Megan Buerger is a writer and journalist.

She's written about outlaw country and experimental techno, clutter whisperers and the politics of Art Deco, why millennial men are obsessed with Eames loungers, and the budding influencer economy. She has profiled Joan Didion, Diplo, Colson Whitehead, Rick Ross, Lorde, and written the obituaries for Pierre Cardin and Phyllis Diller—two icons who, in different ways, invented what came after them. She has worked on staff at The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Billboard, with bylines in Pitchfork, NPR, and Men's Journal. The BBC interviewed her for its documentary Daft Punk Unchained.

She has also spent more than a decade inside the tech companies shaping how culture gets made and distributed. At Apple Music, she helped turn the streaming service into a multimedia content operation. Before that, at Snap during its pre-IPO run, she launched the first pop-up music channel on Snapchat Discover. She now works at Microsoft AI, where she helps large language models become better communicators. She cares a lot about style and tone and believes in the power of smart storytelling.

She's a (very) amateur painter and writes the Substack Ordinary Objects. She's especially drawn to stories about art, style, and technology—and the people and brands making interesting things at the edges of all three.

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