My Take on some things everything.
Here is the part where I stop being polite and start telling you what I actually think. About books. About brunch. About the tyranny of group texts. About the email that should have been a sentence. About absolutely everything.
There is no neutral take here. No both-sides. No one-hand-other-hand. Just me, a keyboard, and an embarrassing amount of opinions about things you didn't ask about.
You're going to disagree with me. That's fine. That's the point.
Olivia Keen is not a journalist. She is not an expert. She is not, despite repeated suggestions, a guru. She is a person with too much to say and finally enough caffeine to say it.
She started MTOE! because the group chat got tired and her notes app was about to file a labor complaint.
If you've ever sent a long voice memo nobody asked for, written a draft tweet you were too well-adjusted to publish, or argued with a stranger in a YouTube comments section at 1 a.m. — you'll feel right at home here. We can be unwell together. It'll be fun.
Filed under: things I cannot stop thinking about. New takes posted weekly to the Substack. Click any of them to read. Disagree at your leisure.
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