Instagram wants you to pay $4, Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to swap cheese for arugula, and Gen Z just wants to WFH

The internet is crashing out over Gwyneth Paltrow’s unusual use of arugula, Meta introduced a new paid tier for several of its apps, and a new study says WFH is why Gen Z can't get entry-level jobs.

Let's get into it.

Gwyneth Paltrow told the TODAY show audience to substitute arugula for dairy and the internet reacted exactly as you’d expect.

While appearing on TODAY to demo her turkey meatball recipe, Paltrow casually mentioned that when she wants to avoid dairy, she dices up arugula and adds it in place of Parmesan. Savannah Guthrie read millions of minds when she responded saying “that's weird” and the internet took it from there. Food Network host Sunny Anderson posted a video of herself putting arugula directly into her coffee to test the theory, concluding: "arugula diced up ain't never added any dairy vibes to anything." Goop then leaned into their founder’s dairy delusions by posting a photo of a cookie resting on a cup of arugula. You’ve got to respect a brand who knows how to tap into its own chaos.

Meta just launched paid tiers for Instagram and Facebook, and no, that doesn’t spare you from ads.

Meta rolled out Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus, and WhatsApp Plus last week and the perks make things interesting. Instagram Plus gets you 48-hour Stories instead of 24, anonymous Story browsing, and animated super-reactions. But even paying $3.99/month for Instagram and Facebook and $2.99/month for WhatsApp won’t free you from the ads. On the bright side, the free versions of all three apps stay exactly as they are. While the paid versions add features, they don't take anything away (for now). So you'd be paying $3.99 a month to sleuth without sweating or to let your situationship see your story for a bit longer which, honestly? Might be worth every penny.

A study of 650 million hiring records says remote work, not AI, is tanking Gen Z's shot at entry-level jobs.

If you’re worried AI is wrecking your chances at getting hired, it turns out there’s a more immediate threat: WFH. Economists from the London School of Economics and Oxford analyzed hundreds of millions of hiring records across the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia and found that entry-level hiring has dropped between 14% and 29% depending on the country since 2019. Everyone's blaming AI, but when researchers ran both AI exposure and remote work exposure together, the AI effect basically disappeared while the remote work effect held firm across every test they ran. Turns out companies are simply unwilling to make a bet on someone they'll never see in person. Mentorship, hallway conversations, watching how a senior person handles a hard situation, that's the ROI on an entry-level hire for companies. So if you’re wondering why you’re not getting any calls back, you can blame employers who've decided that it’s up to junior hires to hold things down at HQ. Make it make sense.

My Sunday scaries were nowhere to be found last weekend thanks to these two amazing humans. I spent the day filming a secret collab (don’t worry, details coming soon because you know I can’t keep a secret) with two of my favorite comedy creators inside an empty WeWork with absolutely no supervision. So naturally we behaved with complete professionalism and used our time wisely. (We did not.) I would love to tell you the content we made was crisp and polished and ready for the internet, but my only proof is this photo and it is blurry. I am also blurry in it. This is what wedding prep does to a person. Two weeks out and I am a blurry, slightly unhinged woman in a WeWork. I’d say this is my villain origin story but, as you can see, I’m loving the chaos.

If you want to test someone’s ability to be prepared for any scenario, ask them how to dress for summer in SF. No really, please ask them. I’m out here braving the marine layer each morning, searching for my sunglasses by noon, and then genuinely shivering from the June gloom by 3pm. The only reasonable approach is to dress for every potential outcome all at once: A pleated skirt because it might be beautiful out, a mockneck top because it also might not be, and a sweater doing that off-the-shoulder thing I will be readjusting every six minutes (yes, it’s worth it). And to keep some sense of chic stability in the chaos, I’m leaning into a full monochrome moment. Is it a summer outfit? Is it a fall outfit? Unclear. That's SF in June for you.

We are officially in June! I don’t mean to alarm you but that means we are halfway through the year. It’s the perfect time to check in on those 2026 career goals you set back in January. Are they top of the to-do list or are they buried under your stack of Slack notifications? Tune out that dramatic voice in the back of your head saying it’s too late to start and simply, start.

For us corporate girlies, performance review season is either already here or coming up faster than you think and the ones who walk in prepared are the ones who walk out with a raise. So let’s start here.

Here's what you can actually do in the next 20 minutes to not get caught off guard.

Open a blank doc right now and spend 10 minutes brain-dumping everything you've touched since January: projects launched, problems solved, things that went well that no one noticed but you. Don't filter, just list. You'll be shocked how much you've actually done when you actually look at it all at once. Don’t forget to search your emails from the last six months for the word "thank you." Those are the receipts. If people thanked you for something, it mattered. Screenshot and share with your manager accordingly. Ideally while discussing a potential promotion.

Fingers crossed for the recognition you deserve. But no matter what the outcome of that conversation is, let’s use this moment to help future you stay ready. Start a running doc called "Weekly Wins" and spend five minutes every Friday dropping two or three bullet points about what you shipped, finished, or moved forward. It takes less time than scrolling LinkedIn and becomes your end-of-year review basically writing itself.

Thanks for reading!