The iPhone X Proves How Tim Cook’s Apple Is Embracing the Rich
Ten percent of Americans earn half of all income—and Apple wants to appeal to them...
Silicon ValleyA collection of 75 posts
Uber’s Days Are Numbered — With or Without Travis Kalanick
The company’s bro-culture is losing them customers. But there are more fundamental flaws in its business model...
Hyperloop Is Not Our Public-Transportation Messiah — It’s Just Another Tech Swindle
The evidence suggests that Elon Musk’s much ballyhooed proposal is about getting rich off freight, not public transit....
Just Because I’m Not in Tech Doesn’t Make Me Clueless
Stop techsplaining the world to me—just because I don’t work in the industry doesn’t mean I don’t understand...
I Left SF for the Peninsula, and I Don’t Miss It
“Why do you live in the middle of nowhere,” you ask? Here’s why....
Kids Review Soylent
We gave children the meal-replacement powder and recorded the results....
Silicon Valley’s Outsourcing Addiction
Tech companies use H-1B visas to exploit immigrant labor, but proposed changes could make it fairer for everyone...
Tech Leaders Plan to Run from the Havoc Caused by Economic Disruption
Some tech scions have chosen to abandon ship rather than help solve major social problems....
Weekly Roundup: Trump Versus the Bay
Remember when Trump went through that temper-tantrum stage when he’d yell, “No federal funds!” every time someone progressive did...
How Silicon Valley Decimated the Middle Class and Fueled the Rise of Trump
Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as a bastion of progressive social values. Indeed, tech CEOs regularly speak out...
What Non-Tech Workers Think Tech Jargon Means
It’s like a language everyone is speaking, but hardly anyone knows what it means...
“Chaos Monkeys” Author: Other Cities Would Love to Have San Francisco’s “Problems”
Call Antonio García Martínez whatever you want, but don’t call him boring. The Chaos Monkeys author instantly became public...