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Shalene Gupta

@shalenegupta.bsky.social
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Work Life & Leadership staff editor at Fast Company author: The Power of Trust; The Cycle rep: Amy Bishop-Wycisk; Peter Bernstein 🇨🇳-🇮🇩&🇮🇳 MN/MD/MA/MO PMDD

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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 8h
Best piece of writing I've read on AI: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Cookie Monster Tries to Meet His A.I. Mandate
Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work?
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
wanted to be hip, poured my matcha into a mason jar. mason jar used to hold cumin. anyway is starbucks looking for a new flavor idea? it's actually better that the blue coconut matcha which looked like carebear vom and tasted like it too.
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Discovered @skornhaber.bsky.social's writing when I was looking for an explanation for my thoughts on Taylor Swift's latest. (I am not musical okay?) This is everything I ever wanted from a music critic: sharp analysis that puts my vague "mehhhh why mehhhh??" feelings into words. shorturl.at/ASWOL
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Taylor Swift’s Audience Is Growing Up. Her Music Is Devolving.
The singer’s music once put a clever twist on ideas about aging and adulthood. Now she just seems to be going backwards.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
my dentist wants me to stop drinking so much tea but I want to continue to enjoy my one wild and beautiful life so it appears we are at an impasse
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
my world cup obsessed friend who is blowing up the group chat. i have no idea how to respond intelligently, but i want to be supportive so i'm sending .gifs of marmots reacting to everything she's saying. .... she's stopped texting :(
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
one year after moving out of Boston managed to forget the names of all the sports ball teams from hockey, which does not even have a ball, to football. failed a quiz my husband gave me last night. he's in shock. "you were there for ten years, sweetie!" i'm in shock that he's in shock.
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
yesterday: me: let me set up a calendly to make scheduling easier calendly: unbeknownst to you i shall send an AI note taker to every company meeting, including the optional ones you aren't attending. anyway, today i want to walk into the ocean. i think i'd make a great clownfish.
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thought my mom instincts were sadly lacking. Saw a kid trying approach a stopped train and debate whether or not to jump over. Anyway, the entire neighborhood heard my screaming.
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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The Peace of the Wild Things
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Nibling got a new social media account. Happily commenting away as a crotchety old person: "Learn to spell plane, young man!" nibling: plene is a meme... me: i'm too old for memes nibling: it's okay, i know you're gen x. ....crying in millenial. crying.
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
friend: i am doing OTF hell week friend: my core is gone, my legs are jelly, my arms hate me friend: i had a walrus snot potion after class friend: i am not entertaining any questions at the moment
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Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 10/10/2025
A new London sculpture depicts the complicated beauty of postpartum women. f-st.co/Kv9PDlM
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A new London sculpture depicts the complicated beauty of postpartum women
To present a realistic portrayal of the postpartum experience, Frida commissioned a statue that captures scars and stretch marks.
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 23/09/2025
When stuff like this happened in the first Trump term, major tech CEOs at least tweeted their distress.
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
My husband installed a child gate and made me practice opening and shutting it so I don't get trapped upstairs. He just left. ...Guess who is trapped upstairs? 🥲
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Best of luck to all editors today on deciding what their writers can say without incurring The Wrath.
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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 19/04/2025
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thrilled to announce The Cycle is now out in paperback from @flatironbooks.bsky.social (I'm in the process of moving and packed up all my paperback copies so have a gift of a *really* excited cat.)
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a white and orange cat is dancing in front of a mirror with its arms outstretched .
ALT: a white and orange cat is dancing in front of a mirror with its arms outstretched .
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I went off about immigration for @fastcompany.com. Deeply grateful to @czara.bsky.social for his brilliant & empathic edits. www.fastcompany.com/91274778/who...
fastcompany.com
Who counts as an American?
Navigating workplaces as a woman of color taught me early in my career that not everyone gets the presumption of citizenship.
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Michelle Hoover @michellehooverauth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Apply to join the coolest gang in town (or maybe we're just weirdos enjoying ourselves). The GrubStreet Novel Incubator is one of the oldest and most challenging programs in the country focused on revising your novel. Applications due Monday! More info: grubstreet.org/write/novel-...
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
😭😭😭
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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Here are some books from my fellow Flatiron 2024 debuts that you should absolutely give to friends this holiday season!
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Why does my husband still have floppy disks?
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello again. Who wants to join me in a penguin huddle where we cry and eat donuts?
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Nathan Bransford @nathanbransford.com · 24/05/2024
Be wary of authors who extrapolate their own unique personal experiences and turn them into sweeping maxims about how publishing works. There are so many paths, and you just have to find your own.
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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 02/04/2024
April is Premenstrual Disorder Awareness Month, and I had a vulnerable but enlightening conversation with author @shalenegupta.bsky.social about her new book, The Cycle, and the massive impact of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. Read:
theverbalthing.com
Shalene Gupta’s The Cycle Highlights the World-Shattering Impact of PMDD — Samantha Puc | The Verbal Thing
Shalene Gupta's The Cycle breaks down her own journey with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) and researches the history of the diagnosis. Here, I recount my own PMDD experience and interview he...
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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Shalene hasn't told you yet, but she just had a new book come out: THE CYCLE: CONFRONTING THE PAIN OF PERIODS AND PMDD
Book, bright red, with the title "THE CYCLE in the center and Shalene Gupta's name underneath. An image of a scarf, evocative of blood, is in the background.
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Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social · 27/07/2023
hello. it's me.
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