Capitalism
A brand is a cage you decorate yourself. Once you build it, you spend the rest of your career making sure the world doesn’t notice the bars.
Jared Thomas Tapy • The Problem with Instagram Photography Culture
“In the never-ending haze of afters and orgies, are we careering through a tech-driven, pharma-forward sexual dystopia with no happy ending in sight?”
The salary is compensation for wasting your existence.
The Epidemic of Wasted Talent
“Capitalism thrives on this rhythm: the glorification of speed, the commodification of energy. It tells us that if we’re not always producing, we’re wasting.“
Everything is transactional except the body shrinking from being laughed at.
The Paris Review • Death, Love, Taxes, and Beauty, Among Other Issues
what do we even mean when we say “concept”? In conversation, the word is usually sandwiched between theories and delivered with conviction. Yet our friend Merriam-Webster exposes its vagueness: abstract, general, an idea. That hollowness reveals a flaw in our logic when we glorify concepts that haven’t been lived in, tested, or grounded in anything... See more
In Defense of Thinking Small
Our Monday huddles only scratch the surface. We’re all little icebergs in business-casual sweaters, revealing the smallest tip of what’s really going on underneath.