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The undercurrents of the future. A publication from Medium about technology and people.

An exploration of the essence we share online, and how to cast our magical powers responsibly.

Interviews with 14 current and former employees paint a portrait of dysfunction and indecision as the publishing platform pivots again.

A rather length blog post, which attempts to address some of the concerns about NFTs from an artist point of view

Let’s make a scene and rebel against Big Tech

The Pritzker prize, once reserved for flamboyant creators of icons, has gone to Lacaton & Vassal, whose rallying cry is: ‘Never demolish, never remove – always add, transform and reuse’

A few things I've learned about email marketing

Culture tells us bodies like mine are impossible to love. Don’t believe it.

How shipping containers made distance irrelevant.

In December of 2015, Gimlet Media, wasn’t selling food delivery infrastructure, or proprietary algorithms—the company’s value was the promise of industrializating storytelling at scale. The engineering adage goes: “Faster, better, cheaper—pick two.” Having been at the company, it was clear that Giml

I remember AIDS. I'm older than you probably think I am, and I remember what AIDS in America meant in the eighties, when William F. Buckley suggested all "carriers" be tattooed, and the Wizard of Id got in trouble in Canada (fr) for a joke in which Robbing Hood's "Merry Men" were rounded up into…

The lonely poverty of America’s white working class

Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity

Progress and accumulation of facts or points on the western timeline always comes at the expense of Black lives.

Successful leadership is a balancing act between exploration and exploration. Leaders need to cultivate an ambidextrous mindset to avoid the success trap.

Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.

In a jobs economy that has become something of a grim joke, nothing seems quite so bleak as the digital job seeker’s all-but-obligatory LinkedIn account.

Did you know that the founder of BuzzFeed predicted that we'd all be yelling at each other about ADHD 25 years ago (kinda)?

At age 39, painter John Baldessari took his entire life's work of landscape paintings and lit it ablaze.

This is part of a series of posts/etc about Roguelike Celebration 2020! If you like this, you may als...

Tech oligarchs are encouraging the creation of virtual worlds as a cheap way to avoid problems in the real one.

The skilled manipulator casts a shadow of doubt over everything that you feel or think. Therapy can bring the daylight in

NCIS probes revealed evidence that U.S. sailors were housing prostitutes in their apartments, seizing the women’s passports and taking a cut of their earnings ― profiting from the sex trade that services shipmates in Bahrain.

How a lean tech stack can help you avoid the perils task switching and information silos