J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
43 per cent believe they are less happy than their parents were at our age, as they could find jobs, afford to buy homes, have children, or marry. Most definitively, in 2024, the World Happiness Report found that Gen Z is the unhappiest generation today, particularly in the US.
Halima Jibril • What would make young people happy?
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.
In order to learn you also need to forget, to make room, to stop seeing something one way so you can start seeing it another way - Mark Lewis
- YouTube
youtu.beI owe this insight to my colleague Colin Nimick, a brilliant copywriter at Ogilvy who said, “In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
351c95_bdf18b8fe6f2415ca322c4cea16331ec.pdf
1000tinypieces.com.auAmerica needs to radically rethink what it means to be old - The Atlantic