Writing prompts about what do we do with lost & found time — Clocks were set back by an hour yesterday in the US as Daylight Savings Time ended. It’s a curious sensation, getting back the hour that was taken from you in the Spring. …

Your career lessons for a past version of yourself — How often do we heed good advice? There’s something in me — and in most people, I believe — that’s resistant to the notion that someone else might know what’s good for me, even when that someone knows me well and wants only the best for me. Unsolicited advice can…

Mining your professional life for story ideas — This week, Amy Shearn handed me the reins to Write Here, to offer some writing prompts on Creators Hub. It just so happens that tomorrow, October 26th, I’m co-hosting a Medium Creator Workshop with Kate Green Tripp called Write What You Know: Turn Your Professional Experience Into Stories Readers Want…

A pair of New York Times reporters offer an inside look at Facebook’s (mis)handling of its litany of scandals — I Read It So You Don’t Have To is a series that gives you the TL;DR on a business book you want to read — but don’t have time to. What did I read? An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang. So who are Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang? They’re a pair of investigative technology…

Roxane Gay, Kurt Andersen, and David Dennis, Jr. are judging the category — Have you had a unique or defining career experience you’ve always wanted to tell others about? Do you have that great quitting story you can’t resist sharing, or a complicated work conundrum that needs to be navigated in writing? Do you think we’ve been doing hybrid work all wrong and…

— Prachi Gupta in The Atlantic Indian Americans Are Stuck Between Hope and Despair The pandemic is ravaging India at the same moment that it is receding in the United Statesmedium.com

Writers on Medium address the country’s disaster — Chandy Bee writes with a plea to acknowledge the pain that the country is experiencing: Covid Is Ravaging My Country A plea for us to acknowledge our collective pain and griefchandy-bee.medium.com From a few weeks before the surge became a full-blown crisis, filmmaker Anand Kamalakar wrote about the challenge of traveling back to the U.S. …

On The Atlantic, Vidya Krishnan writes about how chronic underinvestment in India’s public health infrastructure led to the Covid disaster the country is experiencing today. India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing medium.com

Interesting theory, but... the Golden Globes and Grammys both saw their ratings drop by 62% and 51% earlier this year, too. Granted, they both happened a couple of months later than their usual dates. But could it just be that no one cares about award shows anymore? https://marker.medium.com/how-our-year-of-isolation-changed-entertainment-d23af6d8b8de