SAM Frida

There’s a moment most of us reach, usually somewhere in our forties or fifties, when the calculus of work changes.Early on, you take the job because you need it. You do what you’re told because rent is real and principles are abstract. You tell yourself you’ll sort...

We live in an age of instantaneous everything. Swipe right. Double-tap. Next. The speed at which we now decide whether someone is worth our attention has been compressed into a fraction of a second, and almost always, that decision is made before a single word has...

There’s something quietly fascinating about the moment you offer a genuine apology.Not a calculated one. Not a strategic one designed to smooth things over or get something back. Just an honest acknowledgment that you got it wrong, offered directly to the person you...

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from doing too much, but from explaining yourself to people who have never once sat with their own darkness.You overthink, they say. You are too sensitive. And they say it with such confidence, such ease, as...

There’s something quietly heartbreaking about watching human beings move through the world carrying wounds they don’t know they have. We walk around with these invisible bruises, these deeply grooved responses to life that formed long before we had the language to...

There’s a researcher named Milagros Miceli who just made TIME magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in AI. She’s not building faster models or raising billion-dollar rounds. She’s doing something far more important: she’s following the human thread that...

We all know what taxes are. They’re the unglamorous reality of living in a functioning society. Your income gets taxed. Your purchases get taxed. Your property gets taxed. Nobody loves it, but most of us understand the basic logic: running a country costs money, and...

Today, the Supreme Court handed down one of the most consequential rulings in recent memory. In a 6-3 decision, the court struck down President Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs, ruling that he had no legal authority to unilaterally impose them on nearly every...

There is something deeply wrong with a world that makes people feel they have to earn the right to be treated as human.I have never understood monarchy. I respect history, and I understand how power structures evolve over centuries, but at its core, the idea that one...