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Maybe it's because men have always felt like time is their own, and women often do not.

During an interview following an anniversary fashion show, Ralph Lauren told me that the best advice he could give to a fellow creative is that you’ve

Talking about love is one of the grand traditions of being alive: what it means to fall in and out of it, how to keep it, how to grieve it, how to liv

When you live abroad, you experience family life in vacation-mode snapshots while everyone else lives their normal routine. Your visits home become th

One of the first things she has you realize is whether your business is mission-driven, product-driven, or customer-driven. It became really evident t

But in my opinion, the best way to get more comfortable asking “dumb questions” is to ask them more, because then you’ll see the benefit and become ad

It’s Good. It Can be Better. It’s a little trite, but try it out next time you’re feeling hard on yourself. If you’ve gotten some way into a creative

Remember, the creative act is all about long term progression. The only way to improve is through the consistent completion, and release of work. So l

the creative process typically involves three steps: Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materia

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t

My biggest realization, particularly after my second baby, is that there is just a hard limit on energy that I have per day to do and make and care an

That the answer to all these questions—of art, of children, of startups—is “pay attention to your circumstances, work hard, establish the right cultur

When you are your weirdest, truest self with people and they respond to it and show you their weird true selves, they become your people. You’re bound

The thing I’ve learned over time is that friendships are not fungible—no two people are the same, obviously, but also you can’t replicate the experien

A big project of mine over the next year will be writing about cultural scripts and expectations in friendship. Friendship is vastly undertheorized as

I heard someone say "don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you." Which I thought was good advice. But then someone else spoke

Someone’s best qualities, through a squint, are just their flaws.

Girlhood is big business. The ones who are best at it literally treat it as an occupation, modeling or taking suitably candid-looking pictures of them

It is a commonly shared sentiment that running is like life. In What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami writes:“If you’re going t