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    • Forced to Care

      One thing I’ve tried to get better at this past year: figuring out how to better acknowledge the labor that goes into work that I enjoy or that challenges me. That means figuring out how to support the person producing it — including financially. If you’re new here, welcome — I hope you hang around and see if you like it.

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    • The Myth of the Productive Commute

      This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. When you search Getty Images for “commute,” you find a lot of pictures like this one: a well-dressed, totally put-together business person just

    • Too Many Meetings

      This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Let’s say, in pre-pandemic life, you worked in an office and wanted to quickly run an idea by a colleague. It’s too much for a Slack message or an email, so you stopped by their desk and asked if you could have a moment of their time, picked their brain for a second, whatever.