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058 24 Jul Sustainability shmustainability 057 10 Jul Salesforce is acquiring Fin, a move that isn't so much a bet as it is a ploy 056 05 Jul Best of Bad Job Bingo: AI Dystopia Edition 055 26 Jun From the Archives: Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! 054 15 Jun I rate AI jobs while the saxophone gets louder 053 12 Jun Zendesk made a big mistake, Meta was hoisted by its own petard, and Elon is a trillionaire 052 08 Jun Things get a little, shall we say, hysterical 051 05 Jun beehiiv’s Tyler Denk Reminds Us That Tech Is Just Assholes All the Way Down 050 01 May From the Archives: We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 049 27 Apr Best of Bad Job Bingo: Fun Edition 048 11 Apr No new issue this week 047 05 Apr Everything is just really effing weird this week, y'all 046 03 Apr Maybe it's all just an elaborate April Fool's joke? 045 28 Mar Moving house and cleaning house 044 20 Mar Taking the weekend off 043 15 Mar Something's in the water (or the AI) 042 13 Mar Zendesk's buying, Intercom's raising, Meta's cutting, Bluesky's growing, and Digg is dying. It's fine. Everything's fine 041 11 Mar Bad Time Zoo 040 09 Mar A migraine-inducing issue 039 06 Mar The price is wrong 038 02 Mar I'm just a crazy woman on the internet 037 26 Feb Cry havoc and all that 036 23 Feb Watch me commit to the bit until the bit commits me 035 16 Feb A little late night foray into Careers page hell 034 13 Feb Half-assed is better than no-assed? Also: companies are in AI wonderland 033 11 Feb This'll be as big as Bad Bunny's halftime show, right? Right? 032 08 Feb In which I yell about capitalism. Again 031 03 Feb It's happening! Everyone stay calm 030 06 Apr In which there's a new, very special, rating 029 30 Mar On free speech and economic engines 028 23 Mar Work, monkey, work 027 04 Nov You Have, In Your Hands, A Fire Extinguisher 026 19 Oct Blah blah woof woof capitalism 025 06 Oct These companies are really just phoning it in 024 04 Oct The Hollow Man 023 22 Sep In which we’re practicing the art of taking cover from the storm 022 14 Sep In which it's all about the Benjamins, and we have our highest expletive-to-jobs ratio ever. Plus: we get our first audience-rated job 021 08 Sep In which we quickly go off the rails 020 04 Sep The Cursed Edit 019 31 Aug Bit of a rollercoaster, this one 018 28 Aug Happy National Power Rangers Day! 017Issue has a podcast episode — drives /podcast/ and the archive chip (20 §1) 23 Aug Come out of the water. It's nicer up here 016 11 Aug Not Your Techbro's AI LinkedIn Post 015 11 Aug Bad Job Bingo: Beware the Funhouse 014 11 Aug We Need to Talk About the Elephant 013Issue has a podcast episode — drives /podcast/ and the archive chip (20 §1) 11 Aug Exit, Pursued By A Bear 012Issue has a podcast episode — drives /podcast/ and the archive chip (20 §1) 23 Jul You Can Do Business With Hitler 011 01 Jul The Music vs. The Machines"Your writing feels refreshingly real in a world of polished nonsense. Thanks much for continuing to say things many quietly think but rarely articulate, Steph."
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