the old girls club digest

September 15, 2025

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mallory contois
September 15, 2025 • est. reading time:8 minutes

Bonjour from Paris! You didn’t think I forgot about you, did you? This digest usually comes on Fridays, but I’m a little behind while on my honeymoon ❤️ 

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The list

The community-recommended good stuff. Never sponsored.

Member recs: this backpack with two sizes perfect for work or travel, these water bottle alternatives to owala and hydroflasks, this shopping service for petite (<5’5) women, this beginner-friendly espresso machine, this site for buying gifts for men, this brand for some cute stickers and cards for all occasions, these seat cushions to make sitting and long drives more comfortable, these cozy gift packages for the cooler months, this service for create-your-own care packages, these minimalist calendars for all sorts of planning, this software to help nonprofits fundraise/manage a CRM, this very zen activity in nyc, this tool for planning a room layout, these tried and true, well-loved slippers (or these if you want something more colorful and fun), this book of essays paired with journaling prompts.

Some resources: these resources for making friends as an adult, this account with resources for parenting toddlers, a local bookstore’s recommendations of great books for this fall, this resource for reframing fear, this calendar of events for SF tech week, this free online course from YC on how to start a startup, this free email signature generator to make yours look more professional, this community focused on careers in women’s health, this platform that allows you to create a personalized course on anything you want to learn, this framework to help prep for your next behavioral job interview, this program that gifts books to kids for free regardless of family income (from our girl Dolly Parton!).

A good read: ‘The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything”’ 

Culturally, it is increasingly the case that the first step is to go online, search for the a desired end result of a thinking process instead of engaging in learning. This means that we are using the internet less and less to our advantage, because we have less and less prior knowledge: We detrain ourselves out of the ability to access the quality of the information and turn it into actual knowledge.

Rowlands et al. wrote about the so called “digital natives” that they lack the critical and analytical thinking skills to evaluate the information they find on the internet.(3) We need a fully developed mental map of the subject in order to derive value from the results of an internet search.

In short: You need a trained brain to actually benefit from the internet.

The advertised benefits of all these tools come with a specific hidden cost: Your ability to think.

[read the full essay here]

A newsletter or podcast rec: News Not Noise by Jessica Yellin

Separating the news from the noise. We give you information, not a panic attack.
193k+ subscribers.

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