Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 09/09/2026Do businesses exist to make money, or to make one to three men feel good about themselves? mattlemay.beehiiv.com/p/the-one-to...mattlemay.beehiiv.comThe One-to-Three-Men TheoryDo businesses exist to make money, or to make one to three men feel good about themselves? Investigating the single biggest real-world impediment to “impact-first” ways of working. 000
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 27/08/2026Tim Curry died 3 years to the day after my dad, who looked a lot like Tim Curry. 000
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 25/08/2026Don't think I've ever agreed with anything more than I agree with this. 061
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 23/06/2026As promised (threatened?) I wrote something about AI and the Romantic Fallacy: mattlemay.beehiiv.com/p/ai-and-the...mattlemay.beehiiv.comAI and the Romantic FallacyHow artificial intelligence is reviving a 200-year-old poetic fallacy. 020
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 26/05/2026Somebody pay me money to give a talk about how the "AI means anybody can create anything they want" discourse is the hypermodern return of the romantic fallacy 110
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 11/05/2026i love early green day because it is sad bisexual boy music *and* because i imagine he keeps just randomly seeing a shoe somewhere and going "SHOE!" 010
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 06/05/2026Anyone following me interested in vintage mens suiting? I have a fun new toy I'm building to share.... 021
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 03/05/2026richard dawkins giving major “pigeon courting a shoe” energy 020
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 28/04/2026you only get to call yourself a "growth hacker" if you're a dermatologist who specializes in removing skin tags 141
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 23/04/2026It's Not AI. It's FOMOnetization. mattlemay.beehiiv.com/p/fomonetiza...mattlemay.beehiiv.comIt's Not AI. It's FOMOnetization.Exploiting insecurity is the business model. AI is just the subject matter (and in some cases, the enablement tech). 010
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 01/04/2026The current US president making a sideways reference to a Curtis LeMay quote was not on my bingo card for today. 000
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 23/03/2026Former (and current) touring musicians really have an unfair leg up(?) on this one, but I remember a particularly brutal non-stop overnight drive from Phoenix to Dallas that involved a swarm of locusts, the Texas State Patrol, and sleeping with cold water bottles as pillows when we arrived. 010
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 23/03/2026Such a pleasure to be on the Monki Gras stage again after (checks notes) 14 years. One of those "wow this is a room full of overwhelmingly interesting and smart and kind people" moments. @monkchips.com you are a true friend and a force of good. 010
Reposted by Matt LeMaysarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 20/03/2026@mattlemay.com crushing it at #monkigras on planning and uncertainty. Closing out the conference in style. 292
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 12/02/2026ok, hear me out, an australian drag queen called "sharon howell" 000
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 02/02/2026when people ask me why i'm so invested in pitchfork allowing comments on old reviews 010
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 20/01/2026brb gonna start charging a monthly subscription fee to disagree with me 020
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 16/01/2026so... who will i be seeing at life without buildings in november? 030
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 01/01/2026Please repeat after me: Everything bagel, not toasted, plain shmear. 000
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 01/01/2026The Gen Zs at the financial district bar where I’m watching the inauguration are going absolutely fucking crazy over Lucy Dacus and I love it so much 140
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 22/12/2025i watched the family stone last night, why did nobody tell me that this movie is completely insane and unhinged 010
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 09/12/2025i am "the knitting factory is on leonard street" years old, as opposed to "the knitting factory is on houston street" years old or "the knitting factory is on metropolitan ave" years old 470
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 05/12/2025While we're talking bandcamp, um, I made this record with my friend Todd in 2022 and I think it absolutely slaps. goldlame.bandcamp.com/album/goinggoldlame.bandcamp.comGOING, by Gold Lamé8 track album 020
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 01/12/2025many have speculated that "greensleeves" was written about a prostitute, but what fewer know is that it was actually written about a male prostitute called peensteve 020
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 19/11/2025Orestes Morfin playing 🥁 with Walt Mink. Don't think there's any other bit of drumming that has resonated with me in quite the same way as the last bit of "Betty". www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO7K...youtube.comWalt Mink - Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto March 12 1996 * Miss Happiness * Bareback Ride * El ProductoYouTube video by heldopen 220
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 28/10/2025Occasionally I encounter folks in my techy business-y travels who ask about my work at Pitchfork. This is far and away the best message that such an interaction has yielded. 130
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 04/09/2025been spending the last two weeks trying to make sense of an eventide h90 pedal. it is a powerful and versatile piece of kit but, to broadly paraphrase a quote from @beautypill.bsky.social that lives rent-free in my head, it feels like it was designed by an incel who hates the world 031
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 01/09/2025one thing getting lost in the poptimism discourse is how much it sucked ass to be in a pretty good guitar-driven rock band circa 2006 1110
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 25/08/2025for real tho i miss talking shit w my music writer ppl, y'all are the best 030
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 25/08/2025tbh the whole exercise of looking at the "state of music criticism" feels vastly secondary to the exercise of looking at the state of the potential audience for music criticism and the state of the monetization of the potential audience for music criticism etc etc...... 130
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 30/07/2025I had a dream last night that I was the proud parent of two very snuggly cats called Fatty and Stinky and it is honestly the best dream I've had in recent memory 010
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 19/03/2025BUY MY BOOK www.amazon.com/Impact-first...media.tenor.coma cartoon character is holding up a pink book that says ' a few days ' on itALT: a cartoon character is holding up a pink book that says ' a few days ' on it 051
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com · 19/02/2025if we're going by the waiters and not the food temperature, definitely "raw" 👀 060
