An early February batch of links
Since the last batch of links went out, paying subscribers received an essay on restoring order amid confusion and then a short explainer on microaggressions and how to flag them before they arise. This coming weekend, I’ll be pasting a sermon to be delivered that morning. I sign up once per year, and this one I believe I have gotten right about The Ten Commandments.
Below, you’ll find a batch of links related to the themes of this newsletter, which are career development, community building, and self care.
It’s not just you. Our friendships really are worse now—and it’s getting harder to make new ones.
It wasn’t like this for Sarah before the pandemic. She was close friends with her roommates, but they’ve since moved away. Sarah now lives alone and struggles to find people who are willing to simply hang out. It seems like anything has to be scheduled weeks in advance.
YouTube Gave Me Everything. Then I Grew Up.
What Does Wellness Mean When You're Living With an Incurable Disease? I’ve been surprised to discover how early on in my adult life I’d discover that people get diagnosed with diseases that they’ll have to live with and manage for the rest of their lives. I knew it would happen, but not as soon as I had imagined.
From Career Cushioning to Rage Applying, A Guide to Business Buzzwords.
When my dad was sick, I started Googling grief. Then I couldn’t escape it. “My dad’s treatment is fairly new and experimental. If he’d gotten the same diagnosis five years ago, it most certainly would have been a death sentence. The field is changing, and I’d like to stay on top of it. And when my parents do pass away, I want to be able to find support online.”
Child Care Hasn’t Recovered From Covid, Keeping Many Parents at Home.
That Zoom Meeting Really Could Have Been a Simple Phone Call. I have a strong sense of which meetings meed to be what, and I would guess that at this point in hybrid I’m doing my phone calls than I am Zooms. I don’t mind the Zooms that should be Zooms, whether 1:1 or as a group.
Love You on Tinder. On Hinge, Not So Much.
It’s understandable to switch it up in order to increase your chances of a match, but there’s still a fine line between simply presenting different versions of yourself and straight-up lying. Strange encounters aside, Ms. Portee said that her dating app experience hasn’t been entirely negative, and having a range of platforms has been beneficial.
The four-day workweek is going from experiment to inevitability, survey of senior managers shows.
Once Flush Savings Accounts Are Starting to Run Dry. The greatest luxury I’ve come to appreciate is that I have savings at all. The pandemic period has revealed more starkly how tight some people’s finances are, across all income brackets.
How to Have a ‘Sick Day’ When You Can’t Actually Call Off Work.
What we’re still getting wrong about hybrid-working etiquette. The headline is right, the examples are supremely awful. We need to be rethinking when and why we’re in the office and to use the City that surrounds the office better than before.
Obesity in the age of Ozempic.
Jack and Rick Take on the Labor Market, Pay Cuts and Layoffs. This is a very good debate about whether the CEO taking pay cuts while layoffs are taking place is a good look for the company despite their ongoing issues or is viewed as purely publicity-driven and as a result not going to leave the company better off than otherwise. Time will tell on what these gestures mean, if anything.