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# Modest Operations | Newsletter Volume 26
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/modest-operations-newsletter-volume-26/
- Published: 2019-05-28T20:23:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-13T22:24:44.000Z
- Description: Modest Operations email newsletter Volume 26 (May 28, 2019).
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: deadspin, jezebel, n+1, the new yorker, anna wiener, drew magary, hazel cills, modest operations, newsletter, the editors, #import-mailchimp-2026-09-13

Back after a week away, and excited about the spring / early summer feeling in the air.

Hope you had a great (hopefully) long weekend, and have a great week.

**This Week's Links** *A list of things I've been reading & thinking about.*\* "Throughout, he has taught a sustained master class in conversational redirection and opacity." - [Jack Dorsey’s TED Interview and the End of an Era (Anna Wiener for *The New Yorker*)](https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/jack-dorseys-ted-interview-and-the-end-of-an-era?ref=drewshannon.net) \* "I also hope you are loved and that you love others, and that you have a crew to smuggle Kettle Chips and fresh bagels and bibimbap into the hospital as needed, because all that love and all those foodstuffs saved my life." - [The Night The Lights Went Out (Drew Magary for *Deadspin*)](https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-night-the-lights-went-out-1834298070?ref=drewshannon.net) \* "The hunger some entrepreneurs have for unnecessary disruption can lead to widely mocked results, from complicated juicing machines that can be replicated by hand to Rogaine rebrands." - [At UNTUCKit, Clothes Make the Man, and the Man Needs Help (Hazel Cills for *Jezebel*)](https://jezebel.com/at-untuckit-clothes-make-the-man-and-the-man-needs-he-1833978437?ref=drewshannon.net) \* "This is why we love podcasts: they are the internet for our ears. Now we can be on the internet all the time." - [Friends of the Pod (The Editors for *N+1*)](https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/the-intellectual-situation/friends-of-the-pod/?ref=drewshannon.net)