This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the full context behind the looming AI threat and its potential ten‑year countdown (and why the narrative is, unsurprisingly, more complicated than the spooky, scary headlines). They contemplate the echo chamber inside Silicon Valley, the psychology that makes our worst‑case scenarios feel super inevitable, and the machine‑god anxieties that have shaped culture for centuries. 

In a conversation about AI fears, futurism, and the ethics of progress, they mull over our obsession with acceleration – whether it’s sustainable, whether it’s necessary, and whether our future actually involves living among the stars (or just coping with what we’ve already built). 

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Could AI Really Wipe Out Humanity and Hijack the Internet? by Robert Booth, Dan Milmo and Aisha Down, The Guardian

AI Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That? By William J. Broad and Cade Metz, New York Times

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics’ Says All The Doom Talk ‘is Meant to Distract Us’ by Lauren Goode, WIRED 

The AI Researcher Who’s Investment Is Changing Everything on The Daily, New York Times

The AI Tipping Point by Billy Perrigo, Harry Booth and Naomi Nix, TIME

This Is Really Bad by Stephen Witt, New York Times

The AI Con by Emily M Bender

The AI Doomsday Skeptics by Katrin Bennhold, New York Times

Don’t Look Up

Ex Machina 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker Wants Us Worried - and Not for the Reasons You'd Think, by Mikey O’Connell, The Hollywood Reporter

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Maybe the label you’ve given yourself feels grounding (and that’s okay!). Maybe it’s limiting – something you’ve been trying to shake off..? Or maybe you’ve turned a label into a sort of playbook, a personality shorthand we were never really meant to rely on.

This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dive into self‑imposed labels – dissecting the logic of Myers-Briggs and comparing their own Enneagram results as they unpack the universal urge to categorise ourselves. And can you ever truly shake off a label once it’s been culturally assigned… sometimes en masse? (Raygun made peace with hers two years post-Olympics – and you probably would too with Sammy Sex in your corner).

TikTok’s Obsessed With “Type A” and “Type B” Personality Types - Here’s Why by Keyaira Boone, Cosmopolitan

The Carl Jung Quote You’ll Love Based on Your Myers-Briggs Personality by Susan Storm, Psychology Junkee

Why Myers-Briggs Is Totally Useless - But Wildly Popular by Anna North, New York Times

To Promote Inclusivity, Stay Away From Personality Assessments by Quinisha Jackson-Wright, New York Times

Mindfulness by Dr Ellen Langer

Thank You For Smoking: How Big Tobacco Created the ‘Type A’ Personality Myth

Uncertainty-identity theory Hogg, M.A, in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 39

Schema Theory in Psychology by Charlotte Nickerson, Simply 

Personality Isn’t Permanent by Benjamin Hardy

All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot by Lucinda Froomes Price

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly, Netflix

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the psychology of being observed in how it shapes the calculated self, mull over the ethical questions raised by the latest wave of wearable tech like Meta Glasses, and confess the accidental data breaches from their own lives. It seems that the next era of surveillance culture might reshape our inner lives long before legislation ever catches up.

Modernising Australia’s Privacy Laws for the Digital Age, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland’s press release

I Feel So Sorry For My AI Sunglasses by Sam Anderson, New York Times

Meta’s Smart Ray-Ban Glasses Let Me Live in the Moment. But the AI is Useless by Caira Blackwell, Wirecutter 

What If It All Came Out? by Bridget Read, New York Magazine

The Audience Effect: Why We Change When Other People Are Watching by Anne Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs 

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the psychology of vengeance, why it feels so titillating, and whether the payoff is ever what we had hoped. Plus, why do we cheer louder when women and marginalised characters finally get their moment? A reminder that revenge stories often tell us more about our cultural hunger for balancing the scales than the act itself ever could.

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House Of The Dragon, HBO 

The Complicated Psychology of Revenge by Eric Jaffe, Association For Psychological Science

The Bittersweet Taste of Revenge: On the Negative and Positive Consequences of Retaliation by Fade R. Eadeh, Stephanie A. Peak, Alan J. Lambert

Victim Blaming and Belief in Karma by Cindel J. M. White, Aiyana K. Willard

Margaret Qualley Just Walked the Red Carpet in Chanel’s Viral Naked Sandals by Rosa Sanchez, Harper’s Bazaar

reputation, Taylor Swift

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This week, Alice Griffin (resident unreliable narrator) and Jannah Anderson (she’s got receipts) dive into the mechanics of how memory actually works, the psychology behind recall, the fear of forgetting, and the stories we build from our own mental archives. And how much are we already outsourcing to Big Tech from a scale of 1-that Black Mirror episode?? 

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Creating False Memories, by Elizabeth L Loftus, in Scientific American 

How The Truth Gets Twisted by By Ann Marsh and Greta Lorge in Stanford Magazine 

False Memories Under Fire, Scitech Daily

Memory and Learning: How the Brain Stores, Retrieves, and Forgets Information, by Renz Solimen, The Science Times

The Woman Who Can’t Forget by Jill Price

Living On Record: My First Ten Days, Eka Ventures Newsletter on Substack

The Entire History Of You, Black Mirror on Netflix

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dig into the neuroscience of boredom, the rise of the serial hobbyist, the existential itches that keep us chasing novelty, and the cultural urge to make boredom meaningful – even when the moments in between fail to deliver us anything profound.

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They Want To Influence You To Do… Nothing by Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times

Boredom, Sustained Attention and The Default Mode Network by James Danckert and Colleen Merrifield

You Need To Be Bored, Here’s Why by Arthur Brooks, Harvard Business Review

The Association Between Boredom And Creativity In Educational Contexts’ by Anke Zeißig, Julia Kansok-Dusche, Saskia M. Fischer, Julia Moeller, Ludwig Bilz

Boredom, A Lively History by Peter Toohey

Just Think: The Challenges Of The Disengaged Mind by Timothy D. Wilson, David A. Reinhard, Erin C. Westgate, Daniel T. Gilbert, Nicole Ellerbeck, Cheryl Hahn, Casey L. Brown, and Adi Shaked in Science

What Does Boredom Do To Us And For Us? by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker

⁠Quit Romanticising Boredom⁠ by Anna North, The Cut

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson sit with the existential threats uniquely shaping our generation, the preppers taking that fear to its furthest extreme, the brands that saw an opportunity to sell safety, and ultimately ask whether a state of hypervigilance actually soothes our anxiety or just feeds it. After all, what’s worse: the apocalypse (and the world’s least satisfying “I told you so”), or realising you spent your life waiting for it?

Prepper Used To Be A Dirty Word. But These 'Ordinary' People Think It's Just Sensible Now by Alexandra Koster, SBS Australia

What Doomsday Preppers And Survivalists Can Teach The Rest Of Us, by Anna Levy and Rebecca Cushway, ABC 

The ‘Panic Industry’ Boom by Coralie Kraft, The New York Times

The cognitive avoidance theory of worry, Sibrava, N. and Borkovec, T in APA PsycInfo

Blast From The Past

Pandemic Practice: Horror Fans And Morbidly Curious Individuals Are More Psychologically Resilient During The COVID-19 Pandemic, by Scrivner, Johnson, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen and Clasen, ScienceDaily

‘All Of His Guns Will Do Nothing For Him’: Lefty Preppers Are Taking A Different Approach To Doomsday by Aaron Gell, The Guardian
OpenAI Model Hacks Startup After Going Rogue During Testing, ABC
No Worries? Australian Attitudes To National Security, Risk And Resilience, Prof Rory Medcalf AM FAIIA and Tim Wilford, Australian National University
Kennedy, Rockefeller, and Civil Defense by Naomi Kroll Hassebroek, NPS

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson explore our obsession with resolution: where it comes from, whether it’s even possible, and why some of us need a definitive finish while others move through life more content with the grey. And how are we supposed to cope if closure never shows up??

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A House Of Dynamite, Netflix 

The Writer Of Netflix’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Explains Its Ambiguous Ending by Noah Oppenheim, LA Times

Do You Really Need Closure? by Christina Caron, The New York Times 

How To Know If You Really Need Closure Or If It’s Just An Excuse To Talk To Them, by Jolie Price, Fashion Journal

Individual Differences In Need For Cognitive Closure, by Donna Webster & Arie Kruglanski, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

There’s Not Always ‘Closure’ In The Never-ending Story Of Grief, by Michael Bull, The Conversation

Beyond Dogmatism: The Need For Closure As Related To Religion, by Vassilis Saroglou

Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us, by Nancy Berns

Does Time Really Heal All Wounds? by Leah Royden, Psychology Today

This Too Shall Pass: Temporal Distance and the Regulation of Emotional Distress, by Emma Bruehlman-Senecal and Ozlem Ayduk, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 

The Widow’s Guide To Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite

Requiem For A Nun by William Faulkner

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson are onboard to analyse the shift – all stations to crash out central. We cover the big‑feelings energy of Gracie Abrams’ new Look At My Life music vid, the unsettled debate between catharsis and suppression, the reality tv blow-ups that raised us, and the 72‑part internet dramas that are maybe a little too much (even for us).

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Look At My Life music video by Gracie Abrams 

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 

What Does 'Crashing Out' Mean? By Becca Wood, TODAY 

Gen Z is ‘Crashing Out’ – but experts warn it’s an unhealthy way to regulate emotions, by Fabiana Buontempo, New York Post

Crashing Out: The Psychology Behind Gen Z’s Term For Losing It, Simply Psychology 

Stop Venting! It Doesn’t Work by Vail Cornwall and Juli Fraga, Slate

Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does by Russell McLendon, Science Alert

Whatever Happened to Primal Therapy? by Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine

Gemma Collins crashing out On Celebrity Big Brother

Real Housewives of Beverley Hills Amsterdam dinner scene

What Happened In The 'Cozy Grocery NYC Roommate Drama'? The Viral TikTok Story And Controversy Explained, K.J. Genualdo, Yahoo Entertainment 

The Woman In Me, Britney Spears

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson pull apart our collective obsession with “fixing” sleep. We get into the viral TikTok bedtime routines engineered for peak rest, sleep as the latest optimisation frontier for the hustlers among us, and the people who simply can’t sleep – from chronic insomnia to the genetics of true short sleepers. If you don’t hear from us next week? Idk we’re probably sleeping. 

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⁠Emily’s (@gildedwhim) viral wind-down routine⁠ on TikTok

⁠Your Quest For Perfect Sleep Is Keeping You Awake⁠ by Stacey Colino, Time

⁠Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours Of Sleep⁠ by Shayla Love, The New Yorker

⁠Why Can’t Americans Sleep?⁠ by Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic

⁠Franz Kafka's Insomnia Haunted Him, But It Also Fueled His Creativity⁠, Antonia Perciaccante interview, Huffpost 

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack why we’re so drawn to the daredevils among us (the biology, the psychology, the myth-making) and how our relationship with risk continues to evolve – shaped by context, age, and even the generation we grew up in. 

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Climbers Get Engaged Atop Empire State Building. Then They Get Arrested. By Andy Newman, Maia Coleman and Chelsia Rose Marcius, The New York Times

Skywalkers: A Love Story documentary, Netflix

Free Solo documentary, Disney+ 

The Strange Brain of the World's Greatest Solo Climber by J.B. MacKinnon, Nautilus

The Morbid Curiosity of Watching a Daredevil Risk His Life⁠ by R. Douglas Fields, Psychology Today

⁠An integrative framework for mapping the psychological landscape of risk perception⁠ by Sarah C. Jenkins, Robert F. Lachlan and Magda Osman, Scientific Reports

⁠Coast Guard says Titan submersible deaths were preventable and faults company's CEO⁠, by Victoria Hansen, NPR 

Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster documentary, Netflix

Gen Z’s Great Retreat from Risk by Arthur Brooks, The Free Press

Finding Nemo (yes, really), Disney+

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson pull apart the paradox of choice in the age of infinite options: Elyse Myers’ viral video resurfacing as decision fatigue in action, maximisers vs satisficers (tag yourself), and what actually happens when we try to remove every friction from our lives. So which choices genuinely deserve our energy and where can we opt out? 

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Elyse Myer’s video on outsmarting decision fatigue

How High Performers Overcome Decision Fatigue by Marlynn Wei, Psychology Today

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? by John Tierney, New York Times

The Paradox Of Choice by Barry Schwartz

When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing? by Sheena S. Iyengar and Mark R. Lepper, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The Mom Who Runs A Household With AI Agents by Lane Brown, The Cut 

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dissect ‘the flop’ in the age of AI, hyper‑curation, and personal branding – from Lizzo and her new album BITCH all the way to Grand Designs (trust us), we explore why some people choose to reclaim their failures and others own them as lessons. 

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Lizzo’s New Album Didn’t Even Chart. What Happened? by Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone

Lizzo In The Age Of Backlash, by Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker

When Rebecca Was 13 She Was Mocked Over Her Viral Video. Now The Joke’s On The Haters, by John Bailey, The Age

Hilary Duff Does Viral ‘With Love’ Dance at First Concert in 10 Years, Entertainment Tonight

Not Learning From Failure – The Biggest Failure Of All study by Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and Ayelet Fishbach, Psychological Science

How To Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast 

Grand Designs’ Most Infamous Lighthouse Disaster, Channel 4

⁠How Olivia Rodrigo’s Love Songs Became a Breakup Album⁠, Popcast from The New York Times 

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We live in the most information‑heavy moment in human history, yet we’ve never felt less certain. So this week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson turn inward to examine intuition itself: Olivia Rodrigo’s album and the wave of intuition content it’s spawned, the gut feelings that felt like more than coincidence, and the booming psychic‑industrial complex attempting to sell our “inner knowing” back to us at scale. The irony being that the more we try to outsource intuition, the less we’re able to trust our own.

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps: your clothes are trying to kill you (they’re not), and the skincare being marketed to three-year-olds. 

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The Ritual newsletter, KIC

Cosmeticorexia: How Girls Are Falling Down A Skincare Rabbit Hole by Ruth Clegg, BBC

drop dead by Olivia Rodrigo 

‘It’s Feminine Intuition’: Predictions For OR3, Ell Heeps, Varsity

My Secret Addiction by Julie Gordon, Maclean's

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 

The Power of Intuition by Gary A. Klein

Recognition Memory, Familiarity, and Déjà vu Experiences by Anne M. Cleary

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés 

Is 2026 the year of the witch? by Madeleine Woon

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dig into the so-called solutions – dumb phones, no‑phone policies, two‑device lifestyles – and ask whether any of them are actually helping us break compulsive habits, or just giving us new ways to aestheticise restraint.

Plus, because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps: we’re calling for justice for beta blockers on the set of the Summer House Reunion, and yes, witchcraft is in (more on that soon). 

☆ Save the date: the Glitter Gel Pen Book Club will be joining us at the Coping Studio on 25 June for the launch of ⁠our Silent Reading Sessions⁠ (and coming back monthly!). ☆

Watch: ⁠Summer House Reunion Part 3⁠ (essential viewing!!) 

⁠Is 2026 the Year of the Witch?⁠ By Madeleine Woon, Russh

⁠My Most Capable Clients Are Becoming Prisoners Of Their Smartphones, But There Is A Way Out⁠ by Carly Dober, The Guardian

⁠What I Saw At The Phoebe Bridges No-Phones MSG Show (To The Best Of My Recollection)⁠ by Erin Somers, GQ

⁠Fujifilm Forecast Trends Report 2026⁠

⁠The Flip Phone Cleanse⁠ by Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic 

⁠Do I Look Ridiculous Carrying Two Phones?⁠ by Gabriella Gershenson, New York Times

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson share their favourite case studies of frugality – from Bradley on a Budget to Hollywood’s infamous poverty cosplays to the influencers thrifting their way through fashion week voxpops. 

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps: we’ve got a man on the inside of an IRL wellness challenge, plus the rise of parasite cleanses (DON’T try at home).

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Influencers Push Parasite Cleanses, But Doctors Say To Steer Clear by Sarah Boden, NPR

Bradley On A Budget on TikTok

Bradley On A Budget Interview by Jessica Coacci, Fortune 

Homeless by Dior by Bridget Foley, WWD 

Watch: Tyra Banks goes ‘homeless’ for a day 

Watch: 1000 People See For The First Time, MrBeast

Read: Maid and Class by Stephanie Land

Watch: Maid on Netflix 

How To Be ‘Frugally Chic’ by Mia McGrath on Substack

Watch: Daily Telegraph interviews Australian Fashion Week influencers

Jaclyn Hill Was Losing Views, But Maybe It’s Overconsumption That’s Finally Out Of Style by Rebecca Cohen, NBC News

The Cost-of-living Crisis In Australia, Salvation Army

Read: Karl Marx and the Marxist School

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Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson follow that nihilistic thread into the architecture of pleasure: when joy must be mindful, intentional, functional, and net‑positive to qualify, what exactly qualifies. Maybe the thing worth interrogating isn’t nicotine or sugar or screen time, but the way pleasure itself has been moralised into something that requires a defence.

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps: we’re deeping the Enhanced Games (international conspiracy?), and embracing the sticker star charts of your cosy productivity dreams.

Episode image: Getty (sourced via The Cut)

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The Enhanced Games Is Here. But Forget The ‘Sport’ – It Has Something It Wants To Sell You by Matt Slater, New York Times

I Mean, Why Shouldn’t We All Start Smoking Cigarettes Again? by Xochitl González, The Cut

Why We Should All Embrace Nihilism by Gemma Parker, The Guardian 

Miley Cyrus’s Latest Beauty Muse? Glastonbury-Era Kate Moss by Ranyechi Udwmezue, British Vogue

Watch: Fran Lebowitz in Pretend It’s A City, Netflix

Read: Pleasure Activism by Adrian Maree Brown 

The Narcotic Pleasures of Cleantok by Jessica Grose, New York Times

Epicurus, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson are unpacking the rise of friendship anxiety and the limits of the tools meant to soothe it, ultimately discovering that the real issue is structural: a world that engineered community out, then sold it back to us as a subscription.

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: the DIY labs closing the loop on longevity testing, and Kylie Jenner’s new hydration drink that makes you “glow from within” (sigh). 

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⁠Women Are Lonelier Than Ever. It’s Putting Their Health At Risk⁠ by Kellie Scott, ABC News

⁠The Friendship Audit: How I Evaluated My Relationships – and Rebuilt My Inner Circle⁠ by Isabelle Eyman, Camille Styles

Watch: ⁠Hannah Ferguson on Inherited Podcast⁠

⁠Loneliness – It’s Not Only You⁠, Conversations Podcast, ABC

Watch: ⁠Lana on TikTok⁠

⁠How People Think About Being Alone Shapes Their Experience of Loneliness⁠ by Micaela Rodriguez, Kathryn E. Schertz and Ethan Kross

⁠Loneliness Is A Problem A.I Won’t Solve⁠ by Jessica Grose, New York Times

⁠Is Friendship Therapy the Next Big Thing in Mental Health?⁠ by Jamie Ducharme, TIME

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This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dive into the strange n seductive world of longevity culture, breaking down how a once‑niche scientific field has transformed into a billion‑dollar industry. We’re chatting about it all, from pilgrimages to Blue Zones, biological age testing, and cryonic chambers,  and the $65 USD olive oils promising to rewind the effects of aging at a cellular level. The industry promises more years, but often at the cost of the humanity it claims to preserve.

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: pimple patches (where have they been all my life etc.) and wearable tracking devices (stay tuned for a future debate on this).

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Watch: Blue Zones documentary, Netflix 

‘Aging Is A Disease’: Inside The Drive To Postpone Death Indefinitely by Karen Heller, Washington Post 

Why Everyone Is Talking About Biological, Not Chronological, Age by Shivaune Field, Forbes

Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal Links Aging With Gravity by Tisha Elizabeth Jacob, The Week

200 Frozen Heads And Bodies Await Revival At This Arizona Cryonics Facility by Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian

Watch: Don’t Die, Netflix 

Bryan Johnson Has Spent Millions Trying Not to Die. His Best Longevity Tip Is Free by Dominique Mosbergen, TIME

Bryan Johnson Must Die by Alexander Biener, Kainos

Read: Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan

The Anti-Aging Gold Rush Should Focus On Quality Of Life, Not Just Quantity by Michael Gurven, Stat News

Why I Hope to Die At 75 by Ezekiel Emanuel, The Atlantic

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This week, we’re tracing the messy, contradictory legacy of female ambition. And with ambition discourse everywhere – Emma Grede interviews, Diary of a CEO soundbites, Vogue rebrands – we’re asking what "success" looks like if you’re no longer willing to sacrifice your entire life for it.

Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson share their own shifting ambitions within this context: the craving for purpose, the fear of being consumed by work, and the cultural noise that tells us to both lean in and log off forever.

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: the Japanese headspa experience that (unfortunately) will change your life, and the journal worth flying to Paris for (disclaimer: cost of flights not included in purchase). 

⁠I'm Rooting for Female Founders' Comebacks - And The End of Branding Women⁠, by ⁠Leslie Feinzaig⁠, Fortune

My Job Was My Life⁠. Then I Got Fired⁠ by Samhita Mukhopadhyay, The Cut

⁠What Comes After Ambition? by Ann Friedman⁠, Elle

Watch: ⁠Girlboss⁠, Netflix

⁠Who Is The Girlboss Now?⁠ by ⁠Michelle Santiago Cortés⁠, The Cut

⁠The Big, Controversial Business of The Wing, Explained⁠, by Anna North and Chavie Lieber, Vox

⁠The Girlboss Didn't Die...She Can't Afford To⁠ by Charlotte Mair, The Digress 

Listen: ⁠Emma Grede on Style-ish podcast⁠

⁠Hailey Bieber Is Writing Her Own Story With Rhode⁠ by Lucy Feldman, TIME

⁠The Foremost Expert on Happiness Thinks Ambition Is Making You Miserable⁠ by Shalene Gupta, Fast Company

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This week, we’re talking about looking “natural” – which, in 2026 means botox in your 20s and three‑hour self-care routines.

Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson explore how “aesthetic inflation”, a concept first articulated by writer Jessica DeFino, has shifted the baseline so dramatically that simply existing feels like falling behind. We unpack the psychological toll of chasing an ever-changing beauty ideal marketed as effortless, and ask whether celeb transparency around cosmetic work is actually all that liberating…  

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps we’re also talking: oral dissolvable strip supplements (a no from us) and the new Korean lash lift that is (frankly) blindingly good.

"Appearance Inflation: 3 Beauty Writers Sum Up 2025", CNN

“Wait, Why Do I Want A Facelift?'" by Jessica DeFino

The Year All My Friends Got Botox by Emmeline Clein, The Cut

Listen: Botox, Fillers and Aesthetic Inflation, NPR It's Been a Minute podcast

The New Plastic Surgery Playbook  by Rheana Murray, The Atlantic

The Forever-35 Face by Bridget Read, The Cut

Beauty Standards Make Me Ashamed Of My Features, And AI Makes It Worse by Humeara Mohamed, Refinery29

Nothing Looks Beautiful Anymore - And We Did This to Ourselves by Melissa Fleur Afshar, Newsweek

Listen: The Butt Blush Boom, Mess World podcast

Would You Use Cadaver Fat Injections? by Jessica DeFino, The Guardian

"Will Being 'Ugly' Be Aspirational One Day?" by Kish Lal, Dazed

Watch: How Much Are Australians Spending on Cosmetic Procedures?, SBS Insight

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This week, we’re diving into vulnerability hangovers – why we’re all out here narrating our inner worlds to the internet, and what Future Us (20 years older, hopefully wiser) will think of the digital breadcrumbs we’ve left behind.

Join Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson as we track our culture of self-disclosure from the personal‑essay boom, Substack confessionals, TikTok trauma‑dumping, all the way to Lena Dunham’s Famesick – the decade‑long case study in what happens when radical transparency becomes your brand. Because if confession has become a commodity, is there a secret we won’t eventually turn into content?

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: the fever dream that is run club at Coachella and the Notion templates rabbithole where good intentions go to die.

Read: Daring Greatly for Brene Brown’s definition of vulnerability hangovers

Alice’s (vulnerable!) interview on Little Things podcast

Disclosing information on the self is intrinsically rewarding by Diana Tamir and Jason Mitchell 

On Falling In and Out of Love with My Dad by Natasha Rose Chenier, Jezebel

My Gynecologist Found a Ball of Cat Hair in My Vagina by Michelle Barrow, XOJane

The First Person Industrial Complex by Laura Bennett, Slate

The Personal Essay Boom Is Over by Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

I Am Not Your Therapist by Sophie DiBenedetto, De Paulia 

Watch: TikTok storytime example

Watch: TikTok trauma candy salad example

Read: Famesick by Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Returns To The Confessional by Scaachi Koul, Slate

Why Did Bad Things Happen to Lena Dunham? She's Still Trying To Figure It Out, New York Times

Can AI Bring the Dead Back to Life? (2024) by Areesha Lodhi, Al Jazeera 

How Social Media Data Are Being Used to Research Mourning by Julia Muller Spiti, Ellen Davies, Paul McLiesh, and Janet Kelly

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This week, we’re talking about the fantasy of becoming a “new you”, and how the 00s makeover montage promised a level of transformation that real life (and the wellness industry) absolutely cannot deliver on. Because somewhere between the slow-motion hair flip and the big no-glasses-reveal, we were sold the idea that upgrading the self is not only possible, but required. 

Join Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson as we unpack the pressure to evolve publicly, the discomfort of outgrowing old versions of ourselves, and the hope that comes with imagining who we might still become. 

Watch: The Plastic Detox

What if you could do it all over? by Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker 

Why we’re drawn to “fresh starts” by Megan A. Neff Psychology Today 

Psychology Today: Definition of neuroplasticity

Buddhanet: definition of Anatta  

Modernity and self-identity by Anthony Giddens

The orphic origins of belief in reincarnation in ancient Greek philosophy by Hasskei Mohammed Majeed 

Britannica: Myths of rebirth and renewal 

Scribalo: The myth of the Pheonix
Get noticed to get ahead: the impact of personal branding on career success, by Sergey Gorbatov, Svetlana N Khapova, Evgenia I Lysova

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Think of this very first episode as our pre‑show warm‑up – your chance to meet us, hear the self‑care obsessions currently taking up wayyy too much of our brain space, and get a feel for the kinds of conversations we’ll be having together. We’re talking habit‑stacking, biohacking, sleep‑maxxing, the big existential spirals (what is the meaning of life?), the wellness‑culture plot twists keeping us up at night, and everything in between – all filtered through two people trying to make sense of it right alongside you.

From here, spend time with your hosts, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson, every Tuesday as we cope with a new era of “living well”.

Shout out to ⁠Mugu⁠ for levelling up our podcast set at the new Coping Studio in Surry Hills, Sydney !

⁠We're sedating women with self-care⁠ by Katherine Rowland, The Guardian

⁠Cultural perspectives and their influence on self-care⁠ by Shelly T

⁠Is all of this self-monitoring making us paranoid⁠ by Madison Malone Kircher, The New York Times

Lifeline: ⁠definition of self-care⁠

Watch: ⁠don't die⁠

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