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Is Your Media Diet Making You Ugly
Have you changed your media diet in a significant way that's been helpful? Comment if so <3
hailo
Mar 6


Bringing back Hot Literati Clubs
hello hello I'm reading my Bible and packing up my apartment for a big move. To where? That's not a secret I'll never tell :o I own one pair of jeans Leaving this space has me reminiscing on what it was like to move in. In my early 20s I made up for what I lacked in experience with audacity. The bed frame for example, was put together by a very kind Italian man as our first and last date. The mount that held the TV to the wall was a gift from an Australian man who I kept runn
hailo
Feb 25


Learning about Business made me less Cynical
Or, on interdisciplinary thinking. I'm writing from my kitchen table, which has historically been one of my favorite places to write. There's cello music in the background, and I'm about to hit my 3 pm slump. When I was younger, even in some of my early popular writing, I think I lobbed around critiques of industrialization without really understanding what industrialization is. Now that I've gotten older, I can sort of look back and laugh at myself and understand that "the d
hailo
Jan 16


How to Actually Have Fun
Weird Girls have Weird Hobbies For one of my forty books of 2025, I read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. It was a bit heady and dense at some points, but full of interesting studies around the human brain and cognition. Toward the end, he explores something called a U-index that was a measure of unhappiness in people. film fun mag, unknown artist, via art institute of chicago In that section, he made a distinction between passive and active participation in someth
hailo
Jan 9


Hot Literati is down with Verizon
Because they don't want your brain to rot Hello guys :D Me & Sampath Having a great chat about the digitization of society and keyboards...
hailo
Mar 11, 2025


Barbie Streamhouse, Bar Oliver, Explainable AI, & the New Armani Restaurant
A weekend recap! Last week was fun and lively and it felt like the weekend started on Wednesday so this week’s recap will start with...
hailo
Dec 16, 2024


The Way I see it, The Final Stretch
Last night, I, Hailo went to the opening evening of “The Way I see It” selections from KAWS's private collection: I wore a new Armani...
hailo
Oct 10, 2024


Jonathan Haidt on the Thought Daughter
There is a new character in the Hot Literati digital universe. His name is Jonathan and he ♡s (re)Cognition Summer. You'll be seeing a...
HOT LITERATI
Aug 3, 2024


God is change and so must we
Little Deaths/Little Delights, Full Moon Edition Hello hello hellooo!! This has been a wacky week both online and offline. I got the...
Ananya
Jul 21, 2024


Hot Literati has a new Babysitter
Little Deaths/Little Delights, Dinner with Ex, Aging, and Free Shots Happy Sunday. I bought paper towels from one grocery store and left...
HOT LITERATI
Jul 14, 2024


alive girl diaries: week 2
Defanging Big Tech’s Frankenstein There’s a recurring ad that I’ve been getting since I graduated high school. It first showed up on...
Ananya
Jun 26, 2024


Intern Week, Actually good NYC Vespers, Dating Column Meta Commentary
25. Little Deaths/Delights LITTLE DEATHS ♡ing being alone𓇢𓆸perhaps it's a defense mechanism When a date is too impressed by taste𓇢𓆸I...
hailo
Jun 23, 2024


The People According to Hot Literati #1
We’re walking the streets of the Lower East Side trying to find willing participants to entertain us in our game.
HOT LITERATI
Jun 21, 2024


Rules for (re)Cognition Summer
Writing this on two hours of sleep, a biscoff cookie, and an 8 pm cup of coffee, but I know you all love an arbitrary seasonal set of...
hailo
Jun 21, 2024


alive girl diaries: week 1
The Funky Bar Agenda
Ananya
Jun 18, 2024


Are you Verified?
Mr. Chalamet (yes, he's back...) was telling me about "Tinder in real life" the other day -- a video series in which one guest "swipes"...
hailo
Jun 14, 2024


(re)Cognition Summer: Reconnecting with the Subway Car
Do me a favor. Next time you’re out running errands, existing in a liminal space, or in the coffee line, look around. Look with...
Bella Ve
Jun 13, 2024


Influencers, we're Going Down (Singing)
Last night, I was a plus one to the most fascinating event. These things are more fun as a plus one. Just ask my friend, Griffin, who was...
hailo
Jun 12, 2024


Making the impossible choice.
ALIVE GIRL DIARIES: WEEK 0 by Ananya For the modern literati; join me as I test out new strategies each week to reclaim my cognition and...
Ananya
Jun 10, 2024


Reading Books at Book Launch Parties: a Very New York Story
“New York is a small town,” my Uncle Lenny was constantly telling me growing up. New York is, obviously, the most populous city in the...
Bella Ve
Jun 7, 2024
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