Just Good Shit: 11.15.20
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Hi, peeps! Here’s what I was up to this week…
On the blog
I was also a guest on WNYC’s All of It talking about hunkering down for the upcoming winter.
BTW, if you are planning to spend the upcoming holidays alone or alone-ish, you might want to check out this post I wrote a few years ago: How To Spend Christmas Alone. I’ve actually spent every Christmas from 2015 onward alone so I have a lot of thoughts on how to get through it.
Reading
‘No One Is Listening to Us’, The Atlantic.
My aunt, an ICU nurse in Michigan, sent me a text a couple days before I read this article that was incredibly similar everything everything this article says. Things are so, so bleak for healthcare workers right now (see also: this and this).
The Pandemic Winter Is Coming to New York, and It’s Going to Be Unimaginably Hard, Curbed.
The Left Isn’t Going Back to Brunch After Trump, NY Mag.
No, This Election Did Not Go “Smoothly”, Slate.
The fifth wave, Mary Retta.
When Discrimination Targets the Privileged, The Atlantic.
This is fascinating, but it’s even more interesting to read in the context of the Mary Retta piece.
The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This, New York Times.
How to Tell the Story of a Cult, The Atlantic.
My boss's boss asked me a fantastic question, Ask a Manager.
Getting in Better Shape Seems Like Too Much Work; Help!, VICE.
DIY Tiny Gourds Wreath, A Beautiful Mess.
Small ways to be helpful
This week I sent PPE to New Georgia Project, an org that is fighting voter suppression, and donated to Liberation Library, which sends books to incarcerated youth in Illinois. I’ve also set up recurring donations to Jon Ossoff’s and Raphael Warnock’s Senate campaigns.
Have a good one! 🍂
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