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The Year of the Wet Pillow

The Year of the Wet Pillow

The language of heat cannot be contained in the confines of climate. Heat is an exploitation issue. Heat is a labor issue. Heat — whether they have woken up to it or not — heat is a corporate issue.

The Dodo’s Bargain: Trading Flight for Certainty

The Dodo’s Bargain: Trading Flight for Certainty

Two years of Snowbird, the death of ambition, and the instinct to reject the template.

Pets are about to get weird

Pets are about to get weird

Don't want a baby? How about a mango pit instead?

The ghost in the shell is you

The ghost in the shell is you

When you talk to a doll, it's just a doll. But when a doll talks back, it's a mirror. A look into how our loneliness and our oldest fears are being monetized.

Flyways: Capitalism, but make it anime

Flyways: Capitalism, but make it anime

Why do we love Anime so much, and why someone else is paying for it

We're back with Flyways: Where's the rice?

We're back with Flyways: Where's the rice?

The world changed a lot in five months huh?

A year of emails finding me well

A year of emails finding me well

One year on the road.

five finds: save this for Monday, and the next few years

five finds: save this for Monday, and the next few years

Never has the world waited with bated breath for another country's inauguration. It has never been more important to stay aware, yet it has never been this exhausting to stay plugged-in. You need a plan.

five finds: dragging us back

five finds: dragging us back

What we get wrong about being in back in the office

five finds: the algorithmic treadmill

five finds: the algorithmic treadmill

relationships need room to grow, so does your content

five finds: robot kindergarten

five finds: robot kindergarten

they grow up so fast

The RTO doom loop

The RTO doom loop

If employees have been working from home effectively, forcing them to return to the office can create a doom loop of lack of trust and lower performance. Focusing instead on their outcomes and giving them workplace flexibility can inspire a boom loop in engagement.

five finds: dial it back

five finds: dial it back

new isn't always better

skill is losing

skill is losing

Artificial Intelligence breeds natural stupidity

five finds: on the use(lessness) of polling

five finds: on the use(lessness) of polling

they're just not what they used to be