Hey all. My name is Nicholas Quah (or Nick Quah, depending on who’s asking).

I’m a writer and critic, also a former small business owner.

Currently, I’m a podcast critic for Vulture and New York Magazine. You can find my work here.

For Vulture, I write a weekly newsletter discussing the latest podcasts called 1.5x Speed. You can subscribe here.

Sometimes, I review podcasts for Fresh Air. You can find some examples of those segments here, here, and here.

Previously, I founded Hot Pod, a trade publication covering the podcast industry, which was sold to Vox Media in 2021. Nowadays, the publication lives as an extension of The Verge. You can find it here, and you can read about the sale in Variety.

I also used to host a podcast about podcasts, called Servant of Pod, with LAist Studios/KPCC. You can listen here.

As you can probably tell by now, I mostly write about podcasts. But sometimes I write about other things, like making “The Case for Speed-Watching,” or thinking through Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

I work on some side projects as well, but none that I wish to publicly share at the moment.

I’m originally from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, until I moved to the United States in 2008 for college.

These days, I live in Boise, Idaho.

If you wish to contact me, you can send me an email or find me on Twitter.

Have a pleasant day.