By Bethany Crystal—Jan 7, 2019

I spent a good part of this afternoon and evening getting through an email backlog from over the holidays. It seems like many people thought this was a great time of year to send cold emails. So I thought I’d take a few of my favorites from this batch (along with some other cold emails […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Jan 6, 2019

They say you’re not a New Yorker until you’ve cried your eyes out in public. If that’s all it takes, then I’ve been a New Yorker since 2008, the year of my very first internship here. Back in college, I packed my bags with a subset of my journalism class to spend a quarter away, […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Jan 4, 2019

Yesterday, the 116th Congress took their oaths as the most diverse congressional class in the history of our nation, with women comprising nearly 1/4 of all seats. I woke up this morning to an exciting flurry of Tweets about this historic afternoon: […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Jan 3, 2019

Digital Divisions Earlier this fall, my husband and I took ourselves out for a “date night” in New York City and wound up at a Japanese steakhouse restaurant, one where you’re seating at a table of 8–10 other people and a chef cooks all of the food on a piping hot iron griddle right in […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Jan 2, 2019

They tell us this when we’re young: There’s no such thing as a dumb question. But the older I get, for some reason, the harder it is to remember this. Maybe there’s something about ego that gets in the way — a sense that I either should know or I ought to know, ergo it […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Dec 31, 2018

For the past few years, I’ve set annual mantras for myself — a kind of reminder that helps guide me through a year’s worth of events and activities. My mantras aren’t resolutions. They also aren’t intentions. They are more like slogans or reminders to help me get from one place to the next by the […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)