Weekly Edit #3
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust
April brings fresh energy as we move into the second quarter of 2025. 🌼 As I reflect on these three months, my thoughts keep returning to how we navigate complexity. This week's collection examines different sides of familiar stories, celebrates the power of intentional strategy, and finds beauty in unexpected places. I'm reminded that growth often happens when we pause to consider alternative perspectives.
Read 📰 📚
Review: Careless People | Former Meta employee, Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, offers an honest perspective that looks beyond the tell-all drama to examine the complex reality of global policy work. Her insider experience provides valuable context to this buzzy publication.
“PM Your Career Like You PM Your Product” | Deb Liu, former Ancestry CEO, brilliantly applies product management principles to career development. Strategic, refreshing, and immediately actionable.
Explore 🔍 🌏
The Wie Suite Event: Wealth Management for Women | A timely Financial Literacy Month masterclass with Ida Liu, former Global Head of Citi Private Bank, that addresses the specific financial concerns women face. This event moves beyond generic advice to tackle the unique challenges in women's wealth journeys – from investment barriers to building lasting financial confidence.
Su Yu-Xin: Searching the Sky for Gold (Orange County Museum of Art, through May 25) | Su transforms the invisible into visible through her exploration of atmospheric elements – from coastal salt air to volcanic dust. Her work invites us to see the world beyond what's immediately perceptible, revealing the hidden chemistry that shapes our sensory experience.
Discover 💡 ✨
Armoire | This Seattle-based clothing rental service gives members access to endless styles for a monthly fee, reducing closet clutter while keeping your wardrobe fresh and sustainable—particularly helpful during seasons of transition.
Goals & Habit Tracker | If you're looking to maintain momentum on your 2025 goals, Brandon Smithwrick, Director of Content & Creative at Kickstarter, offers clean, intuitive templates that adapt to your unique rhythms and priorities.
Immerse 🎧 🎬
How Digital Culture is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu, journalist and NPR host-at-large, examines how beauty standards are digitally transforming self-perception. With 80% of 13-year-old US girls using beauty filters (according to a 2019 Dove survey), her call to celebrate diverse aesthetics rather than conform to homogenized standards feels especially relevant.
Why Costco Went All In on Kirkland | Costco's private label strategy transformed retail. The principles behind their success offer valuable lessons for any business thinking about brand development and customer loyalty.
🪷 Thoughts this week: Watching my daughter's ultimate frisbee game left me in awe of teamwork in its purest form. Players anticipating each other's movements, adjusting strategies in real-time, supporting one another through victories and setbacks—all without missing a beat. It’s a sweet reminder that our most meaningful work rarely happens in isolation but emerges when individual talents converge toward a shared purpose.
I’m curious—how do you create environments that nurture this kind of collaborative magic in your own life?
🧿 Warmth and wonder, wherever you are.
