, here’s a quick recap: We…
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Everything I’ve Learned About Starting New Things…
Hello friends! It’s been a moment since I sent my last newsletter, so I wanted to share some exciting news about Ursa, a new audio company and podcast I’ve been working on with authors Dawnie Walton and Deesha Philyaw. The podcast is called Ursa Short Fiction, it’s hosted by Dawnie and Deesha, and it’s all…
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Everything I’ve Learned About Reader Funding and Paid Memberships
“There’s no right or wrong way to be autistic.”
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Eric Michael Garcia on What It Means to Be #ActuallyAutistic
“There’s no right or wrong way to be autistic.”
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Leah Sottile on Rethinking Your Journalism Mission
“Oftentimes I look at media and it feels like watching a youth soccer game.”
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Making the Leap from Media Executive to Debut Novelist
How Dawnie Walton’s career journey led her to a fictional rock duo named Opal & Nev.
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Interview with Journalist Sarah Smith on Mental Illness in America’s Jails
One of my 2018 goals is to experiment with audio, so here’s my Longreads interview with Sarah Smith, the journalist behind the must-read ProPublica story, “What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?”
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Seattle: Remote Work City
I wrote an op-ed for this weekend’s Seattle Times about Seattle’s worsening traffic, and one very simple idea for cutting the number of cars on the road each day: Let’s work from home. Telecommuting is an inexpensive way to get single-occupancy vehicles off the freeways, but it’s going to take city, county, and state leadership…
