by William Hertling · 9 Apr 2014 · 247pp · 71,698 words
a game controller on the couch and what appeared to be a Costco sized bag of Doritos. All the signs of a newly laid off tech worker, Sean thought to himself. “Hello, how can I...” The young man trailed off, and blinked a couple of times. He looked back into the house
by Gretchen McCulloch · 22 Jul 2019 · 413pp · 106,479 words
same region at the same time, they can alter the local dialect. The vowels of Raleigh, North Carolina, became less Southern after a wave of tech workers from Northern states started arriving in the 1960s, and Cockney has been replaced in working-class central London by Multicultural London English, which draws on
by Carl Zimmer · 9 Mar 2021 · 392pp · 109,945 words
the earthquake had healed over since my last visit. But other fissures had opened up since then, ones that would be harder to fix. Wealthy tech workers priced out of Silicon Valley had streamed over the mountains, offering a million dollars for a petite bungalow. Near the town bus station I watched
by Michal Zalewski · 11 Jan 2022 · 337pp · 96,666 words
pain. When it comes to the ability to withstand downturns, high income is not as much of a benefit as many expect. Countless Silicon Valley tech workers collect cozy salaries of $150,000 or more but still live paycheck to paycheck. When the job market dried up overnight in 2007, the number
by Kelly Starrett · 20 Oct 2014
Global Smash (see here) T-Spine Double-Ball Strip (see here) Anterior Shoulder (see here) BRIEFING Every weekday morning in San Francisco, herds of high-tech workers line up at street corners, waiting for the charter bus to swing by and load them up for their daily trip to Silicon Valley. They
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over his laptop with a 7-ounce baseball cap on his head. For the sake of connection, let’s say he’s one of the tech workers waiting for the Google bus on the corner of 18th and Dolores in San Francisco’s Mission District. He starts his day with his head
by Tom Chivers · 12 Jun 2019 · 289pp · 92,714 words
comparatively rare in some STEM careers, especially engineering and computer science; a study looking at 1998 data found that only 26 per cent of American tech workers were female.5 (Some reports suggest that the figure has actually gone down since then, to perhaps 20–23 per cent.6) Where the Rationalists
by Fred Kaplan · 1 Mar 2016 · 383pp · 105,021 words
more than a dozen universities—the University of Cincinnati, Harvard, Bryn Mawr, Duke, Pittsburgh, Auburn, among others—and the bureau sent agents to interview students, tech workers, and faculty on each campus. A few intriguing suspects were tagged here and there—an IT aide who answered questions nervously, a student with a
by Douglas Edwards · 11 Jul 2011 · 496pp · 154,363 words
side." "She used to be my assistant at Sun, but she left me for some hot new startup over in Cupertino." A surprising number of tech workers have friends and lovers with whom they share intimacy but not the details of their office lives. Google was no more immune to the lure
by Keach Hagey · 19 May 2025 · 439pp · 125,379 words
million, and one of the graduating companies from the last batch had been valued at $50 million.5 As startups filled offices in San Francisco, tech workers flooded formerly edgy neighborhoods like the Mission, pushing up the city’s median home price above $1 million. For the first time, there were more
by Fred Vogelstein · 12 Nov 2013 · 275pp · 84,418 words
buses, which all have Wi-Fi, make those commutes not only tolerable but some of the most productive hours of the day. So many high-tech workers now live in San Francisco that some of the newest technology companies have followed them. A decade ago companies such as Zynga and Twitter would
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