Musings

Dear Young Women in Business, You’ve asked many and often the secret to success in your career, and I’m here now to tell you the key. Are you sitting down? Ready? You need to be a seven out of ten. You know a Seven....

These are the books I’ve read since the beginning of lockdown and found sufficiently worthwhile to a) finish and b) reference in at least one conversation since. Psychoanalyze as you will. General Learning Why Zebras d...

I was in New York last week for a few meetings, staying at a friend’s place on 8th Street not far from where I used to live. I woke up early one morning – jetlag – and, having always liked the city best in the five o’cl...

Why it matters that history's most jaded generation delivers our news Generally speaking, I’m a fan of Gen X. As a late Millennial prone to interests beyond my years, Gen X’ers make up half my friend group and the...

Does what happened in undergrad matter now? In the spring of my freshman year at Stanford, I pledged a sorority, which is how I came to find myself on the dance floor of Sigma Chi one night in 2003, when another pledge p...

Living abroad, as I do, I am often asked how I would describe the differences between the various regions of the United States. By this, I mean I have been asked this question once, by a man who was clearly reaching for...

A man is out hiking a dangerous and unfamiliar trail when he gets caught in a terrible storm. In the chaos of it, he misses a step and tumbled thousands of feet down the mountain’s face. It is a fall that should surely k...

Here’s a conversation I had recently, at a dinner party where I was sat next to an [exceptionally]-well-funded tech CEO: TECH CEO: Have you ever done Ayahuasca? ME: Nah, the whole vomiting-and-shitting-on-yourself-in-f...

This story got cut from my latest short story collection, Women on Top. I've no idea why, though I have my suspicions. VIRGINIA “UNH UNH UNH UNH.” Virginia braced her arms to hold steady as Brian thrust his dick...

This post originally appeared on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. Like the Yuppies of the 1980s, the Muppies of today are driven by ideals of success, status, power and the search to do and be what is "...