Please note: this will include spoilers for Final Fantasy 7: Remake. I am sick and tired of seriousness in media. To be clear, “serious” does not mean “no humor and no emotion,” but an eery blandness that scrapes away anything above a certain emotional register. If you want to know…

We stand now on the precipice of one of the darkest corrections I have seen in tech since I started by PR career in 2008 — a combination of a likely recession and industrial hubris on a scale that is only as bad as it is because of how good…

When I first learned about Bitcoin sometime in the early 2010s, I didn’t invest in it because I couldn’t find a meaningful way it improved my (or anybody else’s) life. It was slow, ugly, clunky and used by the kinds of people that I hadn’t seen since I used Usenet…

If you are on Twitter, which depending on your background, history and sanity I would either recommend or expressly ask you not to be, you will likely have seen an AT&T advertisement with actress Milana Vayntrub. At least once a day I am served a very normal advertisement featuring Ms…

Every few years, sometimes in sync with recessions and sometimes far outside of them, Silicon Valley experiences a wave of hubris related to how one does or does not run a business. It’s very simple: Silicon Valley occasionally experiences a foie gras-esque phenomenon where they choose a particular industry or…

We live in interesting times, specifically times that involve the cryptocurrency markets partially or completely unravelling. We are currently experiencing a crash of sorts, but it’s not apparent whether this is a crash or “the” crash — the latter being similar to the 2017 crash that brought Bitcoin from a…

If you ask the average executive about their employees’ mental health, they’ll usually say something related to wellness, mindfulness, or “self care.” If pushed further, said executive will refer to the HR department, or perhaps to some sort of nebulous internal program to “help employees deal with the stress of…

As a premise, Severance’s seems simple: you can choose to go and work for the Lumon Corporation, but part of the catch is that your work self must be “severed” from your personal life. When you descend the elevator into the office (after getting the surgery), you switch to a…

If you want to see a real life version of the media attempting to intimidate and censor someone, Taylor Lorenz is a great example — and to be clear, I mean the character assassination and continual pressure put on her from right wing media. The situation in question refers to…