Charlie Warzel's first day as an internet content creator did not get off to the smoothest of starts.

I was like, okay, like crack your knuckles.

Like, it's time to go and start day one as an entrepreneur.

It was Tuesday, and Charlie had just left a job as an opinion writer at the New York

Times to start a newsletter. The only laptop I had at the time was the New York Times laptop.

And I was like, I can get like another like day out of this, you know, and I opened it up.

And it was just like completely wiped, just like locked, like enter in, you know, administrator passcode.

And I was just like...

And his subscribers, many of whom were shelling out $6 a month or $65 a year, were expecting a post.

You know, it's day one. You got to like deliver for these people who are now paying you money to subscribe to your publication. So

I opened up my phone and I just started like, all right, let's blog. Seriously blogging from my phone.

So yeah, Galaxy Brain is off to a roaring start.

Galaxy Brain is the name of Charlie's newsletter.

It comes from this meme with a picture of a brain and a series of expanding thoughts,

each one more grandiose and ludicrous than the next.

And like a lot of things on the internet,

it's a meme about the internet and how it gets than the next. And like a lot of things on the internet, it's a meme about the internet

and how it gets into our heads.

It's a joke, but it's also sort of not.

That duality mirrors Charlie's life right now.

He's been thinking and writing about the internet for years,

including about how people monetize themselves online in new and different ways. And now he's

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