Category: Advice
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Situationships Shouldn’t Be Normalized
I’ll start with the disclaimer people seem to require now: I’m not a prude. I’m not anti-sex, anti-fun, or anti-casual. I’m not clutching pearls over people doing what works for them. What I am questioning is why we’ve decided that emotional ambiguity deserves the same attention or respect as honesty. Casual relationships…
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People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Feelings. Here’s 7 Ways to Integrate That Into Your Marketing Strategy
As a marketer, I get the ick watching creators and Canva cowboys sell high-ticket marketing courses that promise to change your life but barely scratch the surface. I have had friends and colleagues send me the material, and let’s just say the bar is low. In Hell, even. The truth…
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Why Color Still Matters: Creativity, Culture, and the Crisis of a Washed-Out World
After Pantone dropped Cloud Dancer, a shade I dubbed The Landlord Special, as the 2026 Color of the Year, I couldn’t shake the bigger question behind the disappointment: Why does color matter so much? And why does choosing the most forgettable white possible feel like a metaphor for where culture is right now? Color…
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Single, Centered, and Unbothered: The Anti-Situationship Mindset
There’s a strange tension in modern singlehood. You’re either expected to broadcast your independence with the volume of an NFL halftime show, or quietly nurse the assumption that you’re secretly yearning for a plus-one. In between those two extremes sits the rest of us…people who are genuinely fine, building lives…
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Why Pantone’s Cloud Dancer Is the Most Disappointing Color of the Year Yet
Pantone has announced the 2026 Color of the Year, and it’s… PANTONE 11-4201. Also known as Cloud Dancer. A soft, airy white. Or as I like to call it, The Landlord Special. A color so subtle it practically disappears. And honestly? It’s a major letdown. Pantone frames Cloud Dancer as a “whisper…
The Girl in Gucci Glasses 