I’m kind of into MSCHF’s drops: a new project every fourth Monday. I’ve bought a few - my favorite is Spotting Plutes, a field guide for spotting plutocrats. More than anything, it’s just a lot of fun. I’ve noticed that a few other groups have been
"Wage labor can harm us in subtle and insidious ways, too. The American ideal of a good life earned through work is “disciplinary,” according to the Marxist feminist political philosopher Kathi Weeks, a professor at Duke and often-cited critic of the modern work ethic. “It constructs docile subjects,
"An ERG wants to make all these really concrete changes often at a workplace but has no power to do that [...] They might have some funding or the ear of an executive, which we did at Uber, but ultimately it kind of relies on the good faith of an
"Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students." [Link]
"Researchers agree more men are dying of COVID-19. But a new paper challenges whether biology is to blame." Men are more likely to be at risk due to their context and profession (and sometimes, attitude). [Link]
I'm looking for a senior Ruby on Rails engineer to join me at ForUsAll. ForUsAll was established to help more Americans reach financial safety in retirement. If you're employed by a Fortune 500 company or a well-funded startup, you probably have lots of retirement options;
Going forward, I may include affiliate links in my posts when I'm linking out to products I recommend, including in my end-of-month link roundups. You can be assured of several things: I won't link to products I wouldn't have recommended anyway, and
"The specifics of the discussion were secret — but, as I report in my book, Thiel later told a confidant that Zuckerberg came to an understanding with Kushner during the meal. Facebook, he promised, would avoid fact-checking political speech — thus allowing the Trump campaign to claim whatever it
I’m going to start kicking off my week with a list of thoughts and actions. Join me! Thoughts 1. There was a time when the web was really fun: a new medium that people approached with a sense of play. Even TechCrunch, back when it was a blog run
I’m looking for a writer’s group that meets some or all of the following characteristics: It’s completely private. Everyone agrees that nothing leaves the group. It’s almost all asynchronous. No Zoom write-ins, etc. Every month there’s a check-in where you can read aloud
"When it hit me that my correspondent was the same Ted Kaczynski who’d killed three people he’d never met, I felt a shiver of recollection of the fear that prevailed in the Bay Area in the 1970s, during the heyday of serial killers such as the Zodiac,
I’m obsessed with this kind of thing: an author self-publishing across various media using the internet as a kind of canvas. So obsessed that I really want to try it myself. [Link]