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As Barbara Ehrenreich and Katherine Newman have convincinglyargued, many boomers also had anxiety about falling out of the middle class in their 30s and 40s. But those years of their lives were not subject to constant optimization. The kernels of productivity culture had been sewn, but they hadn’t yet been normalized. Some upper middle-class white ... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • The Friendship Dip
Tim Kreider (TIMKREIDER.COM) is an essayist and cartoonist. His most recent book is We Learn Nothing,
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
is it ever possible for a professional writer to be liked by people?
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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stitcher.comIn her new book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times , Oldfield talks about long having had “a hunch” that the notion of the nuclear family is “a weird building material for a society”. She doesn’t think it’s “sufficiently load-bearing for the weight placed on it, leaving lots of other options lying around, unloved”. And, she writes... See more
Lucy Denyer • Our middle-class commune (joint bank accounts, noisy sex and all)
As Ben Wofford recounts in an engaging Rolling Stone profile, Schlappig, who was twenty-five at the time, “is one of the biggest stars among an elite group of obsessive flyers whose mission is to outwit the airlines. They’re self-styled competitors with a singular objective: fly for free, as much as they can, without getting caught.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
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However, the big question is their cost structure. For each publication, they take 10% of the subscription revenue. At the beginning of a publication's life, this is reasonable. Maybe even a steal. But once a writer builds a business that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, what’s stopping them from moving to another platform like Ghost ... See more