Molly

The role of strategy is to support and elevate.

The more senior you get, the more your scope of support widens.

Those people who were filling the void you now fill?

Your role is to elevate those people further.

This is true full time or freelance.

Strategy’s job is to elevate the creative.

Strategy Leadership’s job is to elevate their team.

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If the product can’t back up the price, young consumers will seek one out (and often, for cheaper) that does.

During the song’s crescendo, Joel sings: “Slow down you crazy child / Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while / It’s alright you can afford to lose a day or two.” Good advice in 1977, maybe, but not entirely possible in 2024.

“That’s this really romantic thought, because you can’t really do that nowadays,” Keaton said. “You can turn yo... See more

“Fewer people drink, the cost of living is high and everyone has a mountain of responsibilities, not to mention burnout and anxiety. Unless it’s a significant birthday or wedding, I’m not quite sure why one would agree to gather in the first place. These days I’ll take any excuse to cancel last-minute and it feels like self-care.”

Last week, The Cut reported on the rise of #MonkMode, a TikTok-fueled aesthetic and lifestyle shift where mostly young women romanticize monastic living (single beds, stone cells, quiet rituals) as a rejection of hustle culture and algorithmic optimization. While the hashtag originally targeted men seeking discipline, Gen Z women are reimagining it... See more

And that’s the great irony of it all: we all just want to be seen. Men, women, everyone. We ache to be understood without having to explain. To be held without being asked to justify our weight.

Everything about girls is scrutinized so highly and boys don't get that same treatment. Boys are like, “Yeah, girls will still date me if my room is nasty.”

The meme even expanded its seasonal footprint into Christian Girl Autumn and Short King Spring.