Tyler Bainbridge and I are sitting outside the New York City TikTok hotspot Fanelli’s on a muggy September afternoon, joking about being play-pretend downtown scenesters taking up the corner of a busy SoHo intersection.
It’s actually pretty funny, given the former Facebook software engineer is the main person behind Perfectly Imperfect, the 84,000 subscriber-strong Substack that’s made him a semi-reluctant authority on NYC cool — not that he’s really complaining.
His only gripe is with the sheer amount of shameless self-promotion that's currently taking up a large part of his inbox. Originally started in 2020 by Bainbridge and college friends Alex Cushing and Serey Morm (the latter of whom is no longer involved), Perfectly Imperfect is a biweekly email newsletter sharing recommendations — as specific as books to as general as “walks in the cemetery” — from a rotating roster of buzzy A-listers, influential creatives, and emerging artists alike.
Spread across disciplines as varied as songwriting, meme-making, and scamming, its guests have included pop star Charli XCX and experimental producers Body Meat; indie sleaze icon Meg Superstar Princess alongside The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri; and rising indie rocker MJ Lenderman a few scrolls away from Red Scare podcast host Dasha Nekrasova.
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