SAM Frida

You can shape a child’s story for a while. You can influence what they believe about the other parent. You can control the narrative when they’re young enough to depend on your version of reality. But the human mind has a quiet drive toward truth. Life has a way of...

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The biggest lesson of my life was never about learning to read other people. It was learning to trust myself. For years, I had an instinct that something wasn’t right. Then I would immediately begin dismantling it. Maybe I’m overthinking. Maybe I’m too sensitive....

Twenty nine thousand people applied to the founding cohort of MasterClass Executive’s program with Chicago Booth. Seven hundred and five were accepted. I am one of them. I have been sitting with that ratio for two weeks now, since orientation started, and I still...

Anyone can sell you a narrative. You don't have to buy it. If you buy it, it resonates. That's the whole trick. And if it's a shitty narrative, that resonance often means hating other people. Looking down on them. Deciding who counts and who doesn't. Ask yourself why...

Someone sent me an Instagram post this week from a GP tuition account called Classicle Club, teasing an essay about "Chinese privilege" in Singapore. The caption asks if the concept is an American import, and if that makes it wrong. It asks if the Chinese of this...

You know the person. The cousin who skips the family gathering. The coworker who never joins the group chat banter. The friend who seems to disappear for months at a time. Somewhere along the way, someone decided this person is a loner, and the label sticks: something...

This is a man who oversaw the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while serving as deputy attorney general, files that survivors say were mishandled, delayed, and released with their private information exposed. He is the man Trump wants in the top law...

There are two kinds of vulnerability, and for a long time I thought they were the same thing. The first kind hands someone something real and waits. It's an exchange, even if it doesn't announce itself as one. I show you mine, you show me yours. When that doesn't...