Read Max

Read Max is a twice-weekly newsletter about the future by the award-winning journalist Max Read. It is an idiosyncratic and sometimes funny guide to new and forward-looking ideas, trends, and networks in tech, politics, culture, and media.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• the internet
• the tech industry
• the 90s
• deep forum lore
• action movies
• conspiracy theories
• digital culture
• the political economy of science fiction franchises

Paid subscribers receive:

• At least two newsletters every week, exploring and explaining internet culture, the tech industry, funny memes, and other artifacts of our weird new future
• A weekly roundup of reading/streaming recommendations
• Access to subscriber-only, hand-aggregated, artisanally written, fully comprehensive syllabuses/explainers on topics like Web3, the FTX collapse, and the Metaverse
• Access to subscriber-only lists of Good Movies to Stream and Good Books to Read
• Cool Read Max merchandise like this sick “Dad Thriller” long-sleeved t-shirt, while supplies last
• A sense of cosmic tranquility/well-being
• Max Read’s eternal thanks

Schedule of Read Max: Read Max comes twice weekly, more or less. Beyond that, no one can really say.

Biographical Note

Max Read is a journalist, screenwriter, editor, and the owner-operator of Read Max, a weekly newsletter guide to the future. His work concerns the weird ways the internet makes us think, feel and organize ourselves.

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