Matchmakers are poisoning the discourse on this platform, and we should do a cleanse and stop falling prey to their lead gen. — {lights cigarette} Look, usually, I don’t do this. And I’m gonna keep this brief and off the cuff because it doesn’t deserve a ton of my attention and frankly this doesn’t deserve a ton of yours. Still, it does deserve some of yours, if you want to keep the discourse…

If anything, ChatGPT and its successors will make your job easier. — Artificial intelligence could potentially replace some tasks that copywriters currently do, such as generating basic content or proofreading for grammar and spelling errors. However, it is unlikely that AI will completely replace the need for human copywriters in the near future. Writing involves more than just generating text or identifying…

Forget fad diets, workout regimes, and coding classes. These softer, subtle shifts will help you unlock your favorite self. — We’re in the Calendarregnum — that haze between Christmas and New Year’s that acts as an annual year-bridging fermata. Every day is Blursday; you might be day-drunk, and there’s no better week to do mushrooms. I’ll be the first to tell you that calendar flips are pretty arbitrary excuses to…

CEOs keep blaming decreased output on remote work. The problem is way bigger than that. — In a Slack message to colleagues, Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff complained that new hires have been less productive than expected. “Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture…?” he asked. The cloud-based software giant was an early proponent of working from home during the heart…

Y’all are doing the dating thing all the way wrong. — I don’t know how you do it. You’re in your 20s, 30s, 40s, or 50s, and you’re trying to date in the Year of Our Lord 2023. In the era of Hinge, Bumble, Tinder, Raya, OK Cupid, and The League. Here you are — staging professional photos, hiring consultants to…

Greatest Hits, Volume 5. — When 2022 began, I thought I was finished at Medium. Not because I didn’t love the place, or because it stopped being good to me, but because I felt like I ran out of things to say. That sounds ridiculous to you, but I was dead-ass serious. …

Let people make their own decisions, especially when they’re out of options — The median monthly rent in Manhattan is now $4,033. New York has always been expensive, but the 19% year-over-year increase is extortionate even by the City’s hallmark Usurian standards. It’s not much better in the outer boroughs: Brooklyn hasn’t been affordable in 15 years. Queens boasts the country’s third-highest raw-dollar…

2022: The Year in Review — Just past midnight as May 12 flipped to May 13, I put on my earbuds and opened up Spotify. I lay in bed next to my sleeping partner. My mind whirred with anticipation. I knew sleep would be far off; I was going to just lay back and enjoy this. …