Zak Jason
@zakjason
features editor, @businessinsider. YOU may not be interested in absurdity, but absurdity is interested in YOU.
Hi! I’m now a deputy editor at @thisisinsider. I want to work with YOU on bold, bizarre, deeply reported, definitive, heartbreaking, delicious, can’t-put-down, big-swing narratives and big idea essays. Get at me! [email protected].
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Coldplay: 1-4 "Imagine a sturdy, comfortable walking shoe (in focus-group tested shades of beige) gently tapping on a human face — forever."
After months of heavy reporting and many heartbreaking testimonies, I’m so proud to share that my story about body repatriation in Ukraine is live for @BusinessInsider. A special thank you to my amazing editor, @zakjason businessinsider.com/business-retur…
"People aren't defending just Maguire, the executive said. 'They're defending the privatization of western defense. They are defending the privatization of global citizens data in the form of Palantir and the massive ICE budget. That's what this debate is obscuring.'"
I wrote about venture capitalist Shaun Maguire, his accusations that Zohran Mamdani is a "secret Islamist," and his emergence as a leading right wing voice in the tech industry. businessinsider.com/shaun-maguire-…
"In the era of the internet, if you have to go to college, it is probably because you're mediocre."
my bi discourse debut, inside silicon valley's anti-college movement, w incredible edits from @zakjason. 6/6 businessinsider.com/gen-z-tech-fou…
one of many surreal moments in @SilvermanJacob's must-read dispatch from the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Vegas.
Here's my report from last week's big Bitcoin conference in Vegas, where crypto's future was about MAGA and corporate balance sheets. businessinsider.com/trump-billiona…
best thing I've read so far this year. shattered and then lifted me again about 8 times over. nytimes.com/2025/05/18/mag…
“Ninety-nine percent of the people who go to college are fucking dumbwits.” businessinsider.com/gen-z-college-…
"Bannon takes his hands off his ample belly and points to his black sneakers. 'These are my prison shoes,' he tells me. 'I wear them every day.'" businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-p…
businessinsider.com/cheating-tax-r… sleep-deprived with our second kid, I cheated on my taxes last year. then I entered a surreal game of chicken with the IRS.
Just gave a reading to my 1-year-old’s daycare class and they all fucking booed me out of the room that I brought Elmo’s Pop-Up Peekaboo and not Abundance.
In dating, the job market, & beyond, many zoomers are getting rejected more often in a week than many boomers have been in their adult lives. @delia_cai goes deep on what the new scale of rejection & the rise of the ghosted generation means for all of us. businessinsider.com/gen-z-most-rej…
The children of billionaires had one weekend to give away $100 million. But first, karaoke. businessinsider.com/inside-retreat…
The discourse this week revealing once again that New York remains the best capital M Magazine in America, by a good margin.
.@BenWoffordDC with an essential exegesis on the ascension of Joel Kaplan and the shifts afoot at Meta. businessinsider.com/joel-kaplan-se…
