A Unified Theory of Why Money Makes No Sense Right Now
A theory as to why the rent is too damn high and a potato salad is ten thousand dollars and Uber is ten billion dollars and you’ll have to buy reservations for restaurants like concert tickets and...
View ArticleHow to Work for the Enemy and Feel Just Fine
People drop things on the Internet and run all the time. So we have to ask. In this edition, writer and co-founder of The Toast Mallory Ortberg tells us more about what it’s like to work at a famous...
View ArticleBalance of Power
Equilibrium in nature: The proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger, announced in February, has set off a wave of activity in the media industry, with AT&T Inc. announcing a $48.5 billion deal for...
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Content Distributed
Near the end of Mike Isaac’s boldly headlined piece on the fifty million dollars that BuzzFeed has raised from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and what it plans to do with it, he notes:...
View ArticleSoftware Efficient
The consequences of human workers becoming just another piece in the long chain of an algorithm optimized for efficiency above all else In Brooklyn, Sandianna Irvine often works “on call” hours at...
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Economy Shared
The Times has published its third or so major piece on the part-time and gig economy in nearly as many weeks—this one focussed on those employed by apps, commonly known as members of the “sharing...
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"It's Uber, but for Golden Parachutes"
The two-way path between government, politics, and private industry, densely shaded by lush money trees, is so well-worn it seems to have been carved by the finger of God, a well-known capitalist, long...
View ArticleLocal Ballet Enthusiast Explains Patronage
“One reason is that the left-wing Democrats highly enjoy calling me an evil Koch brother, and the contributions I make in these many areas are tremendously worthy. It sends a message to the political...
View ArticleBook Tells You What Money Is
“Rising inequality is not a law of nature – it’s not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed,” writes John Lanchester....
View ArticleA New York Superlative
The mean income of the top 5 percent of households in Manhattan soared 9 percent in 2013 over 2012, giving Manhattan the biggest dollar income gap of any county in the country, according to data from...
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Enterprise-Grade Media Encoding Using the Yo Smartphone App: A White Paper
A Guide To Converting Empty Transients Into Stateful Bits TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract Precedents and Prior Art 2.1) Pulse Code Modulation 2.2) The Nyquist Theorem 2.3) Sony® Direct Stream Digital™...
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Cash and Anxiety on the Weird New Internet
Welcome to ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴡᴀʀs, an occasional column intended to keep a majority of ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ coverage in one easily avoidable place. Here is something that is not quite missing but also not all the way present...
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Mood Disrupted
Each quarter a gaggle of Bay Area venture capitalists are asked, you know, how does everything feel? Aside from totally great, of course. What’s your sense of things, other than that you are changing...
View ArticleTimes Boom
Nearly fifty million more dollars has been administered to Vox Media—publisher of websites, producer of content—bringing its total raise up to about one hundred ten million, and its valuation to about...
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The Trailer Park at the Center of the Universe
The longest road in California is El Camino Real, a six-hundred-mile route that once connected twenty-one Spanish missions from San Diego to Sonoma. While the state began to pave over the road in the...
View ArticlePower Sides With Power
In the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the CIA saved American lives http://t.co/N9RDUCw5Yt see http://t.co/Ah8ZYm8UeN #supporttheCIA — Ron Conway (@RonConway) December 9, 2014 To apprehend the...
View ArticleProcess Grueling
What is it like to be a startup that venture capitalists have determined is worth at least a billion dollars? Jyoti Bansal, CEO, AppDynamics: “It’s not like winning the lottery. There’s not a phone...
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Blizzard-Hoarding at the Gowanus Whole Foods
The scene last night: It was not pretty. “We don’t have lettuce—all we have is spinach and kale” is something I heard a hot dad say last night in the Gowanus Whole Foods regarding the state of his...
View ArticleWhere Money Comes From
“The Times examination reveals the workings of an opaque economy for this global wealth. Lacking incentive or legal obligation to identify the sources of money, an entire chain of people involved in...
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The $5750-a-Month Financial District Loft With Heated Bathroom Floors
Welcome to Surreal Estate, a new column in which we will explore listings from the tumultuous New York City real estate market. 67 Liberty Street, #6 • $5,750/month • 1,246 square feet • 1 Bed, 1.5...
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