Alex Rainert

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a monthly-ish newsletter for curious people.

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a weekly-ish lets call it monthly newsletter for curious people.

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a weekly-ish newsletter for curious people.

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a weekly-ish newsletter for curious people.

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a weekly-ish newsletter for curious people.

Welcome to The Finite Scroll - a weekly-ish newsletter for curious people.

For people coming of age after 2010, it’s easy to assume Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are just what being social on the internet looks like.

Like many, I came into this year with the wholly unoriginal goal of majorly resetting my relationship to “content.”

This mashup trailer for the doc is 💯 It premieres tonight on NBC at 8 p.m.

Consensus reality—our broad, shared understanding of what is real and true—has shattered, and we’re experiencing a Cambrian explosion of subjective, bespoke realities.

One of my favorite 2024 listens is 99% Invisible’s Power Broker Breakdown - a podcast series that functions as a distributed book club celebrating the book’s 50th anniversary.

Recently, many government norms we’ve taken for granted as “how America works” have been exposed to be just that - norms.

Over the past year, I’ve regularly switched between the different LLMs for my day-to-day work to keep up with their evolution.

Earlier this week, I took my mom to see The Wild Robot and I loved it.

CVS certainly isn’t alone in this but my experience attempting to unsubscribe from one of their emails over the weekend made me frustrated enough to want to vent here.

Last week my son and I saw Transformers One and both really enjoyed it - and not just because I went in with pretty low expectations based on the live action Transformers movies I’ve seen.

Lenny Rachitsky has, over the past 5+ years built what I consider to be the best community and content around "Product" writ large - covering various aspects of the craft of product management, strategies for product growth and finally, and often most int…

Last week Jason Kottke shared this awesome <10 minute video on how tattoos work (hint: it’s all thanks to your immune system 🫡 ) ps: I can't get enough of how the British narrator pronounces "Ti-TOO" 🥰 🥰 While I do have a passing interest in tattoo art (h…

Stompers is a social step-counting app I've been enjoying for about a month now.

I used to LOVE blogging.

I'm working on making this little site my new home on the internet.

(originally posted on Medium) The past year working at Nucleus has been an amazing experience for me.

(originally posted on Medium) If Oprah can have a list of her favorite things, why can’t we all?

(originally posted on Medium) I hadn’t logged onto Facebook since December 2014.

(originally posted on Medium) After 9 great months working with many startups, I’m joining one.

(originally posted on Medium) As 2015 came to an end, I realized I’ve been working as a consultant since June and I thought it would be useful for me (and hopefully others) to reflect on how it’s gone, what I’ve learned, what I’ve changed, now that I have…

(originally posted on Medium) Back in May, after a little over a year, the company I’d been working with, Sum, closed its doors.

(originally posted on Medium) I’d started gathering notes on my experience with the Watch on the weekend it was released (a little over a month ago) but quickly realized that the device fit into such a new place in my life that hot takes wouldn’t cut it.

(originally posted on Medium) This past weekend I ran my best half marathon ever by ~3 minutes and I owe most of it to the Garmin running watch above that I borrowed from my wife.

(originally posted on Medium) My overwhelming use case (>80 %) for Pinterest is to save something, usually an image/screenshot from my desktop or camera roll or via an extension (both iOS and Chrome).

(originally posted on Medium) I’ve been longing for something “between Twitter and Medium” and in some respects today’s Medium changes look to be just that.

(originally posted on Medium) A look back at 2014 and forward to 2015 Most years as December winds down, I resolve to change 5–10 things that fall roughly into the categories you’d expect: lose some weight, be more active, sleep better, read more, etc.

(originally posted on Medium) Over the past year, I’ve found myself discovering more and more new, great music thanks to The Hype Machine.

(originally posted on Medium) Good post outlining some of the hurdles Twitter faces and touches on something I’ve felt for a long time.

(originally posted on Medium) Note: This post originally aired in February 2014 on Tumblr but was moved to Medium in October 2014.

(originally posted on Medium) People who are negative tend to want to demean people’s ideas.

(originally posted on Medium) The importance of defining your company’s values early on “If there’s one piece of advice I can give early stage founders, it is to take the time to write down who you are, and who you want to be.”

(originally posted on Medium) How I’ve learned to rely on (and love) Waze During the month of December my wife and I made our regular trips to and from family members’ houses to celebrate the various holidays.

Getting excited about the unknown 2013 was as eventful a year as I can remember.