Jon Eilenberg

Editor. Formerly of @wired and Red Herring.
jonjeilenberg (at) gmail (dot) com

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

@jtemperton Ugh. So sorry to hear, James. I know the feeling all too well.

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

Caitlin is a brilliant journalist and a good human. Hire her to write stories for you.

[Caitlin Harrington @caitharr]

I’m so grateful to all the workers who trusted me to tell their stories @WIRED these past few years. It’s been an honor and a thrill. I learned from the best and got to write about dogged union fights, donor-conceived family reunions, employees grappling with layoffs, and more.

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

Special thanks to @wiredunion for the ongoing support for all of the departed and for working to protect the future of those who remain. It was an honor to serve as a steward and grievance officer. ✊

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

(Heart)BREAKING NEWS: After 20 years @WIRED , I was among the group of talented editors, writers, designers, and others laid off last Thursday. I am grateful for the career I was able to build there and proud of the work we all did together.

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

Many folks have told me that they can't imagine WIRED without me. Now I'm off to imagine me without WIRED. I'm looking for full-time editorial work, with benefits.

[Steven Levy @StevenLevy]

I would humbly (not really humbly) suggest everyone re-read this for context on what happened this weekend. A big focus in this story was on the issue apparently behind the drama.

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

@johnsemley3000 I bought this at Cheap Thrills in New Brunswick, NJ, based solely on their name and the album art. It was not what I was expecting—who could expect that?!—and blew my 18-year-old mind.

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

You can't force a meme.

[Lexi Pandell @lpandell]

In her twenties, Patricia Moore went undercover as a woman of 85. Her discoveries transformed how our world is designed but, 40 years later, I learned firsthand how far we still have to go.

I profiled Moore for @WIRED: https://t.co/tDEAPZBgG8

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

And “dildo” gets me to Genius level in Spelling Bee!

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

@CATBRAINCELL

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

@thegridkid

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

I’d like to speak to the manager.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Meet Brandon Sanderson. Brandon published two books in the time it took our writer to finish this story. Brandon's fantasy writing made him $55 million last year. Brandon doesn't think he's a very good writer.

📷: Michael Friberg | https://t.co/GczMykmqeC

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

"At that first dinner, over flopsy Utah Chinese—days before I’d meet his extended family, and attend his fan convention, and take his son to a theme park, and cry in his basement—I find Sanderson depressingly, story-killingly lame." @jkehe for @WIRED https://t.co/zXtvUwhv6I

[john @johnsemley3000]

today is the big 5-0 of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW: a big, weird book that's as big and weird--bigger and weirder, even--than history itself. i wrote an appreciation of the novel, and Pynchon's clear-eyed vision of the future, which is our present, for @WIRED.
https://t.co/5n1XMzemgm

[Michelle Legro @michellelegro]

If you belong to your local Buy Nothing group, and you've noticed things have seemed a little different lately (well, weirder than people offering their old sofa stuffing), there's a good reason. 🧵

[Jon Eilenberg @jjeilenberg]

"Our own age’s greasy stew of absurdity and apocalypticism, creeping death tinged with clown-shoe idiocy, suggests a world that has finally, fatefully, caught up with Pynchon." @johnsemley3000 for @WIRED https://t.co/0WEvIUiOYP

[john @johnsemley3000]

Thomas Pynchon’s GRAVITY’S RAINBOW, which is THE American novel of the 20th century, turns fifty this month.

for @WIRED, I wrote about the book’s significance, its brilliance, and how our world has—finally, absurdly, despairingly—caught up with it. https://t.co/77pwOJMC8x