This Sunday night, the Essay Club will take on the topics of design, branding, and visual identity. (And, since it’s Cinco de Mayo, we’ll also be drinking margaritas.) Our moderator will be Rob Giampietro, principal at Project Projects, a New York-based design studio that is…

For our first meeting, the Essay Club will tackle the topic of Women in Charge. Our moderator, the lovely and brilliant Irin Carmon, has heroically whittled the options down to a short selection (listed below) and posed some initial questions. Happy reading!

Going into last night’s Essay Club, I wasn’t sure how things were going to pan out. In the interest of having the maximum number of participants (26), we had to split the group into three tables, which made for diffuse conversations. People didn’t drink nearly enough (to be fair, it was a…

While digesting the selection of readings Irin Carmon chose for this, the debut of Mollie Chen’s Essay Club here on Medium, I happened, coincidentally, upon three more articles that seemed particularly relevant. The first two arrived on the…