How I Learned to Take My Own Advice

Reflections on the first anniversary of this newsletter.

May 8 • 

Sara Eckel

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April 2024

How to Do the Right Thing

Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir provides essential guidance for the disillusioned.

Apr 26 • 

Sara Eckel

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It’s Not Me. It’s the Algorithm

As a Black woman without many Black friends nearby, Twitter gave me a community. Then I was blocked.

Apr 3 • 

Ofelia Brooks

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March 2024

A Brief History of Self-Esteem

How confidence culture took over the world.

Mar 20 • 

Sara Eckel

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“The Always-Deferred Promise of Exposure”

Professor Brooke Erin Duffy on social media’s aspirational-labor economy.

Mar 12 • 

Sara Eckel

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Aspirational Labor and the "Entrepreneurial Promised Land" of the Social-Media Economy

An interview with Cornell Professor Brooke Erin Duffy.

Mar 12 • 

Sara Eckel

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February 2024

The Hole in My Soul

Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.

Published on Memoir Land • Feb 27

An Immigrant's Journey Through Corporate America

A story of blending in, leaning in, and getting out.

Feb 13 • 

Yi Xue

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January 2024

The Amateurization of Everything

How I turned my career into a hobby.

Jan 30 • 

Sara Eckel

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When Your Career Coach Lives Out of Her Car

Sociologist Patrick Sheehan on the dubious services offered to the unemployed.

Jan 17 • 

Sara Eckel

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Sociologist Patrick Sheehan on the Weird World of Job Clubs

And additional thoughts on navigating self-help culture

Jan 17 • 

Sara Eckel

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December 2023

"The Prosperity Gospel That Never Pans Out"

Author Emily Lynn Paulson on how multilevel marketing companies use faux feminism to profit off of women's bossbabe dreams.

Dec 27, 2023 • 

Sara Eckel

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