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Coffee Talk
casual, chatty, opinion-driven reflections that can be spoken about in the breakroom!


What Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory Can Teach Us About Modern Overwhelm
By Marissa Rotolo I opened my computer, and I had seven tabs open. My iMessage was in the background, and my music was on. I haven’t cleared the cache on my phone in what feels like months. The news is always on when my family eats dinner, and sometimes my thoughts drown my pillow. The world is loud. There’s no escaping the tabs we keep open in real life, but psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner reminds us that we don’t develop in isolation — we develop within context. Bronfenbre
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Feb 273 min read


Coffee Talk: Why I'm Not Buying Multiple Album Variants
By Marissa Rotolo Once upon a time, an album cover defined an era. Over the last few years, the classic album rollout has been upended in pop music. The birth (or epidemic) of album variants has crowded the face of pop music. Where there used to be one image that encapsulated an entire body of work, recently, artists have developed multiple alternative covers. While critics point to the wastefulness and tone-deaf expectation of multiple purchases, the proliferation of covers
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Oct 14, 20252 min read


Coffee Talk: I Want To Be a Heel Girl So Bad
By Marissa Rotolo Esperanza Funk / @efunk260 via Pinterest Eyes follow the fateful click-clack of a heel across a barroom floor — the...
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Sep 8, 20252 min read
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