Hey rabbit hole listeners, it's Kevin.

I know it's been a while and you're probably wondering why I'm back in your feed.

Well, it's because I've got a new podcast that I want to tell you about.

It's called Hard Fork and it's a weekly chat show that I'm hosting along with my friend

and fellow tech journalist, Casey Newton.

The first episode is out now and I hope you'll give it a listen.

Here's the trailer.

I'm Kevin Rus, a tech columnist at The New York Times.

And I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.

Casey, we should probably explain why our podcast is called Hard Fork.

Oh yeah.

So, A, our other names didn't get approved by The New York Times Lawyers.

True.

And B, it's actually a good name for what we're going to be talking about.

A hard fork is a programming term for when you're building something that gets really

screwed up.

So you take the entire thing, break it and start over.

Right.

And that's a little bit what it feels like right now in the tech industry.

Like these companies that you and I have been writing about for the past decade, like Facebook

and Google and Amazon, they're all kind of struggling to stay relevant.

Yeah.

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