“It’s not that being happy is bad,” Dan said. “It’s the fetishization of happiness and productivity above all else that I take issue with.” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“So Mack got kind of a late start in the startup world—he founded TakeOff at the ripe old age of twenty-five” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“In its place had arisen a Promised Land of Duane Reades and Chase ATMs on every corner, luxury doorman buildings, Pilates studios and spin… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“He was out of a job because his company, StrollUp—“like Uber for strollers,” she’d heard him say approximately five thousand times—had gone out of… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“They were all in agreement that adulthood could, and should, be fun.” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“The need for approval from Twitter users was something that her younger self probably would have sneered at, but now she saw it as… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“She gestured with her head toward Andrew. “You know how they are. I’m basically invisible right now.” Katya wasn’t totally sure who they meant—startup… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Nighttime Twitter was different from daytime Twitter only in that the content shifted from people in her timeline making dumb jokes about tech news… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Couldn’t thirty-nine-year-olds just be old and tired and not talk about it constantly? Having” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“The stakes were just higher for her. She couldn’t afford to lose this story. She couldn’t afford to lose this job. People like Teddy,… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“She also felt like there was something slightly more insidious going on, about how you were now supposed to feel like your work was… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“She usually operated under the assumption that quantity tended to beget not only quality, but also traffic. The more you wrote, the more you… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Every so often she’d see a reporter complaining on Twitter about how far the quality of journalism had tumbled, thanks to the internet, and… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Mack considered his ears his secret weapon in that they made him just slightly unattractive, a characteristic that he found made him irresistibly disarming… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t who I wanted to be anymore. Where did Isabel Taylor get the idea that identity was so malleable? Not that Katya wanted… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“It was probably that YouTube compilation of dog Snapchats that everyone had been tweeting about for the last four minutes.” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
