Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Bold Italic, a local San Francisco site, surprised its audience yesterday by announcing that it was shutting down. “Together we have built a strong community of followers, contributors, and partners. However, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations,” the site said in a post announcing its closure. “It’s been a great run…
In San Francisco’s “culture war,” both sides espouse oddly similar-sounding values. Credit Illustration by Christian Gralingen In the spiritual geography of San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall—a glass-and-concrete half rotunda much resembling R2-D2’s neckline—sits between hills steep with layered mansions and the urban basin where the city’s gritty elements now rest. John Adams’s “Harmonielehre” premièred here;…
Start Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset End Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset Start Component ID: 146 – Article Page: Image Gallery Begin Photos Enlarge Photo Jin Lee / Bloomberg News Jeremy Stoppelman, chief executive officer of Yelp Inc., speaks during an interview at the New…
Story highlights David Wheeler: Silicon Valley doesn’t create jobs; it’s wiping out middle-class jobs Young college graduates are struggling with lack of jobs, yet many still idolize Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is tossing millennials aside like yesterday’s laptop. The commonly held belief is that with hard work and a good education, a young person in…
Photo: St. Pauli Pinklet Zurück via SFGate No one wants to confront a public urinator. Aside from the sketchy stranger factor, any good samaritan-slash-neighborhood nag will have the laws of hydraulics working against them and should thus think twice, for the same reasons you don’t sneak up behind someone operating a garden hose. In effort…
Start Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset End Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset Start Component ID: 146 – Article Page: Image Gallery Begin Photos View Photos With competition for tech talent at unprecedented levels, the sky’s the limit for young employees with the right skills. Begin…
$8,000 each month with another $3,000 for housing. Welcome to the life of a Silicon Valley intern. Six-figure salaries. Flexible hours. Luxury housing. Ah, the life of an intern. This past weekend, high school senior Tiffany Zhong, the chief product officer of the app Glimpse and one of the tech industry’s “55 Unknown Rock Stars”…
An FBI crackdown and skyrocketing rents in San Francisco are forcing them to take side jobs—like driving for Uber—or leave. It’s a story built for headlines: Monied men in Silicon Valley create a demand for highly compensated sex work that can easily be coordinated using the same apps and services they create at their desk…
Would making all of this taller actually solve the affordability problem? (By Flickr user @sage_solar, via Creative Commons Attribution license) In San Francisco, pretty much everyone agrees on one thing: The city’s housing is crazy expensive. Apartment-hunting causes its own form of PTSD. The rent, to put it simply, is too damn high. But even…
Start Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset End Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset Start Component ID: 146 – Article Page: Image Gallery Begin Photos Enlarge Photo Conner Jay Sonja Trauss, the founder of San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation, holds up a pro-development sign at 75…