HeyJaredPost-Mortem by Emi Nietfeld
Emi Nietfeld, former software engineer turned writer, dissects her successes, failures, and shenanigans for your learning and entertainment.
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Meet the Woman Behind America’s Anti-Surrogacy Backlash (opens the original)
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I first learned about Emma Waters in early 2024, after the first pro-natalist conference NatalCon. My PhD student friend attended and told me about the poised, put-together, baby-toting analyst from the Heritage Foundation who stood out as a voice of reason compared to the Musk-inspired Technatalists.I’ve been following Waters ever since. I was struck by her politeness, how quick she is to engage with people who hold opposing viewpoints, how adept at winning over hearts (if not minds) with kindn
How I Landed a Journalism Job in 2026 (opens the original)
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Whose Babies Are These? (opens the original)
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If you’ve seen me in the last 13 months, you’ve heard me talk about the triplets. Last July, I started talking to a surrogate in Florida who had triplets for a Chinese man who, she said, fell off the face of the earth. This story has made me jolt awake in the night dozens of times. It’s had me praying in church and lighting candles for Christopher, the smallest triplet who died at nine months old. It’s taken me to Zoom court and St. Augustine, Florida and Atlanta and 10 days in Southern Californ
Writing about Gen Z ambition gave me an existential crisis - and changed my life. (opens the original)
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This spring, the New York Times asked me to go interview the Class of 2026 and figure out: how is ambition different now than when I graduated a million 11 years ago? “Sure!” I said. “Sounds fun!” I did not expect talking to a bunch of college students to launch me into a full-blown existential crisis. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/opinion/gen-z-ambition-millennials-career.html?smi
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