A list of good reads
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has a shocking report on how networking with high-status people is actively harmful for women workers, unlike their male colleagues.
- Joshua Keating in Vox writes on how the “long peace” of the past few decades is coming to an end—and there is more war now than ever.
- Also in Vox the influence of Hailey Bieber’s ‘clean girl aesthetic’ on the beauty industry.
- Documentary Magazine highlights how globally-renowned Indian documentaries like ‘While We Watched’ have no takers in India.
- Associated Press has a deeply investigated piece on the hidden network of prison labour—and how prisoners are made to work for pennies to supply the world’s biggest companies.
- Maarten Boudry in Quillette looks at why the world has become increasingly pessimistic. (Pro tip: Read the first Vox article.)
- Ian Bogost in The Atlantic (splainer gift link) pays ode to the computer mouse.
- Scott Galloway writes on how quitting something is not about giving up but “onwarding”.
- Blake Montgomery in The Guardian argues that our daily screen time is not a measure of how good or bad our life is. That’s up to us.
- Dilip Mandal in The Print has a thought-provoking piece on the BJP’s Hindutva strategy: It isn’t overturning the Brahmanical social order—but replacing it with Savarkarite Hindutva.
