HeyJaredLauren Lately
The big picture meets the finer details. Australian politics, gender equity and culture — translated, not hot-taken.
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Lately: On the job I didn't apply for, and the value of knowing what you don't want (opens the original)
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I started a new job, so this is being written on the kind of tired that makes nine o’clock feel like a reasonable bedtime. The rest of the week was about who gets to be seen, and on whose terms: officials who’d rather not be filmed, a map that’s been lying about size for centuries, and Americans struggling with the fact that the world doesn’t revolve around them.ON MY MINDI started my new job last week, and I’d forgotten how tiring the beginning of one is. I did the same thing back in February,
Lately: On motherhood, and the things we're not meant to say out loud (opens the original)
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Some weeks the theme picks itself. This one is about the things we’re not really meant to say out loud, and what shifts when someone says them anyway. It starts with a Michelle Obama clip and a thought about motherhood, then runs through hunger, silence, and a government mistaking caution for competence.ON MY MINDThere’s something really refreshing about hearing a mother talk about her independence and how much she loves her life outside of her kids. Last week I came across this clip of Michelle
Lately: On birthdays, what we choose to fund and what we value (opens the original)
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My birthday is today, which I’m reliably informed I should be more excited about. I sat down last night to write something reflective about it and instead produced a thousand words on museum funding, which probably tells you everything you need to know about me.(A quick note: there was no Lately last week. G and I were both sick, and it turns out you can’t write a newsletter when you’re trying to sleep off RSV. We’re back now.)ON MY MINDAre you a birthday person? Some people love it. It’s a whol
Lately: On wearable surveillance and how we're all dancing like everyone is watching (opens the original)
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A week about watching and being watched: the glasses on people's faces, the men our politics keeps courting, and who's quietly gaming your ballot.ON MY MINDWatching the Kmart version of Meta glasses sell out almost immediately was a deeply uncomfortable sign of the times. On the plus side, it’s prompted a serious look at the privacy concerns of this kind of wearable technology. But that’s about where the good news ends.The Privacy Commissioner has come out and said that our current privacy law
Thinking is about to become a luxury good (opens the original)
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A note before we start. This is the first piece in the paid relaunch of my Substack. Most of what I write stays free: the Sunday newsletter, the explainers, the interviews. Paid is for the deeper reads like this one, and for keeping the work independent. Until the end of August, I'm opening the annual subscription at a launch rate of $72, down from $90. And that timing isn't a coincidence: there's a change coming this month that's the reason I'm doing this now. Paid subscribers will hear it firs
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