This is an excellent piece. I feel like Thought Leader is a good description of something I need less of in my life. The Taylor Lorenz example is apt. I tried to root for her but what happened was she lied to her editors at the Washington Post. She was going to lose her job so she is now on this reinvention tour. Being a Thought Leader s…
This is an excellent piece. I feel like Thought Leader is a good description of something I need less of in my life. The Taylor Lorenz example is apt. I tried to root for her but what happened was she lied to her editors at the Washington Post. She was going to lose her job so she is now on this reinvention tour. Being a Thought Leader seems to be about never saying you’re sorry or admitting a mistake. While I agree Matt Y has had some interesting “takes” he also has had many bad ones which he conveniently deletes from X/Twitter. I just can’t trust people like that. And yet these types of characters are often the most successful.
I enjoyed the People link to scary Halloween stories. I can vouch for Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia although it wasn’t TOO scary. Just a fascinating look at an aspect of Mexico I knew little about.
For wimps who just want cozy Halloween stories (mostly romance), People did another list:
This is an excellent piece. I feel like Thought Leader is a good description of something I need less of in my life. The Taylor Lorenz example is apt. I tried to root for her but what happened was she lied to her editors at the Washington Post. She was going to lose her job so she is now on this reinvention tour. Being a Thought Leader seems to be about never saying you’re sorry or admitting a mistake. While I agree Matt Y has had some interesting “takes” he also has had many bad ones which he conveniently deletes from X/Twitter. I just can’t trust people like that. And yet these types of characters are often the most successful.
I enjoyed the People link to scary Halloween stories. I can vouch for Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia although it wasn’t TOO scary. Just a fascinating look at an aspect of Mexico I knew little about.
For wimps who just want cozy Halloween stories (mostly romance), People did another list:
https://people.com/cozy-halloween-romance-reads-8725175
I enjoyed The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling.