Sitemap - 2021 - The Rubesletter • by Matt Ruby (Vooza)

With astrological signs, Capricorn is the GOAT

The best newsletters I wrote this year

The weirdest holiday gift guide ever ("less is more" edition)

The weirdest holiday gift guide ever

Spotify Wrapped is way outta hand this year

15 lessons on creativity (and life) from The Beatles

America's new game show: “Tribalist or nah?”

Q&A about my comedy journey, creativity, standup advice, and more

Attacking the "woke mob" is getting tiresome. Here's a better way.

The tech world is sci-fi dorks who completely miss the point of sci-fi

We've gone from broken news to phantom news

The #1 question I get asked about ayahuasca

Heading towards the light 💡⚰️

Heading towards the light

The day the influence died

How therapy-speak turned victimhood into currency

Norm Macdonald: The eyes of a child, the words of an adult

The only algorithm that actually gets me is...

The only algorithm that actually gets me

When there’s shelf space in wrong, someone’s gonna fill it

Walking in their footsteps

Why are tech elites embracing a philosophy meant for slaves?

Clinging to hope: The power of that Afghan runway video

Hollywood and that Afghan runway video

The Greek Freak, General Hospital, and the common man

The 50 most interesting (& quick/funny) things you'll see this week

The choice is yours: Beyonce or Trump?

The disruption is not coming online

The Buddha and standup comedians agree: Life is suffering

Is shame good? An examination of whether we need to stop shame shaming.

The only things that matter when you die

Flying salt shakers of death

Flying salt shakers of death

Here's why we need to cancel Dirty Dancing

Wild Patrice O'Neal interview about the battle of the sexes unearthed

The lost Patrice O'Neal interview about the battle of the sexes

The age of the unforgiven

The age of the unforgiven

Life lessons from the Terminator

Canoe? I never saw you canoe.

I was employee #1 at Basecamp. Here's my take on the recent blowup there.

Erasing a masterpiece

I'm a standup comedian. Here's the right way to talk about politics.

"The simplest path to freedom is low overhead" and 49 more Rubyisms

Is hustle culture really ruining comedians?

Is hustle culture really ruining comedians?

Early adopter? Nah, I'm enjoying my laggard lifestyle.

We keep cancelling people from the past and yet we're still going to Disney World and driving Fords...

My mom was a liberal hippie and my dad was a Reagan Republican. Here's how they made it work.

My night with Meghan Markle and how it wound up in The Daily Mail

"TikTok Stonk Karaoke" and my other fave Clubhouse rooms

The worse the road, the better the destination: 10 travel secrets I've learned from backpacking around the world

Ted Cruz: "There's a foam party at Señor Frog’s, but after that..."

Was Ted Cruz really kidnapped by his own daughters?

The inside scoop on the Jon Stewart packet & how to get hired as a comedy writer

Wacky celeb pairings, musicians gone wild, and why I can't watch TV ads anymore

Why “the creator economy” sucks for creators

The algorithm is gonna get ya

More Me in the Monitor

69 things you need to know about now

The 10 underlying conditions of the mob that attacked the Capitol

10 hidden reasons for the Capitol mob

Then: Yes we can. Now: Coup Klux Klan.

Just how evil is Amazon? And am I awful for being a Prime addict?