Medium’s recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health.
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20 years in, a "professional" rollout, and only 2k streams. This was my last hurrah and I’m feeling defeated.
325 votes, 326 comments. I’m struggling to process a massive disconnect and need some perspective from other career artists. I’ve been in the…
True resilience is not about bouncing back | Psyche Ideas
I hate talk of resilience: it places an expectation on people to return to how they were. That’s not how real recovery works
Four Months Later, My Head Is Quiet - Ewan’s Blog
I didn’t realise how much of my baseline was illness until parts of it disappeared.
The Real Story Of How I Sold Two Startups, The Chaos Afterwards, And What’s Next – The Health Care Blog
Today we’re starting a series of more personal stories, looking at what makes interesting people in health care tick. Alex Carmichael is a rare multiple time CEO in health technology, and she has a very interesting tale to tell–Matthew Holt
More Everything Forever
This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...
It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself
Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.
Being kicked out of the tech industry - Jacky Alciné
After 250 job applications in four months, I'm giving up.
“This Is A Bigger Deal Than Jesus”: The Return of Grimes
After a decade of putting out self-produced art pop that made her one of music’s most singular figures, she abruptly left the industry amid personal life chaos. Now she's back with a new album, and, as she tells sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor, a little AI psychosis.
Beacon Press: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.
I got into tech six years ago because I figured I could have an outsized impact on making a less harmful, more empowering world for workers and marginalised people. Only this year, I started connecting IRL with people who think this way. Here I tried to write about the ways that's transformed me.
DWeb, Culture and Resistance
meri.gardenRecently, we escaped the AT-Bubble to chat with some of the world's most successful game developers and publishers. The whiplash was sharp... 😅 Beyond this network, The Atmosphere is largely unknown and there's some scary risks keeping others from joining the FUN. Our reality check, in blog form:
Vibe Check: Effort, Risk, and Games in The Atmosphere
rpg.actorthanks Maria! A little bird tells me the epilogue in my piece describes exactly what happened (someone at bsky allegedly read my article and increased their rate limit). I have a name, I need to see if they're willing to go on the record. So even the fix allegedly didn't come from W engineers LOOOL
