Dina Fierro

Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? As A.I. grows more powerful, we may be more and more tempted to give up in advance and let it figure out things for us. What will we lose as a result?

"Just as physical effort reshapes our bodies, mental effort reshapes our minds and, therefore, our identities and our selves."

How AI will change the way we think:

www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

I don’t follow enough people on Bluesky to diversify my feed beyond @amybrown.xyz

The baby is me

Reflections on Unemployment: Three Months In It's safe to say I have some thoughts.

Unemployment has been a crash course in just how much our lives revolve around work. In this week’s newsletter, I’m getting candid about the realities of being three months into career limbo. If you’re between chapters—or just curious—this one’s for you: open.substack.com/pub/thisisye...

Call it a coping mechanism but as America rapidly collapses around us, I’ve got just one thing on my mind and that’s boots thisisyetanother.substack.com/p/five-pairs...

Is This How Reddit Ends? The site has become a reservoir of humanity on the web. Now it, too, is turning to AI.

Reddit's new AI-powered conversational interface, Reddit Answers, diminishes the uniquely human content that makes the platform so powerful:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Beauty Black Book: Skincare Edition Part two in a series of an exhaustive, unbiased product recommendations from a former industry professional.

My Beauty Black Book series continues on Substack this week with a deep dive on skincare - essential products, devices, and yes…in-office treatments. Read, ❤️ and subscribe: thisisyetanother.substack.com/p/beauty-bla...

Beauty Black Book: Makeup Edition Part one in a series of an exhaustive, unbiased product recommendations from a former industry professional.

Now that I’m free of a corporate “social media policy,” let’s go deep on beauty, category by category. This week’s newsletter kicks things off with an exhaustive overview of my favorite makeup: thisisyetanother.substack.com/p/beauty-bla...

Post-Holiday Beauty Sales Are Live A few things worth buying in this, the most ambiguous week of the year

Let’s peruse the sales together, on Substack thisisyetanother.substack.com/p/post-holid...

The Year Creators Took Over The attention economy has dominated the Internet for more than a decade now, but never before have its protagonists felt so central to American life—or had such direct access to the levers of power.

“The attention economy has dominated the Internet for more than a decade now, but never before have its protagonists felt so central to American life–or had such direct access to the levers of power.”

2024 was the year of the creator:

www.newyorker.com/culture/2024...

A Gentle Reminder to Use Your PTO And a few ideas on how best to spend those days off.

🚨 There are fewer than 30 business days remaining in the year. This week’s newsletter is a gentle, loving reminder to use every PTO day you’ve earned - particularly those that won’t be rolling over ❤️ thisisyetanother.substack.com/p/a-gentle-r...

Ice cream trucks are an absolute menace