Notebook Dump

Elegy for a Type of Guy

What if you were really good at something and nobody cared?

Oct 9 • 

Harry Cheadle

12

6

September 2025

A Machine That Shows You Things You Hate

How the internet works

Sep 15 • 

Harry Cheadle

7

3

So when is a robot supposed to take my job, exactly?

Why I'm not worried about AI replacing journalists

Sep 7 • 

Harry Cheadle

2

2

February 2025

Should Democrats Be a Little More Like Elon?

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

Feb 10 • 

Harry Cheadle

5

1

Who Said You Couldn't Say That?

Thoughts on the anti-woke ascendency

Feb 3 • 

Harry Cheadle

2

January 2025

The Bernie Sanders Movement Is Finally Dead

When will the left admit it?

Jan 27 • 

Harry Cheadle

56

71

Write for Free: A Bleak Little Manifesto

Putting the "free" back in freelancing

Jan 19 • 

Harry Cheadle

13

4

December 2024

November 2022

What good is "the news"?

“I had been paying attention to the news for decades... and I never did anything with it.”

Nov 20, 2022 • 

Harry Cheadle

5

The internet was better when it was worse

Death to social media, death to the monoculture.

Nov 6, 2022 • 

Harry Cheadle

3

Too many thoughts on the war against Twitter 'blue checks'

Unpacking the petty, public feud between journalists and tech people.

Nov 3, 2022 • 

Harry Cheadle

3

October 2022