What a fascinating product Apple’s new AirPods Max are. At $550, they are indisputably expensive, and at 385 grams, they are undeniably heavy. They’re also, indisputably, very nice. Apple sent me a pa
December 2020 Jessica and I have certain words that have special significancewhen we're talking about startups. The highest compliment we canpay to founders is to describe them as "earnest." This is n
white house memo The last act of the Trump presidency has taken on the stormy elements of a drama more common to history or literature than a modern White House. President Trump in the Oval Office on
Building a product that allows for significant improvements in how people communicate requires a degree of thoughtfulness and craftsmanship that is not common in the development of enterprise software
Photos by Wally Nowinski I recently went to visit my friends who just moved to Seattle. I stayed in their rented row house in an upscale neighborhood called Queen Anne. And it was there that I saw a v
At 10:37 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, I wrote myself an email: “Nate [Silver] and Micah [Cohen] just told me Clinton is probably going to lose, that she’s an underdog … collapse in the Midwest.”
2020 has been a wild ride. I’ve stayed in New York City the whole time and have watched the COVID-19 waves come and go and come back again. While being stuck at home more often than not, I’ve found a
Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Slack’s life as an underdog darling of Silicon Valley ended on November 2nd, 2016. That’s when the upstart communication startup published an open letter to Microsoft
I am sure that you have heard that Salesforce is buying Slack for a whopping $28 billion by now. And if you saw Marc Benioff in conversation with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang this morning, you could tell t
December 2020 As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to findthat two separate essays I'd been planning to write were actuallythe same. The first is about how to ace your Y Combina
A quick rebuttal on the Slackforce Slacklash M.G. Siegler Dec 3, 2020 · 5 min read Look, it’s late. And everyone is happy enough so there’s no pressing need to weigh in here. And you should take every
“All great ages have left a record of themselves in their styles of building. Why should we not try to find a style for ourselves?” — Karl Schinkel Have you noticed how much of the world now looks lik
Many young Chinese workers prioritise leisure time over sleep after long work days – even though they know it’s unhealthy. What’s driving this behaviour? E Emma Rao spent almost three years on China’s
I think that by now most people are aware that the journalism you read in the wake of something like an election outcomes was mostly written before the outcome of the election was actually known. By w
In October 2019, I went to Hong Kong for the first time. I had two reasons for going: First, because I had never seen the city, and it was one of Earth’s great legendary metropolises. Second, because
Matthew Yglesias, in his new book One Billion Americans , admits: The One Billion Americans agenda — tripling the American population — is a radical suggestion that lies well outside the boundaries of
Hi! This is a 3,400-word essay about a technology that was totally new to me as of a few weeks ago. You can click the headline to read it in your browser. It’s a total experiment, so please let me kno
Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town. “They gave you two choices,” he said. “‘If you open the gates, we’l
Netflix’s popular miniseries The Queen’s Gambit , which follows a young chess prodigy as she ascends the ranks of U.S. and world championship tournaments, has earned widespread praise from chess enthu
Today let’s talk about a major launch at Twitter, and how it fits into the company’s bigger strategy — both for the business and for its product mission. I. In March 2017, I drove down to the Instagra
Design at Apple I was the lead designer for three different web applications at Apple. The following is an overview of the design process that worked well for me and the team I was a part of. There's
This post is a complement to episode 372 of Design Details , Saving People from Themselves . Last week Divya Tak asked on Twitter "but what are things that you do to 'save the users from themselves...
Thousands gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House to celebrate Joe Biden’s projected win in the presidential election on November 7. Samuel Corum/Getty Images Imagine that, four year
Illustration: Adam Maida On October 23, eleven days before the presidential election, Manohla Dargis, one of the movie critics at the New York Times, popped in to the #newsroom-feedback channel on the
"Wood drill 1st" by echoDave_1990 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Today is my last day as a senior correspondent at Vox.com (still hosting The Weeds though!). I love Vox, but there was an inherent tension
This is probably one of the best posts I've ever written, so it's limited to members-only access. In 2019, after over a decade of writing a blog, I decided to set up Rediverge as place where I can wri
Her Republican colleagues had, up until then, been civil. But one day in late July, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol while Representative Ted Yoho lost his shit. The Flo
Matthew Smith Just now · 2 min read (Originally written as an email to our subscribers on Really Good Emails ) Hello humans, It’s Monday night (as I’m writing this). My dog is playing with my girlfrie
The congresswoman said Joe Biden’s relationship with progressives would hinge on his actions. And she dismissed criticism from House moderates, calling some candidates who lost their races “sitting du
Hello Ridgeliners . I’m Craig Mod, and last week we started shipping Kissa by Kissa ! A few copies have arrived in Asia (Singapore, Vietnam). The rest should be arriving in your part of the world this
Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends, so they used TeamSpeak or Skype to talk to their friends in-game. They mo
In retrospect, Jon Stewart probably quit the business at just the right time. The current era has banjaxed the late-night comedy set, serving up explosions of absurdity that soar beyond the reach of t