We have an amazing Guest Thingies episode today with <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/jessiwrites/?hl=en">Jessi Hempel</a>, prolific tech writer and host of the podcast <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hello-monday-with-jessi-hempel/id1453893304"> Hello Monday</a> whose new memoir <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/1385/9780063079014">The Family Outing</a> you have to check out. Also: details about our blossoming relationship with TikTok.    A TikTok follow for your pop-culture PR needs: <a href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@mollybmcpherson">@mollybmcpherson</a>.    <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/1385/9780063079014">The Family Outing</a>! A memoir! If this description doesn’t suck you in: “By the time Jessi reached adulthood, everyone in her family had come out: Jessi as gay, her sister as bisexual, her father as gay, her brother as transgender, and her mother as a survivor of a traumatic experience with an alleged serial killer.”   A book that gets at the challenges of memory: <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/1385/9781416541530">David Carr’s The Night of the Gun</a>.   An A Thing or Two rec that Jessi cosigns: <a href= "https://rstyle.me/+OfFoY1B1zfMSx-rFL9j1Dw">this inflatable travel pillow</a> for flying with a kid…but probably for lots of other purposes, too.    Jessi’s Thingies: <a href="https://potette.com/">Potette</a> (as she’s on a potty-training journey that rivals Claire’s), <a href= "https://www.cliqproducts.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=17422550100&utm_content=138228762195&utm_term=click%20chair&gadid=612862409022&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7KqZBhCBARIsAI-fTKJg0-0wwlBT9-2c4Qwejr269OtbVUm-zomwwjOyrlhU62jOWySfHJMaAqvREALw_wcB"> Cliq portable camping chairs</a> for sitting…everywhere, <a href= "https://annehelen.substack.com/">Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study newsletter</a>, and adding your pronouns to your email signature.    Our conversation about returning to the office—RTO, y’all!—made us think of <a href= "https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/the-professional-try-hard-is-dead"> Delia Cai’s great piece in Vanity Fair</a>.   Share your dream Thingies guests with us at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/athingortwohq/">@athingortwohq</a>. And for more recommendations, try out a <a href= "https://www.athingortwohq.com/secret-menu">Secret Menu membership</a>.   Get your curly hair looking its best with <a href="http://lusbrands.com">LUS</a> and take 15% off your first purchase of $50 or more with the code ATHINGORTWO. Look into <a href= "http://aip.com">Allstate Identity Protection</a> (your employer may offer it, even). Use our link for a 30-day free trial. YAY.   Produced by <a href="http://www.dearmedia.com/">Dear Media</a>

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