Alex Dobrenko

You probably already have an intuitive sense of the people in your life who have great taste in something. They’re the people you always go to for restaurant or movie or gear recommendations. Maybe it’s the person you ask to be an extra set of eyes on an email or a project brief before you send it out.

The popular phrases that have become cliches in New York’s lexicon (“the big apple,” “the city that never sleeps”) were coined in articles and movies from the 1920s.

No. We should read these great works because they offer us pleasures and perspectives that are unavailable anywhere else. Because they can fundamentally change how we think and feel about ourselves and the world around us. Because they are pinnacles of human accomplishment

Even if you’re not in a place that has this weird work week, maybe you’re feeling listless and distractible and want to voice some STRONG OPINIONS with RELATIVELY LOW STAKES about vacation and holidays in general.

When I was in my twenties, thinking about what to do with my life, nothing (within reach) felt meaningful: I felt alienated, bored, and millennially troubled by every line of work I encountered or knew of. This was a lack of imagination on my side—I’ve known that for a while now. But I had a few experiences recently that made me realize just how... See more