What Do We Do Now That We’re Here? is a newsletter that asks how to live a meaningful life in a chaotic and unstable world.

It’s a Substack-featured publication and a Substack Bestseller. It’s also been mentioned or featured in the New York Times, Outside Magazine, New York Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, and Sierra Magazine.

The newsletter explores themes including care, human connection, the climate crisis, parenting, mental health, spirituality, recovering from overachievement and more. It has more than 14,000 subscribers and gets 50,000 average monthly views.

About me

I’m Rosie Spinks, a writer based in the UK. For more than a decade I was a journalist whose work was published in places like The Guardian, Quartz, VICE, NPR, Slate Sierra, Outside Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Pacific Standard, Lucky Peach and many others.

My reporting career was varied: I aggressively covered the lack of regulation in the cruise industry; questioned the impacts of “live like a local” travel; chronicled gentrification in east London; covered the weird world of wellness, from Instagram life coaches to “all natural” birth control — and lots more. One of the most popular stories I’ve ever written (and my personal favorite) is about why we don’t squat anymore. I also exposed the ongoing problems with Strava’s privacy settings months before the U.S. intelligence community did.

I started this newsletter in 2016 as a form of self promotion for my journalism work. Over time, it’s because something else entirely—and the primary home for my writing. I hope you enjoy it. 

If you’d like to hire me for writing, ghostwriting, editing, or editorial consulting, please visit: rojospinks.com or email rosiespinks [at] gmail [dot] com.