Essay Club: May'25

Loop #8

Below you’ll find links, meeting times, streaks, and who’s working on what. This page will be pinned in all our calendar events. I’ve tagged everyone who filled out our Google Form, but consider subscribing to the “Essay Club” section in your account settings to ensure you get these each month.

Meeting times:

Live feedback exchanges:

Look out for calendar invites. I recommended you bring a draft for live feedback (these events work as a good forcing function). But I can also (a) pair up people for discussion, and (b) create a focused writing room. Make sure you join the calls before :10 after!

Writing gyms:

We also have writing gyms on Mondays at 5pm ET. These are typically 55 minutes focus sessions, but depending on the group that day, we’ll sometimes experiments with prompts and structured exercises.

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Published in April ‘25:

This is where I’ll keep a running list of who published last loop. You’ll see a number next to each name which denotes a streak. You get +1.00 for reaching the goal you set out on time, +0.75 if you’re late, and +0.50 for publishing anything (with a public URL). If you miss a month, your counter resets to 0. If you publish your last month’s goal late, DM me and I can update below.

Streaks:

• Becky Isjwara (6.0): 1,000 True Friends;

• Lily (5.0): Are You There God? It’s Me, Lily;

• Coco Liu (5.0): Helsinki, the Midnight Sky;

• Camilo Moreno-Salamanca (4.5): Spring: A photo essay;

• Nat Lee (4.5): Confessions of a Substack addict : I’ve been scrolling, not reading;

• Karena de Souza (4.5): A LinkedIn hack my teens used for career exploration;

• Aayush Naik (4.0): Poetry #2: Recursive Tendencies;

• Gairik Sachdeva (4.0): “Where are you from?”;

• Rose (3.5): How to not vibecode yourself in the foot;

• Ines Lee (3.0): Our modern obsession with freedom;

• Claire Butler (2.0): Bottoms-up GTM: It’s more than magic;

• Sam Woods (2.0): True Judgment: Making Decisions With Too Many Choices;

• Charlie Becker (1.5): We don’t have time; we are time;

• Jenny Scott (1.0): Brian Patten: “My heart was like a firefly; it moved / through the darkest objects laughing”;

• Paz Pisarski (0.5): Win 2 Free Places in CHAOS;

Our publishing score: 48% (15 of 31 published / down from 60%).
Our weighted score: 42% (13 of 31 / down from 55%).

Everything below this point is locked for the members of Essay Club.