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To the happy few
... who were also born in the early '90s. What are the differences between Millennials and Gen Zs? This is a question I tried to answer for a client…
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Rory Gilmore Syndrome
Believe it or not, I have other obsessions in life apart from Taylor Swift. I may know all her albums by heart, but I can also recognise any given line…
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Pauline Chatelan
Hello from the other side
I've just moved to San Francisco, and for those who may be curious, here’s a short list of what it has been like, adjusting to this new life.
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Pauline Chatelan
My creative bible
I guess what’s so enchanting about Amélie Poulain, and why this film has always resonated with me is how it shows there is magic in ordinary people’s…
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#ProustYourself
We all know about Marcel Proust’s famous madeleine episode, but although this is the first “involuntary memory” episode of Proust’s À la recherche du…
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Feeling outgrown
Welcome to my 2021 newsletter, a project born out of a the major fail that was my 2020 podcast plan.
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Personal branding
As much as I could try to monetise each of my own identity pillars, I personally struggle with the idea of putting up my own identity and story “for…
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Pauline Chatelan
"Don't you, forget about me"
The struggles of keeping in touch. As I self-diagnosed what has made me lose touch with this newsletter these last 6 months, I realised that it is those…
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I'll be there for you
Unless you’ve been living under some rock, you must know the much anticipated Friends reunion episode was released last week. I won’t spoil it, but I…
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Borat meets Voltaire
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." – Voltaire. I didn’t know this quote, until about a week ago. I had to…
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Long distance relationship
It went from butterflies in the stomach as we were sitting in that movie theatre wondering when he would grab my hand, to happy dancing in my bathroom…
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I got a list of names
An ode to petty and spiteful women. In this newsletter, I dig into the very notion of revenge and try to make sense of the narrative power of revenge as…
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