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7 articles tagged culture.

In Defense of the Amateur. Meridian opinion.Opinion

In Defense of the Amateur

The person who does a thing for love rather than a living often keeps alive skills the professionals have quietly abandoned

By Lena Holloway · Jul 1

The Quiet Case for Picking Up the Phone. Meridian opinion.Opinion

The Quiet Case for Picking Up the Phone

In an age of asynchronous everything, the voice call has become an underrated act of both respect and speed

By Sara Qureshi · Jul 1

The Quiet Virtue of Keeping Things Running. Meridian opinion.Opinion

The Quiet Virtue of Keeping Things Running

We celebrate the new and ignore the unglamorous labor that keeps the old world from falling apart

By Marcus Okafor · Jun 30

In Praise of the Waiting Room. Meridian opinion.Opinion

In Praise of the Waiting Room

A small defense of the enforced pauses that modern life keeps trying to optimize away

By Sara Qureshi · Jun 30

The Case for Doing One Thing Slowly. Meridian opinion.Opinion

The Case for Doing One Thing Slowly

Against the productivity of the multitasker, a defense of depth, patience, and the single task

By Priya Chen · Jun 29

Nostalgia Is a Policy Choice. Meridian opinion.Opinion

Nostalgia Is a Policy Choice

Appeals to a better past quietly shape budgets, zoning, and law, and the longing is rarely paid for by the people who feel it

By Priya Chen · Jun 28

We Romanticize the Startup and Neglect the Institution. Meridian opinion.Opinion

We Romanticize the Startup and Neglect the Institution

The culture worships founders and disruption while the patient labor of keeping institutions alive goes uncelebrated

By Lena Holloway · Jun 28