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A new haircut, a bad day at work, the onset of seasonal affective disorder—so many things can be attributed to what people are calling a “menty b.”

What’s a ‘Menty B’? A Light Way to Talk About Heavy Moments

wsj.com

for Sartre, there is no human nature. We must always be imagining and reimagining who we are, which is to say we are always in the process of becoming. For Beauvoir, becoming was a creative enterprise, a work of art.

What Hannah Arendt Proposed as an Alternative to Authenticity | Aeon Essays

aeon.co

The fact that “Severance” streams on Apple, and that its aesthetic is pointedly Jobsian, is a relevant irony. We love our iPhones, but we’d rather not think about what it takes to make them.

“Severance” Is Sci-Fi for the Soul

newyorker.com

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