Aleynah
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Aleynah
Media consumption simply does not cut it. If you want to separate yourself intellectually from your peers, develop serious interests and passions, feel calmer and more collected, have deeper, more interesting conversations, and rarely feel bored— you have to read. ( Books, by the way . Not Instagram captions, not lists, not product recommendations... See more
Catherine Shannon • How to Make the Most of Your 20s
Get off your phone and read
And our phones don’t just move us out of our bodies, but they have become something of a second brain, a second body. You don’t have to remember something if you can record it, photograph it, or type it into your notes app. You don’t have to look good in person if you look good on Instagram. Our phones not only hollow out our true selves, but are... See more
Catherine Shannon • Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy
We need to allow ourselves to be restless and bored, to be less preoccupied with the opinions of others, and to look honestly within ourselves. We need to get off of our phones and hear the gravel crunching under our feet. Our phones promise us something eternal and infinite, but we should be extremely skeptical of anything that claims it can go on... See more
Catherine Shannon • Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy
love isn't a performance to be optimized or a test to be passed — it's a private language spoken between two people who choose, again and again, to keep showing up for each other, phones down, cameras off, no audience required.
Maalvika • tiktok's boyfriend tests & the spectacle of modern love
notes on performing intimacy in the digital age (ex: soft/hard launches, tiktok challenges, content maintenance)
You will not find your true self through a series rational choices and consumptive experiences. Some things are not chosen, they simply are.
Catherine Shannon • On cultivating intuition
Trust your intuition — make decisions not just from your head, but your heart and your gut as well
That person who was once your soulmate, may not be your person forever. That doesn’t make your relationship any less special, because ‘the one’ is made. We build it together.
Luisa • soulmates aren't real
Eliminate the bad. In other words, don’t suck. The most basic thing you need to do at any job is simply be competent. This isn’t very hard to achieve, because it’s based on not under-achieving. To get where you’re going, you need to start the car in park, not in reverse. Your boss mostly wants to know that when they tell you to do something, you do... See more
Catherine Shannon • How to Make the Most of Your 20s
Importance of reliability at work
the film’s body horror is an effective metaphor for the torture traps of contemporary feminism and beauty culture, where superficial body positive marketing doesn’t square with an ever-expanding suite of digital and surgical tools for beauty optimization and modification.
Camille Sojit Pejcha • the ugly desire for perfection
A review on ‘The Substance’, my favourite film of the year; on how the fear of inadequacy propels the beauty industry and drains the life out of women.