Hi friends, how was your weekend?
March madness is here!
Not just basketball — life & work are warming up, speeding up.
My team is headed to SXSW this weekend. If you’re out & about in Austin for the festival, check out two panels we’re running: Create Inclusive Beauty Communities (with e.l.f. beauty, Pinterest, and Glossy) and Bridging the Gap Between In-Game and Digital Engagement (with WNBA, NBA, DraftKings).
I’m also training and building new muscle in writing & kettlebells (one practice kickstarts the other).
Deep breaths. Focus & flow.
Sending positive anti-Sunday Scaries vibes your way 🙏🏽
Reading
She wears Prada in the Prado. I got lost in this sumptuous profile of Miuccia Prada, Icon and Iconoclast — Vogue.
More than mere form and function, Prada’s clothes are, she insists, narrative. “I am interested in the lives of people,” she said. “So, it’s not designing—it’s putting together personalities, histories, pieces of life, good, bad.”
A Life Without a Home: searing portrait of the American unhoused. Over 19,000 people in Los Angeles alone are living in their cars. (NYT)
Watching
Past Lives. (A+) The hype is real. Spellbound by the storytelling. Also a sucker for a story where NYC plays a main character.
Listening
Lo, a new Paula Cole album in the year of our Lord 2024. 90’s riot grrrl revivalism continues.
Life Kit, an NPR podcast on how to human.
Dope Stuff for your Desk
Stooped this find! Get in your Bob the Builder era with this storage caddy inspired by the classic red toolbox. (Kikkerland, $30)
From the Mixtape
Relaxing soul music to heal your soul… another antidote to Sunday scaries.
Social Impact
🎥 Peace is Loud. In solidarity with Palestine during Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Peace is Loud is offering free one-hour consultations to Palestinian filmmakers on how to build an impact campaign for their documentary.
🌺 The Bloom. Social impact career, inspiration, jobs & resources to your inbox every Sunday, for free. We need more healers in the world — share far and wide with those looking for work in social impact and nonprofits.
🎓 I’m still carving out time every Friday for mentor chats with Asians in Advertising, planting seeds and watching them bloom.
Stay loud & spread love,