the old girls club digest

October 24, 2025

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mallory contois
October 24, 2025 • est. reading time:9 minutes

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The community-recommended good stuff. Never sponsored.

Member recs: this line of faux leather jackets that actually hold up and this list of <$250 leather jackets recommended by stylists, this Mac app that cleans up your desktop each night, this lightweight mineral sunscreen perfect for winter (don’t forget you still need it in the winter!!), this refrigerator that people are surprisingly passionate about, this spray for protecting suede, this service for personalized corporate holiday gifting, this low profile pillow to avoid a sore neck, this heavy duty hand cream to get you through the winter, this space heater that’s not an eye sore, this corduroy dress perfect for colder months, this nail strengthening cream for dry cuticles and weak nails, these toddler shoes in tons of cute colors.

Some resources: these free resources for developing basic financial modeling skills, these free resources covering topics across the VC landscape, this site for learning new languages in a personalized way, this guide to writing morning pages, this guide to weaning off breastfeeding, this crowdsourced health insurance alternative for self-employed folks, this set of tips to protect your privacy and security online.

A good read: ‘Face it: You’re a crazy person’ by Adam Mastroianni

When you come down from the 30,000-foot view that your imagination offers you by default, when you lay out all the minutiae of a possible future, when you think of your life not as an impressionistic blur, but as a series of discrete Tuesday afternoons full of individual moments that you will live in chronological order and without exception, only then do you realize that most futures make sense exclusively for a very specific kind of person. Dare I say, a crazy person.

Fortunately, I have good news: you are a crazy person.

I don’t mean you’re crazy in the sense that you have a mental illness, although maybe you do. I mean crazy in the sense that you are far outside the norm in at least one way, and perhaps in many ways.

Some of you guys wake up at 5am to make almond croissants, some of you watch golf on TV, and some of you are willing to drive an 80,000-pound semi truck full of fidget spinners across the country. There are people out there who like the sound of rubbing sheets of Styrofoam together, people who watch 94-part YouTube series about the Byzantine Empire, people who can spend an entire long-haul flight just staring straight ahead. Do you not realize that, to me, and to almost everyone else, you are all completely nuts?

No, you probably don’t realize that, because none of us do. We tend to overestimate the prevalence of our preferences, a phenomenon that psychologists call the “false consensus effect”. This is probably because it’s really really hard to take other people’s perspectives, so unless we run directly into disconfirming evidence, we assume that all of our mental settings are, in fact, the defaults.


It’s no wonder that everyone struggles to figure what to do with their lives: we have not developed the cultural technology to deal with this problem because we never had to. We didn’t exactly evolve in an ancestral environment with a lot of career opportunities. And then, once we invented agriculture, almost everyone was a farmer the next 10,000 years. “What should I do with my life?” is really a post-1850 problem, which means, in the big scheme of things, we haven’t had any time to work on it.

[read the full essay here]

A newsletter or podcast rec: Normal Gossip by Rachelle Hampton

Normal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Rachelle Hampton discusses reader-submitted comedic gossip with guests, diving into the lives and decisions of complete strangers. The second-hand truth really is stranger than fiction.

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  • Founding Engineer @ Stealth AI Startup [JD]

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  • Senior Manager, Retention Marketing @ Boll & Branch [JD]

  • Marketing Manager - DTC & Brand Growth @ Confidential [JD]

    • $95K - $125K

  • Event Marketing Manager @ Outset.ai 

    • $120-$145K + equity

  • Ops, Engineering, Product, Recruiting Roles @ Cape [JDs]

  • Operations Associate @ Daylight Health

    • $60k

  • Creative Director @ Agency 29 [JD]

    • $100k - $130k

  • Community Engagement Specialist @ Solace [JD]

  • PR Senior Account Managers or Account Executives @ SourceCode Communications [JDs]

  • Revenue Operations Lead @ Knit [JD]

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    • $180k - $190k

  • Senior Software Engineer, Full-stack, TypeScript @ Corpaxe [JD]

    • $175k - $225k

  • Lifecycle Marketing Lead @ Lower [JD]

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  • Account Executive, Commercial Sales @ Restaurant365 [JD]

    • $175k OTE

  • Senior Product Manager, Onboarding and Acquisition @ ShiftKey [JD]

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  • Full Stack Engineer @ Good Idea Factory [JD]

  • Head of Marketing @ Zoe 

  • Director of Research & Development (Michigan Hub) @ Maka Media [JD]

    • $80k - $120k FTE (starting part-time, ~60% FTE)

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  • Head of Growth @ Livin [JD]

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