Mariem Abbasi

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I as a writer will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

The trip, in other words, gave me some amazing sights, but it's only sitting still that allows me to turn those into lasting insights

remember that sometimes making a living and making a life point in opposite directions.

Except, as you all know, one of the first things you learn when you travel is that nowhere is magical unless you can bring the right eyes to it. You take an angry man to the Himalayas, he just starts complaining about the food. And I found that the best way that I could develop more attentive and more appreciative eyes was, oddly, by going nowhere,... See more

Cultural products and consumer habits alike increasingly conform to the structures of digital spaces.

Digital platforms used to bring our physical lives online, but now that we have uniquely digital experiences and relationships, we don’t have products that let us successfully bring those offline.

Digital culture dictated the shelves

This trend is contributed by Zaria Parvez , Head of Social at DoorDash .

Social-first insights are shaping physical products designed to resonate with the chronically online in ways that feel both surreal and inevitable. There’s the Nivea x Juicy Couture tracksuits. Applebee’s turned the phone-as-accessory... See more