Cover Your Bases
susan mernitEclectic, twice-monthly dispatches on AI, media, book, style, fitness and culture-- #badass ideas from a tech OG who's aging with energy and joy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Style Granny 15: What 61 Vintage Purchases Taught Me About Resale Shopping
I keep a spreadsheet tracking every vintage and resale item I’ve bought online since last September. The spreadsheet includes columns for source, item, price, and how it worked out or whether I kept it. Since I started, I’ve bought 61 items...
Style Granny 14: Getting Back Into Skirts After 65: What Worked (and What Didn't)
(Mostly, a pants person.)
Just to recap, I’m a former OG tech exec and old school blogger, now nonprofit development and AI focused, who started this newsletter during the pandemic. This fall, my interest in vintage fashion revived, and I...
Cover Your Bases #93: How I Use Perplexity and Claude
If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you know it reflects a pretty wide range of what I’m paying attention to: AI and nonprofit tech, yes, but also weightlifting, what I’m reading and watching, and lately, style and vintage f...
Style Granny 13: Why Talbots Petites Is My Vintage Secret Weapon
The mall brand that isn’t
Talbots has a reputation problem. For anyone who came up in the ‘90s, the name conjures a certain image: mall anchor, conservative cuts, the kind of tasteful that shades into invisible. It’s not wrong, exactly. A...
What the 2026 Stanford HAI AI Index Actually Asks of Small Nonprofits
The Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index report has been widely cited over the past few weeks. The headline numbers are familiar by now—88% organizational adoption, rapid consumer uptake, measurable productivity gains in specific domains. This week,...
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