Book Excerpt: Introduction to “Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!”

The Barnes & Noble Non-Fiction Pick of the Month

Big day! In honor of my new book being selected as the Barnes & Noble non-fiction “Pick of the Month” for August, I am sharing a free excerpt here on Medium. I am proud to present the book’s Introduction below. The book is now available in hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook from Avid Reader Press at Simon & Schuster. Learn more at www.juliovincent.com. Sending love from my screen to yours, Julio Vincent Gambuto

Welcome to the 2020s. That’s the message I beamed from my laptop to the flat screen on the wall. A digital decoration to welcome the new decade. On the morning of January 1, 2020, my friends and I gathered in my compact New York City apartment for brunch — fruit, champagne, hard-boiled eggs for the clean eaters and fluffy pancakes for those who wanted to push off any resolutions that didn’t permit syrup. (The gays can be very particular.) I’m a nerd, with nerd friends, so conversation soon centered on whether 2020 was by definition the last year of the teens or the first year of the ’20s. As you can imagine, it was a spirited debate. Either way, we could feel deep in our bones that a new chapter was beginning in the world. We expected flapper dresses and endless parties, “the future,” full steam ahead. We toasted to that…