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What we lose when everything is mapped. Plus ten things to do offline.
We don't get lost anymore.
Nov 5
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Jenna Park
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October 2025
A paradigm shift: am I not ambitious enough?
Two years into this post-career life, a reflection on privilege, growth, and ambition.
Oct 29
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Jenna Park
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America is one big subscription service
We used to own things, but now we subscribe to them instead.
Oct 22
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Jenna Park
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What happens when our most nostalgic season vanishes?
What happens when our most nostalgic season vanishes?
Oct 15
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Jenna Park
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3 a.m. is a special kind of hell
The witching hour of insomnia. But what if disrupted sleep was actually biologically natural?
Oct 8
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Jenna Park
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This art is not for you
What is art without an audience?
Oct 1
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Jenna Park
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September 2025
The city is what you want it to be
The city is a mirror of every version of myself. Cities, like us, are in constant flux.
Sep 17
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Jenna Park
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An epidemic of indifference
On hyper-individualism and the collapse of the social contract. How do we start caring again?
Sep 10
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Jenna Park
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We need to believe them
The symphony of cicadas, the silencing of women, and the muse of Manhattan.
Sep 3
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Jenna Park
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August 2025
When objects become lighter than memory
The purge and the second nest.
Aug 27
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Jenna Park
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Beyond the infinite scroll is more loneliness
Disconnection is the paradox of social media. I miss hanging out with friends.
Aug 20
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Jenna Park
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They change your life when they arrive, and again when they leave
August's contradictions
Aug 13
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Jenna Park
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