Happy Memorial Day! I hope you enjoyed the long weekend. Here are some links and recipes I’ve been enjoying from the last two weeks.
Good things to read
The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social | The New York Times
The Bearer of Bad News | The New York Times
I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships. |The New York Times
What If Instead of Trying to Manage Your Time, You Set It Free? | The New York Times
The TikTok Girlies Reclaiming Being a “Bed Person” | Dwell
The Messenger is a news startup, but it feels like a blast from the past | Columbia Journalism Review
The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’ | POLITICO
The Plaza | The New Yorker
The HR-ification Of Marriage |Bustle
Why BuzzFeed joined Gawker in the internet news graveyard | The Washington Post
The Lies Mothers Tell Themselves and Their Children | The New York Times
Can I Afford to Live Like This? Curbed
Real Life | Slate
The Tyranny of ‘the Best’ | The New York Times
The Death of Fancy Ketchup | TASTE
We’re All Shopping Addicts Now | The Cut
Returning to the Office Is Killing My Budget | The Wall Street Journal
When digital nomads come to town | Rest of World
A Movement to Make Workplaces ‘Menopause Friendly’ | The New York Times
Notes on Losing | The New Yorker
How I Got Bamboo-zled by Baby Clothes | The Atlantic
Inside The Stunning Rise And Fall Of Girls Gone Wild | HuffPost
Good things to cook
Chicken shawarma bowls. Crispy gnocchi with sausage and peas. Spicy honey chicken with broccoli and feta (this was surprisingly good). Black pepper stir fried tofu and asparagus. And for Memorial Day, I’m making this strawberry cream cheese tart.