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Mar 4, 2021

The body’s held wisdom is vast, but it’s not as loud and relentless as the cerebral brain. You can think of your yoga self practice as time where you turn down the volume on the brain and tu…

How to Take Your At-Home Yoga to the Next Level
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Rosie Spinks

A useful and comforting thing to remember!

A useful and comforting thing to remember!

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Creators Hub

·Feb 16, 2021

What’s Your Must-Write Story?

The author of a viral Medium post explains how she was compelled to write it — When Jennifer Barnett’s explosive Medium post about newsroom sexism, “I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge and They Are Still In Charge and Still Fucking Up,” came across my morning Medium recommendations, I devoured it while still lying in bed, all 3,559 words…

Writing

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What’s Your Must-Write Story?
What’s Your Must-Write Story?
Writing

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Feb 10, 2021

Why Your Inner Voice Is Such a Negative Jerk
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Jack Calhoun

This is such a useful and smart way to think of it, thank you.

This is such a useful and smart way to think of it, thank you. One thing I wonder though, is whether that negativity bias sometimes—in moderation!—stops us from becoming assholes who are overconfident and too full of ourselves.

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·Dec 24, 2020

One Actually Useful Gift That 2020 Gave Us

If you’d told me last February that I’d be spending the next 10 months almost entirely inside; that my children’s schooling would be catastrophically disrupted; that I wouldn’t be able to hug my elderly dad, go for a drink with a friend, or sit in a room with my co-workers……

2020

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One Actually Useful Gift That 2020 Gave Us
One Actually Useful Gift That 2020 Gave Us
2020

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·Nov 30, 2020

“For Christmas I’m ordering a pizza.”

The writer Maya Kosoff announced this intention on Medium after finding the usually enjoyable process of cooking a Thanksgiving feast to be kind of a slog this year, on the…

Self

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Self

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·Nov 26, 2020

Take One Thing Off Your Menu Right Now

In normal years, my favorite advice for Thanksgiving morning comes from the food and culture writer Annaliese Griffin: Take one thing off your menu. She means the extra pumpkin pie or that new Brussels sprouts salad recipe you clipped last week, that—seriously!—nobody will miss. But this year, maybe the thing…

Family

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Take One Thing Off Your Menu Right Now
Take One Thing Off Your Menu Right Now
Family

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Forge

·Nov 2, 2020

Don’t Forget to Eat

Do you know what’s for dinner Wednesday night? My colleague Cari Nazeer asked that question in a Forge Daily Tip this past Saturday, on the last weekend before Election Day. …

Election 2020

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Don’t Forget to Eat
Don’t Forget to Eat
Election 2020

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·Oct 23, 2020

Hug Your Sons, Dads

“I Miss Big, Wet, Embarrassing Kisses From My Father,” John DeVore wrote yesterday on his Medium site, Humungus. I Miss Big, Wet, Embarrassing Kisses From My Father The tweet shaming Joe Biden for embracing his son Hunter is a mini-portrait of toxic masculinitymedium.com It was a one-day-later reflection on a truly awful tweet—one that is (thankfully) already fading into the morass of toxicity that this election cycle has unleashed. …

Family

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Hug Your Sons, Dads
Hug Your Sons, Dads
Family

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·Oct 22, 2020

What a $154 Disneyland Ticket Snub Showed the Most Powerful Woman in Television

‘Don’t you have enough?’ an ABC executive asked the legendary writer-producer-showrunner Shonda Rhimes — It might sound petty. The legendary writer-producer-showrunner Shonda Rhimes was making tens of millions, and her prime-time shows — Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder — were blockbuster successes, reviving the fortunes of her parent network, ABC. Sure, Rhimes was tiring of the constant battles with…

Disney

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What a $154 Disneyland Ticket Snub Showed the Most Powerful Woman in Television
What a $154 Disneyland Ticket Snub Showed the Most Powerful Woman in Television
Disney

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Creators Hub

·Oct 20, 2020

A Self-Editing Checklist From an Editor-in-Chief

Examine your article with a series of ‘lenses’ to ensure you have the crispest, cleanest copy — For the launch of Creators Hub, Indrani Sen delivers a self-editing checklist she’s used to fortify her copy for 10+ years. In newsrooms, editors often talk about the text that writers file using a hygiene metaphor: “Clean” copy is grammatically correct, solidly written, and generally needs only light editing to…

Writing

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A Self-Editing Checklist From an Editor-in-Chief
A Self-Editing Checklist From an Editor-in-Chief
Writing

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Indrani Sen

Indrani Sen

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Editorial director at Medium, mom, gardener, cook. Formerly at Quartz.

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