debrief with cece xie

debrief with cece xie

the inconsistency and injustices of families.

abolish the family?

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Nov 17, 2022
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I've been feeling really positive lately, which is funny only insomuch as it highlights how negative I must have been feeling previously. My brain feels brimming with ideas, my heart feels full of possibility, and my life feels chockfull of opportunities in a way that I haven't felt for a while. And what's the cause for it? External success, yet again--which sucks, because I know I cannot continue living my life tethered to the whims of others. But that's a podcast episode for another time...

This week, I write about why family abolition is so provocative of a topic for me and American society, more generally. I also answer two questions from readers, one about skills that one can undertake to prepare for biglaw and another about whether I still recommend becoming a lawyer and biglaw since having left. Finally, I round off with a few articles that I've been reading--you know that the Twitter dra…

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