Long weekend reads
Happy long weekend! If you’re getting tomorrow off, lucky you. And if you’re working tomorrow, I hope work is slow and you get to duck out early. Here are a bunch of things I loved and read this week for your long weekend reading — there was so much good stuff on the internet this week.
What I’m reading
The third rail of calling ‘sexism,’ The Cut.
For Bumble, the future isn’t female, it’s female marketing, Bloomberg Businessweek.
When a promotion leads to divorce, The Atlantic. “People cling to the traditional notion that career success is a male drama in which women must do their best in a supporting role.”
The many lives of Roberto, a soup, The New Yorker. You think this is a piece about a soup recipe, but it’s actually about the magic of many people cooking something together at once through social media.
Why mothers’ choices about work and family often feel like no choice at all, New York Times.
Whatever happened to _____?, Longreads. A sobering read on women, ambition, motherhood, and more.
Anna Weiner: on hustle-porn culture and the death of benign tech, Lithub.
Why are so many brands pivoting to coziness?, Vox.
How far can abused women go to protect themselves?, The New Yorker. Just a devastating story.
When a whisper network fails, The Outline.
My therapist says it’s okay to stew in sadness, Elemental/Medium.
Books
I’m currently reading Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, which won the National Book Award, and Anna Weiner’s Uncanny Valley, a memoir about working in tech which just came out last week. I also recently finished Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill (I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it).
What I’m cooking
Last week I made these Vietnamese-style pork meatballs and they were delightful! I also made seared tuna steaks with a marinade of: soy sauce, lime zest and lime juice, a little bit of fish sauce, minced garlic, and minced ginger.
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