Letters to the Editor · №2
Correspondence from the cast — plus one reader who sounds suspiciously real.
Sir — Your magazine’s first issue was, in its treatment of a certain frontier laboratory’s communications function, unkind, intemperate, and demonstrably accurate. I write only to note that I have, since publication, created the time and space to do my own exploration of the matter.
— M. M., San Francisco
Sir — Reports that I have, on five occasions, left a frontier laboratory are exaggerated. I have left a frontier laboratory only three of those times. The other two I was, technically, joining a different one.
— A. K., somewhere on the 101
Sir — Your previous issue alleged that none of our best people had taken Meta’s offer. I write to confirm this, and separately, to confirm that Meta has gotten a few great people.
— S. A., the 4-zip top half
Sir — Your characterisation of my client as “the openly-sweatered Sam Altman” is incomplete. The garment described is more properly a quarter-zip; the matter is not without distinction. I trust your next issue will reflect this.
— J. W., on behalf of a frontier laboratory · address withheld
Madam — Your previous issue ran twelve illustrated portraits. I counted three women. Two of us are characters; one is the judge. I have written to your competitors with the same observation and received, in two cases, an autoreply, and in one, an offer of a podcast appearance.
— A reader, in HR, somewhere in the FTSE 100