Nick Catucci

3 weeks ago | gq.com | Nick Catucci

In April 2020 I started a new job, working remote from an apartment on the outskirts of brownstone Brooklyn that my family and I had just moved into. I promptly came down with COVID and spent the recommended number of days isolating in a bedroom; my wife had to scoop up my daughter—who would celebrate her first birthday at the end of April, smearing her face with cupcake while our extended family watched over Zoom—whenever she tried to crawl in and say hi.

4 weeks ago | embedded.substack.com | Nick Catucci

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Some weeks, we quiz a “very online” person for their essential guide to what’s good on the internet. Today we welcome Karen Hao, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal who now writes for The Atlantic and leads a Pulitzer Center program that trains journalists on how to cover AI.

2 months ago | embedded.substack.com | Nick Catucci

Some weeks, we quiz a “very online” person for their essential guide to what’s good on the internet. Today we welcome Noah Kulwin, a writer, journalist, and co-host of the history podcast Blowback. Blowback’s most recent season, about the US and the rise of the Khmer Rouge, is out now; the show’s sixth season, the story of Angola, debuts later this year.

2 months ago | embedded.substack.com | Nick Catucci

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Some weeks, we quiz a “very online” person for their essential guide to what’s good on the internet.

Mar 28, 2025 | embedded.substack.com | Nick Catucci |Noah Smith |Matthew Yglesias |Alice Evans

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Some weeks, we quiz a “very online” person for their essential guide to what’s good on the internet. Today we welcome Derek Thompson, a staff writer at The Atlantic and host of the news podcast Plain English. He is also the co-author, with Ezra Klein, of Abundance, a new book that has engendered a torrent of discourse about YIMBYism and the pathforward for the Democratic party.