How to Lose All Hope in a Work Appropriate Manner
what happens when the world crumbles slowly? A time of endless uncertainty. When we’ve blown through our mental health days and we’re expected back to work on Monday? When we…
How GM Enabled Modern Capitalism — and Environmental Crisis
In this system, one of the worst things a company can do is to make a cheap product that lasts a long time. If they do, where will the year-over-year…
Strategic Knowledge
While companies feign ignorance about marginalized users on their sites, these savvy users flip the script, developing strategic knowledge about the platforms they frequent. Strategic knowledge is an imaginative praxis…
Prioritizing Survival: Why Climate Action Is Our Most Urgent Concern
That’s what the struggle against climate change is about: fighting to maintain some form of organized human life on our planet. And as we are seeing now, working people are…
Please Stop Telling Your Kids to Have a Plan B
To be totally honest, some of you may not be the best gauge of what your child is capable of without some evidence on the table. Most people of certain…
Laziness Does Not Exist
If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without…
Disturbing Animal Facts
by Aimee Parkison and Meg Pokrass “She was told that she had nine million babies inside of her. Her womb held a continent.” These insane animal facts create a narrative…
The product Facebook sells is you – Ben Wolford – Medium
Congress and tech companies are eager for an easy PR victory, but requiring advertiser disclosures won’t solve what’s wrong. Innovation for innovation’s sake is wrong. Innovation for shareholder’s sake is…
How I Missed Out On Over $350,000 Working in Technology
It’s been a weird and windy road since my 11-year-old-self lost a chess match to an IBM 360 in 1970. Let me be upfront about this — my degree is…