Bloomberg Businessweek‘s latest cover story highlights the tricky economics of licensing live sports.
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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Crime, Current Events, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘What Do You Say To People Who Think They Have Nothing to Hide?’
Nathan Wessler, a lawyer with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, monitors a government that increasingly monitors its citizens.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Reading List
We’re Living in the Golden Age of the Corporate Takedown
Why do we love reading about CEOs behaving badly? Perhaps it’s because we identify with their exhausted workers.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Can Amazon’s Alexa Be Your Friend?
A look at the rise of digital assistants, and how Alexa is not only getting smarter, but becoming an emotional companion for people who face loneliness and social anxiety.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Vegan Mayo that Dare Not Speak its Name
Why is a vegan-food startup avoiding the term “vegan”?
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
When Is an Internet Company Evil?
What is Facebook *really* about? Surveillance and advertising, not about “the power to build community” as its new mission statement so disingenuously puts it.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
The Hotel of Multiple Realities
While recovering from an aneurysm, Emily Carter Roiphe discovers the hospital houses a series of alternate realms.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Hotel of Multiple Realities
While recovering from an aneurysm, Emily Carter Roiphe discovers the hospital houses a series of alternate realms.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Podcasts
How Would Jesus Treat Tech Workers Moving into an Impoverished Neighborhood? Love Them.
In Wired, Chris Colin writes about the determined reverend whose church provides services to the Tenderloin’s most disenfranchised residents, and helps gentrifying tech industry workers engage with the marginalized neighbors their presence directly effects.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
How Wells Fargo Bankers Gamed Customers to Make Sales Goals
In 2016, Wells Fargo paid a $185 million fine for alleged fraud on its own customers without an admission of guilt. Has anything changed?
