Fair warning: It’s Tuesday, I have deadlines to meet, and I just brain dumped all of this in like 2 hours. I’m not editing it, I’m sorry. This is in response to The Fleishman Effect, which ran on The
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images It’s difficult to narrativize Silicon Valley history. Narratives usually have a rising and falling action. Conflicts build, peak, resolve. The e
Hi! Dan and Nathan here. Early in 2020, we launched the Everything Bundle, a Substack devoted to productivity and business strategy. We started with two newsletters, Superorganizers and Divinations, w
I grew up lower-middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did th
I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired by Google Cloud. The acquiring team and executives welcomed us and treated us well. We joined with gr
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I'm taking pictures with a camera again. 📸 Back When Five Hundred Dollars Got You a 5MP camera About fifteen years ago I walked away from digital photography for a couple of different reasons. First,
Banking is a confidence trick. Financial history is littered with runs, for the straightforward reason that no bank can survive if enough depositors want to be repaid at the same time. The trick, ther
An expert on antitrust and Big Tech and author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age , Timothy Wu , Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, joined the Biden administ
Ascension An all-female factory floor that manufactures made-to-order sex dolls (which seems every bit as titillating as crafting car parts). A workshop featuring a social media entrepreneur who rhaps
New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director and producer. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Unde
It is a common enough complaint that education levels are falling, public standards declining, and our intellectual diet of Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video—with occasional sides of HBO—is mak
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. I. She was very lat
On January 18, a prominent financial newsletter noted that if Silicon Valley Bank were liquidated that day, “it would be functionally underwater.” Months before the nation’s 16th-largest bank collapse
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