The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth The President is being forced to give up his attempt to overturn the election. But he will continue his efforts to build an alternative reality around himself. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/07/the-cost-of-trumps-assault-on-the-press-and-the-truth But Trump knew precisely what he was doing, and he never let…

The Scammer Who Wanted to Save His Country Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/brazil-hacker-bolsonaro-car-wash-leaks/ “Oh yeah, don’t worry about that. They’ll never catch me,” the source boasted. He said he was using multiple…

Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them … via Literary Hub: https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/ The implication is the usual one: we—urban multiethnic liberal-to-radical only-partly-Christian America—need to spend…

Inside the spectacular startup failure of Oomba Strip clubs, board games, sugar babies, an office coup — and a whole lot of money via The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/21571690/oomba-startup-work-environment-sex-lies-video-games-gameworks-exworks I reviewed thousands of pages of documents and spoke with over 30 sources about Williams and Oomba, including investors, employees, and business partners. Most described him as narcissistic,…

How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism Even the worst-run startup can beat competitors if investors prop it up. The V.C. firm Benchmark helped enable WeWork to make one wild mistake after another—hoping that its gamble would pay off before disaster struck. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/how-venture-capitalists-are-deforming-capitalism However, as reports of WeWork’s oddities began appearing in…

How a Deadly Police Force Ruled a City After years of impunity, the police in Vallejo, California, took over the city’s politics and threatened its people. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-a-deadly-police-force-ruled-a-city Vallejo, a postindustrial city of a hundred and twenty-two thousand people, is best known for its Six Flags amusement park and for its musicians: E-40,…

The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise-and-fall-of-getting-things-done The ability to better visualize work would also enable smarter processes. If you notice that the influx of administrative demands from other parts of your company is overwhelming you and your co-workers, you’re now motivated…