Do you like your car? How much do you like your car? Would you potentially drive your car toward a child to prove that your car is the best, safest car on the market? If the answer is no, you have successfully passed the “normal person” test that Whole Mars…

When I was a kid, I was diagnosed with a condition called dyspraxia — a motor-coordinational learning disability that means that writing by hand, while also incredibly hard to read, is both physically and mentally painful for me. Every time I pick up a pen to write something longer than…

After waiting several months and coming up with at least 4 different justifications as to why I “needed” another games console, I finally received my Steam Deck from Valve. …

I was on a brief vacation last week, and while talking with a friend I’d met there, I heard them talk about how their friends were from work, or from where they grew up, or through their family. It was a nice, normal conversation until I was asked where I…

A recent study by Carta said that around 84% of startups adjust compensation based on location. My deep, considered analysis is as followed: This is a colossally fucking stupid idea. Despite writing about a hundred thousand words about management, both on this newsletter and for The Atlantic and Business Insider…

Today Business Insider ran my story around how companies need to rethink how we hire, train and evaluate managers and bosses, and I wanted to take you all a level deeper into where I think this problem truly resides. In my working life, I have mostly been beset by some…

Thanks to the strange way people can now make money, I have learned something — During the pandemic, as many people did, I decided I wanted to take up a hobby, and by “take up a hobby” I mean “actually plug in and try and use the MIDI keyboard and learn piano.” I’d tried roughly four different times in my life to play, and each…

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…