Penelope Trunk
Reframing success and the paths that get there.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 169 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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9/11, the family collaborative edition
I tell Natalie I’m not calling 911 until she sends the thank-you note for yesterday’s job interview. I tell her, “I’d rather die from a heart attack knowing you sent that email.”
She tells me I sound like the people who stayed at their de...
We only judge parents who can’t fight back
Yiyun Li’s older son, Vincent, killed himself in 2017. He was sixteen. She wrote a book about him. Her younger son, James, killed himself in 2024. He was nineteen. She wrote a book about him too, and that one won this year’s Pulitzer Prize....
Your spouse understands you. That’s the problem.
Dewey vs. Truman (The Great Debate) by Norman Rockwell (1948)
People go to marriage counseling because they think their partner doesn’t understand. But your spouse understands you just fine; they just don’t like what they understand. They...
What the Clancy trial reveals about the future of work
Last week I wrote about Lindsay Clancy’s postpartum psychosis. I was excited about the case because the mental health profession would be challenged. Now, after two weeks of reading transcripts and listening to testimony, I think I missed t...
The mental health system is on trial with Lindsay Clancy
Lindsay Clancy is on trial for strangling her three children, but her lawyers are putting the mental health system on trail. Clancy had three psychiatrists prescribing medicine at the same time. She had twenty prescriptions simultaneously....
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