Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins trial, which went to jury deliberations yesterday, is a milestone case and it may well be a milestone verdict. Not just because $160 million in possible compensatory and punitive damages is an awful lot of money, but also because this is the highest-profile example yet of Silicon Valley’s boys club on…
On Tuesday, my fiancé and I took our daughters out of school, canceled my meetings for the day, and, for the first time, walked into the San Francisco Superior Court. Our mission: To hear the closing arguments of the Ellen Pao discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Truth be told, I have been…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Slack, the super-slick team chat-room service, is getting popular fast. Word around the rumor mill is that it’s currently raising funds at a $2.8 billion valuation. And in the words of the late, great Biggie Smalls: Mo Money, Mo Problems. In the case of startups, success can make your databases a juicy…
On shirts, they’re on the left for the ladies and on the right for the gents. That’s because of horses, babies, and Napoleon. Mars and Venus, in shirts (J. Crew/The Atlantic) “Are you wearing lady clothes?” Darryl Philbin asked Michael Scott. INSERT IN_ARTICLE AD No, the regional manager of the fictional Dunder Mifflin insisted: His…
At the American Copy Editors Society’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh today, updates to and new entries in the 2015 Associated Press Stylebook are being revealed. This news will not affect you at all. But I think it’s interesting, so go to hell. Tons of newspapers, magazines, and websites rely on the 62-year-old AP Stylebook. It’s…
Gillian Anderson has spoken publicly before about her unwillingness to settle, and it seems that determination has paid off: in a recent interview with The Telegraph, the once and future X-Files star explained “I’m so lucky to have such great work. I’ve got a fantastic life, I have a wonderful relationship with my kids, and…
Photo A mural by Max Spivak at the base of the 5 Bryant Park office tower in Manhattan includes shapes that appear abstract at first, but closer inspection reveals them to be textile makers’ tools, like a T-square, above the entrance. Credit Michael Appleton for The New York Times The shadows of West 40th Street…
People who complain that the shambling new Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart comedy “Get Hard” is racist and homophobic are just being lazy – although not half as lazy as the movie itself, which has brought this fate on itself through its mixed messaging and total incoherence. Yes, this is the motion picture in which Ferrell’s character…
A student holds up a sign during Wednesday’s meeting of the UNC Board of Trustees. Photo by Tasia Harris | The Huffington Post Entry Text Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are renewing a push for the school to change the name of a building named after a 19th-century Ku Klux…
I hate to break it to you, Apple executives, but you do not own the story of Steve Jobs. Even Steve Jobs didn’t own it, because there is no singular, definitive story of Steve Jobs, or anyone else. Rather, there are multiple stories, and in his case, deeply polarized takes on his managerial style, interpersonal…