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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
Developers are sitting in front of design documents for games that will never be produced somewhere—in a Santa Monica office park, a Stockholm studio campus, or a converted warehouse in Austin that was once referred to as a creative hub. Before they were made public, the projects were canceled. After…
There is a location in the Pacific Ocean where the water temperature is slightly above freezing and the seafloor is located about four kilometers below the surface, roughly halfway between Hawaii and the western coast of Mexico. It is not exposed to sunlight. No moonlight. Not a single star. Most…
Imagine a midsize office in Columbus, Austin, or Charlotte. It would have an open floor plan, a snack wall, and a #random Slack channel that no one uses anymore. The desks are occupied. The meetings are taking place. We are scheduling the quarterly reviews. Everything appears to be more or…