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The Scum Economy
On May 17, 2023, Grumpy Cat Limited, the extremely litigious corporation that owns the rights to the famous memes “Nyan Cat” and “Grumpy Cat,” served a…
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Elon's Tragic Kingdom
Elon Musk has announced Twitter’s new CEO – the former Chair of Advertising at NBCUniversal Linda Yaccarino, who interviewed him onstage at a marketing…
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Artificial Labor
As we speak, we are entering a historical battle between actual labor – those who create value in organizations and the world itself – and the petty…
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Absentee Capitalism
When I wrote The Rot Economy, I spoke to the fundamental problem in modern business — the pursuit of eternal growth at all costs. This cancerous…
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April 2023
Checked Out
When I was a kid, I wanted to be popular. I wasn’t popular, obviously. I was overweight, I had a personality that oscillated between friendly and moody…
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Fire Mark Zuckerberg
When Mark Zuckerberg announced in October 2021 that Facebook would now be known as “Meta,” many people fell for several astonishingly obvious lies. As I…
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Falling With Style
Elon Musk is playing make-believe as an executive.
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Post-Bull Depression
The vibes in everything are off at the moment. My own vibes. Work’s vibes. Everybody feels exhausted. There is a malaise over everybody in tech, with a…
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March 2023
Free Bird
I joined Twitter a few months after I moved to America. It was a place that awkwardly blended the serendipity of online spaces with a reasonably…
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The Uncanny Valley
It has been a truly bizarre week. We’ve watched three banks die, and then a fourth bank almost died (Credit Suisse) before being scooped up by UBS for…
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Bank Men, Freed
When I started work on this piece, I was writing about Silvergate bank, one of the only banks willing to do business with “digital asset companies…
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Disruption Killed Innovation
Despite its very obvious trust and safety issues, seemingly every major company is trying to cram generative AI into their roadmap. Snap, for whatever…
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