We were told that success was all about networking, meaning go to the event, collect the business cards, build your LinkedIn, grow your following, and essentially reach out to people you've never met. Networking stopped meaning "building relationships" and started meaning "collecting people." We became obsessed with access, access to founders, investors, creators, editors, celebrities and opportunities. As though careers were built by knowing more people rather than knowing

Doomscrolling can take its toll on my mental health at the best of times, but when I’m hungover on a Sunday and still in bed—doing my best to forget about the rounds of tequila that definitely weren’t needed the previous night—the last thing I want to see is my ex’s new girlfriend, or indeed the woman he’s now seeing, pop up as a "Person You May Know" on my timeline. The algorithm: a harsh reminder that I wasn’t chosen, that his new girlfriend is about ten years younger than

The New York-based model and stylist isn't interested in chasing trends. Instead, she's building a world where clothes tell stories, getting dressed becomes a daily ritual, and personal style matters more than the algorithm. Fashion has never moved faster. Every week there's a new "core," another aesthetic to replicate and another celebrity wardrobe dissected into shopping links before most people have even had their morning coffee. Trends are no longer seasonal; they're hour

A few days ago, more than 261,000 Californians received news that would change the course of their year. Hundreds of millions of dollars in medical debt had simply... disappeared. The debt had been erased through a donation from Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel and model Miranda Kerr in partnership with @UndueMedDebt, wiping out more than $550 million in medical bills for families across California. It was an extraordinary act of generosity that will undoubtedly transform tho

I was sitting in my dermatologist’s office the other week, playing the role of "supportive best friend" for a girl who was just there to get a tiny mole removed. It was all very model-off-duty chic until the doctor finished the procedure and started scanning her face like an interior designer looking for a load-bearing wall to demolish. "We could sharpen that jawline," he noted, gesturing to her chin as if he were sketching on a napkin. "And those crow’s feet? Honestly, a lit

Everyone has a different vision of what their 20s will look like. Some imagine being married, some imagine owning a house, and others dream of working abroad or going to college. Ever since we were kids, we’ve been preparing for our 20s. It’s like working toward an end goal, and all we wanted were the solutions or answers. But little did we know that our 20s wouldn’t be about finding the answers at all. If anything, our 20s raise even more questions. It’s like we knew more wh

"Shall we both get a landline?" I hurriedly asked my friend as we settled into our allocated seats in the cinema, waiting for the trailers to start. We’d just been revelling in the idea of putting our phones on flight mode for the next two hours, uninterrupted by buzzes, notifications, and reminders that the outside world was waiting for us to respond. "It's the only place I feel like I can do that nowadays," I reflected. I, like almost everyone, it seems, at the moment, fall

The Love Story That Is Breaking The Internet's Cynicism: For the better part of a decade, modern dating has felt like a crisis of faith. Not faith in love itself, but faith in people, faith that someone would stay, faith that intentions would match actions, faith that the person texting "good morning" actually wanted something serious... Somewhere between dating apps, situationships, bread-crumbing, ghosting, orbiting, soft-launches, hard-launches, and every other term we've

Everyone loves an overnight success story; One video. One song. One trend. One moment that makes millions of people stop scrolling and ask, Who is she? For Darina, that moment arrived with an instinctive dance to Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head. What began as a playful piece of content quickly became one of the internet's defining trends of the summer. Thousands recreated it, the song found a new generation of listeners, and suddenly, her name was everywhere. But