Good morning everyone. I want to publish a longer response to yesterdayās letter and give you guys my thoughts and concerns about Substackās audio and video push, but Iām in a sprinter van on a press trip and I want to spent a little more time on it. So Iāll write it later this week. There are some new jobs on the Feed Me job board.
And a teaser of the Bachelorette Parties are Hell letter coming later this week for paid subs:
āBahamas, 8 girls in an Airbnb walking distance from beaches and the big hotel thatās not Atlantis. Drama ranged from managing expectations around finances as the maid of honor to some of our friends being driven to the other side of the island to buy drugs from a guy carrying a shotgun. Ah memories. Overall it was an amazing trip and everyone had a great time but took some massaging.ā
NEWS:
Jack Dorsey left the board of Bluesky. He is now embracing X, the company he founded, as āfreedom technology.ā This old clip of him that I always liked is going around.
Sweetgreen quietly took arugula off their menu. Just kidding, itās not quiet, influencers are freaking out. Hannah Chody asked an employee about the move, and the employee told her that arugula is actually their third most popular salad base. Another employee from Sweetgreen said arugula was too expensive. Apparently they also got rid of olives, salami, red onion, and chipotle crema.
The death of a Bank of America associate has sparked a conversation across Wall Street over working conditions. Leo Lukenas III, a former Army soldier, left military service and joined BofA last year to "pursue new opportunities for his family.ā Inside BofA, the death has prompted a swift, concerned reaction and a raft of questions, particularly among the junior ranks, according to current and former investment bankers who spoke to Business Insider. "It got to a point where I would wake up and immediately feel like I needed to throw up," one employee told BI. "My mental health was really bad. I felt very unsupported by my team."
I got a bar of the new Soft Services Green Banana Buffing Bar at a party last night and used it this morning. I love it. I was scared it would smell like Laffy Taffy or something, but itās actually quite green, crisp and wet which felt good on a rainy morning like today. Iāve been a Soft Services customer from day one, and the closest Iāve come to the buffing bar was laying on that exfoliation table at the hammam I wrote about last week.
Graza team, please donāt get mad at me. Ā But I found the new product youāre launching tomorrow listed online. Itās aā¦