Garbage Language: Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?

Let’s drop a pin in this and take it off-line so we can futureproof the intiative with these key learnings and co-create innovative win-wins that require an omni-channel push but no critical ask. Actually, let’s not.

Published: Feb 20, 2020
Length: 16 minutes (4,188 words)

How Amanda Chantal Bacon Perfected the Celebrity Wellness Business

Molly Young visits the home of the Moon Juice guru and attempts to dissect what makes her the perfect wellness entrepreneur: “In our wellness-obsessed era, the idea of working yourself to the bone is no longer a commendable trait but a failure of self-care; recreation is now cast as a divine pursuit.”

Published: May 25, 2017
Length: 16 minutes (4,200 words)

He & He & He

[Not single-page] On the lives of three gay men who live as a “throuple”:

“It is important, perhaps, that each pair within the throuple has a private bond: Jason and Adrian have their history, ­Jason and Benny work together, and ­Benny and Adrian are close in age. Benny tells me there is zero jealousy among the three. ‘That’s probably the thing that leaves people the most incredulous,’ he says. ‘It just doesn’t exist with us. If it did, then our relationship sure as hell would not have lasted as long as it has.’ Sometimes there are pangs of jealousy over guys outside of the relationship. But that, Benny says, is rare.

“Most of the men’s parents are not aware of the arrangement (and so I have agreed not to include Jason’s and Adrian’s full names). In a way, they’ve eloped.”

Published: Jul 29, 2012
Length: 12 minutes (3,137 words)

Sweatpants In Paradise

Nice Girls Who Like Stuff, Abercrombie and Fitch, One-Armed Pushups, California Adolescence, Weed, The Redemptive Quality of Sensory Exploration

Source: The Believer
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,970 words)