J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
Before we had vibes, we had the chillier, more Germanic zeitgeist. Both tap into our appetite for locating our lives within a bigger picture. But vibes are crowd-sourced and ground-up, where the zeitgeist was ordained by experts, a trickle-down form of cultural economics.
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Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insight without endangering the security of our prior assumptions.
– Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
Terrible Onlineness
A World In the Grip of a Terrible Onlineness
Over 40 million people rely on SNAP to afford groceries, and the program is confronting its largest cuts in history. Even if you personally don’t use food stamps, your local grocery store could go bankrupt after losing SNAP customers.
There’s a lot to be said for the fact that when the most economically disadvantaged of us lose, we all lose.
That essential friction—between how you see yourself and how the world sees you—occupied the thoughts of every girl I spoke to. Coming of age is that moment when awareness descends on you like an itchy wool sweater. How do you move around it? Can you just take it off?
What’s It Like Being a Girl in America?
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell."
– Edward Abbey
too many trends, not enought taste
At the beginning of 2025, Joan Kennedy wrote a piece prosposing a slow down to viral microtrends.
TikTok has allowed trends to mature faster and be visible farther than previous social media/entertainment apps allowed.
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
Celeste Daviscelestemdavis.substack.com
Brand Flywheel via Rei Inamoto