How venture capital fattened up startup culture to sell on the public markets — and brought out the bolt gun when things got tough | Continue reading
Listen now (17 mins) | Welcome to the fifth episode of 15 Minutes In Hell. Today’s guest is TV writer David Slack (credits include Person of Interest, Teen Titans, Law & Order, Lie To Me, Jackie Chan Adventures, and Dark Crystal), who was also on the Writer’s Guild of … | Continue reading
On a 1910 trip to Paris, Theodore Roosevelt delivered his famous speech about “The Man In The Arena,” which has since been widely adopted by a very specific kind of Silicon Valley cretin. It’s quite a long speech, but here’s the part that they love to shar … | Continue reading
Listen now (16 mins) | Welcome to the fourth episode of 15 Minutes In Hell. Today’s guest is actor and comedian Rob Corddry who you might know from Hot Tub Time Machine, Ballers, and The Upright Citizens Brigade. We talked about how the internet has changed comedy, the Holl … | Continue reading
When TIME named Elon Musk as its 2021 Person of the Year, it referred to him as someone who “aspires to save our planet... [a] clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P.T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen’ … | Continue reading
Listen now (16 mins) | Welcome to episode three of 15 Minutes In Hell. Today’s guest is Taylor Lorenz, columnist at The Washington Post and author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet, available for preorder now and releasing O … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will never fight. Over the weekend, Mark Zuckerberg made a statement on Threads stating that “we can all agree that Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on.” Elon Musk — after biographer Walter Isaacson shared them f … | Continue reading
Listen now (15 mins) | Welcome to the second episode of 15 Minutes In Hell. Today’s guest is Derek Guy, known as “The Menswear Guy” or @dieworkwear (https://twitter.com/dieworkwear) on Twitter. He’s written for the Washington Post, Financial Times, Esquire … | Continue reading
There's gotta be someway back to earth I'm drifting away as the world turns We'll never get back to where we were Facing oblivion, there's no words We are, as a society, in mourning. The last three years were a conscious attempt to return to a form of normal — a pre-2019, p … | Continue reading
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After three months of striking, the AMPTP has reached out to the Writers Guild of America to resume negotiations this Friday. They’re looking to bring an end to a strike that has already cost the entertainment industry billions because entertainment executives refused to ev … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is symbolic of the economic nihilism of the business world | Continue reading
The problem with making a new social network is that (as I’ve related before) you are only really selling a place. While you can stomp your feet and yell that you’re providing a service and that the value is the platform, the reality is that without an active, interes … | Continue reading
How Facebook's IPO was the beginning of the rot in social media | Continue reading
The concept of “free” social networking is a kind of unspoken social-fiscal contract that only exists as long as operators understand the value that users are creating. A user posts for “free,” but recognizes that they are a user rather than a customer. | Continue reading
Years before OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded, killing five people in the process, a former employee filed a counterclaim alleging that the company fired him for raising concerns about the vehicle's safety. In addition to terminating the plaintiff (David Lochridge, th … | Continue reading
My personal inbox, as it stands, is largely useless. Of the 100 emails I can see at a glance, two of them are things I asked for — changes to a profile, an order receipt – and the rest are adverts from companies that I have absolutely unsubscribed from. | Continue reading
“To face down your demons, you’ve got to free them.” The last six months have felt like a perpetual threat — a looming doom that never quite transformed into something tangible. We have all been waiting for something to break — for us to enter a rece … | Continue reading
If you are wilfully violating securities law, I have some advice: do not put “we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange” in a message to another party, and if you absolutely must do so, do not say “bro” at the end. Sadly this advice came t … | Continue reading
Last week, the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health issued a stark warning that “while social media may have benefits for some children and adolescents, there are ample indicators that [it] can also have a profound risk of harm to [t … | Continue reading