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Weekend Reads v. 24.1.2025

So very on brand.

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Elisabeth
Jan 24, 2025
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Reader, I write to you from a glam café on a typical mid-week day after what felt like a total miss of a meeting. You ever have those? It seems like you said all the wrong things. Wait, did you really say that? Why did you have to talk so much? Was I too casually dressed? Sigh. TBH, my bumpiness felt so very on-brand of me. You win some, you lose some, I suppose.

As a chronic people pleaser, I’m trying to be better about losing some and just moving right along. I’m also getting much more comfortable with the fact that some people just do not (and never will!) warm to me. This just makes more room for my favorite people to sit in my front row.

Anyway, we made it through the week. That’s a win for us all.

Here are some interesting things I found this week:

One of my favorite books from my high school English class is 100 years old, and somehow it still feels like it could have been written last month. Literature, you are amazing sometimes.

Do you regularly use AI? I don’t…

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