Work Life

JULY 27, 2024

Despite all our digital connections, we are in the midst of what U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has described as an epidemic of loneliness. That sense of isolation is what Nicole Kenney wants to address with Hey Auntie!, an emerging social support network that is connecting Black women across ages and life stages. The platform “designates a nurturing relationship that may be biological but is more often what we call a ‘fictive kinship,’ emotionally significant bonds not based on blood or lega

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Work Life

JULY 27, 2024

When Monika Jiang set out to explore modern loneliness she asked a radical question: What if our experience of loneliness is our path back to each other? She took the leap—leaving her role as the head of Curation and Community at The House of Beautiful Business—with the intent that she’d continue pursuing it if others felt similarly. Her affirmation came at her first event, where a participant wrote this in their “lonely letter”.

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Work Life

JULY 27, 2024

As the 2024 Paris Olympics kick off this weekend, the cloud left by the 2020 Tokyo Games’ viewership flop still casts a shadow. Headlines declaring the death of the Olympics have become a quadrennial tradition, with critics citing overspending and corruption as factors with historically low viewership as a nail in the Olympic coffin. But are the Games really on life support, or are we simply measuring their vitality with outdated metrics?

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