Early Twitter employee, hired by co-founder Biz Stone to lead social innovation; the first Twitter employee to write a book about the platform.
80 articles · 7 books they recommend
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
In 2000 Manhattan, a young woman tries to sleep away a year on prescription pills.
You are the awareness watching your thoughts and feelings, not those thoughts.
Also recommended by: Daniel Gross, Mel Robbins, Naval Ravikant and 1 other
| The NYT Book Review’s Big Fall Book Preview: All 31 books + What I’m Most Excited About | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2026-09-12 |
| What I read: Books 77 - 99 of 2026 | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2026-09-01 |
| To Fuel the Feast: The Rise of Influencer Substack and On Not Saving Substack from Itself | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2025-05-03 |
| The 8 best books of 2025 (so far)... | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2025-04-13 |
| Do You Really Want to Move to Italy? | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2025-03-30 |
| The 67 (!) best articles to help you grow your Substack | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2025-02-15 |
| My 12 Favorite Books of 2024 (and how I read 137 of them!) | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2025-02-02 |
| motherhood, mental health, and my luxurious voice: things i clicked on in January | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2025-01-19 |
| bed rot, a scary world, and the toast of New York: things I clicked on in December | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-12-14 |
| cupcakes for sad people: memes to get through the week | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-11-08 |
| Why it's Time to Stop Talking About Screentime | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-10-02 |
| What I Clicked on in August | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-09-01 |
| the weird way I'm using Substack to grow the hell up | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-08-27 |
| only martyrs finish all their books | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-07-28 |
| What I Clicked on in July (Best Reads, Links & Listens) | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-07-14 |
| This is your permission to give up on a dream | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-07-07 |
| Substack Growth Tips for People Who Hate Substack Growth Tips | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-06-29 |
| 7 Writers, Agents and Industry Insiders Tell You Why You Should Publish a Book (plus some unusual industry tips) | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-06-12 |
| Best Reads, Links & Listens | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-06-04 |
| I've read 50 books in 2024. These were the best. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-05-21 |
| How to Increase Your Paid Subscribers: The Best Substack Growth Tips of the Month | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-05-14 |
| Big News: This is the 40% off lifetime sale of this newsletter! | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-05-14 |
| Parenting in the United States is broken. Can Argentina help us fix it? | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-05-09 |
| Different Paths to Substack Success: The Best Substack Tips of the Month | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-05-01 |
| How 9 Successful Substack Writers Have Grown their Substacks | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-04-25 |
| Can you stick around long enough to tell your story? | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-04-19 |
| The Best Books on Writing | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-04-08 |
| The Best Things on the Internet You Missed: March. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-03-27 |
| I re-read 3 of my favorite novels of all time. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-03-21 |
| February Internet Rabbits (Links) | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-03-05 |
| how to feel better about feeling bad | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-02-27 |
| How to Read 100 Books this Year (or hit any reading goal) | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-02-20 |
| The 19 Best Books I Read in 2023 | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-02-13 |
| Not a true hermit | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2024-02-08 |
| 11 things consumed in a fugue | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2023-11-29 |
| your face when people call you a hamster | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2023-11-22 |
| the queen is in check | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2023-09-09 |
| all my feral ways | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2023-06-27 |
| it's a little fast. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2023-02-12 |
| if there are no cows | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2023-02-02 |
| the internet, but for insane people | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2022-12-09 |
| network effects but with wolves | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2022-08-24 |
| the music endures until now! | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2022-05-24 |
| currently hiring for the creation of a dumpster fire emoji (FOR GENERAL USE) | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2022-04-14 |
| behold the day for the woman | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2022-03-08 |
| I did a bad thing, Tony. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2022-01-24 |
| my NFT-related mini fight, and other reality distortion fields | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2022-01-04 |
| the desire is being created. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-12-16 |
| bye bye, ugly. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-12-02 |
| we used to be gods | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-11-16 |
| cow releasing ahead of the rapture | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-11-08 |
| i believed my heart and my heart was wrong | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-10-12 |
| in the end, we're never NOT just a surname | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-09-09 |
| life be hard | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-09-02 |
| let's play vaccination | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-08-13 |
| a little too rich for monday | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-08-02 |
| no really, i forgot about you. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-07-20 |
| ugh, etc. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-05-28 |
| i dare you to try and pry these sweatpants out of my cold, dead hands | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-04-20 |
| i'm locked inside, homeschooling your grandkids | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-03-29 |
| me neither, pepe! | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-03-10 |
| Has anyone, ever, been charmed by an American accent? | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-02-25 |
| still a cat. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-02-15 |
| low-level brooding | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-01-30 |
| it didn't have to be this way | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-01-11 |
| Your Paid Stuff Paywall | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-01-05 |
| let's pretend that never happened. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2021-01-04 |
| after all, the woodpecker never said he was a hummingbird. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-12-14 |
| on finding the wherewithal to just sit there... | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-12-03 |
| we got covid and no one sent me chocolate | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-11-20 |
| i don't think you're allowed to do that with cleaning products | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-10-24 |
| aren't you glad i wrote this in advance? | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-10-15 |
| from one globe-trotting, multi-hyphenate polymath to another... | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-10-08 |
| surprise! you are now enrolled in shit-show university. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-10-01 |
| whose octopus is this really, anyway? | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-09-23 |
| i have misplaced all the devils | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-09-17 |
| new avatar, who dat. | No, Totally with Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Newsletter issue | 2020-09-11 |
| I believe that #BlackLivesMatter. | Medium | Blog post | 2020-06-03 |
| Why True Innovation Depends on Resilience. (Calling all stories from Resilient Innovators!) | Medium | Blog post | 2019-06-12 |
| Why Growth Leadership is Key to Lasting Success | Medium | Blog post | 2019-05-08 |
| Q&A: Claire Diaz-Ortiz, the Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter Paywall | WIRED | 2012 |