The focus on a theme reminds me of another magazine I subscribe to: Lucky Peach. Their issues focus on chicken, or pho, or power vegetables, or breakfast foods.

The focus on a theme reminds me of another magazine I subscribe to: Lucky Peach. Their issues focus on chicken, or pho, or power vegetables, or breakfast foods... or more abstract themes like "Versus", "Fantasy", "Gender", "Apocalypse", and "Obsession". It's high-quality content that goes narrow and deep — so I rather appreciate that Increment is going with the thematic approach. I would expect that Increment will run less risk of burning through many important topics quickly and having their later issues tread the same ground, just shallower. We already have plenty of venues to get news about bleeding-edge developments in the tech world — HN, for instance! I wouldn't be upset if the topic of on-call weren't covered in Increment for another 2-3 years, so that the content can be more substantive and battle-tested. Kudos and thank you, Stripe!