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Guest contributors We ask cool people what they're into.
Discover from real people What people are rec'ing this week.
Every card is something real people posted this week, with a few sentences on why. Find someone whose taste you trust, and follow the thread.
A place of your own The internet we were promised.
A profile that looks like you made it, because you did. Theme everything, pin your favorites, and post in the format we've used since 2020.
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An emoji, a title, a few sentences, maybe a photo. Albums, cafes, life tips, inside jokes.
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Follow friends and cool strangers. People have met best friends over the same Drag City records.
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Interviews with Charli XCX, Lorde, Francis Ford Coppola, and hundreds more.
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Parties and events we've thrown
2020
The year we asked our first guest
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Members keep it running, so members are the customer.
"Perfectly Imperfect invites a wide berth of New York artists, writers, intellectuals, and scenesters to spiral on bits of personal ephemera, consciously rejecting the endless algorithmic scroll."
"literally the only lifestyle recommendations u will ever need .. the best and only way to break out of the chokehold of algorithmically generated content recommendations and find some NEW SHIT!"
"PI.FYI IS HARM REDUCTION FOR MY INTERNET ADDICTION."
From the interview archive
812
interviews since 2020
Same format since day one. A taste of someone's taste.
Read the archiveCharli XCX
Lorde
Francis Ford Coppola
Our story A scrappy lo-fi operation since 2020.
Alex and I started Perfectly Imperfect as a newsletter during peak COVID summer, because algorithms were starting to define everyone's taste (mine included). We asked our friends what they were into. Neither of us had editorial experience, design skills, or industry connections.
It grew into hundreds of interviews with people like Charli XCX, Francis Ford Coppola, Lorde, and Ayo Edebiri, and more than 50 parties.
When I got laid off in 2023, I set out to build a place for our readers to share their taste with each other. That became PI.FYI: a social network built around taste instead of an algorithm. Friends, artists, and people who just love putting each other on are still the core of it.
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