Linkblog

Posted on November 9, 2019 by jjn1

• Three Chinese lessons Riveting account of what it’s like to work in a Chinese tech company.
• Can Big Tech Be Tamed? Wonderful, long, essay by Gary Kamiya on what the tech industry has done to San Francisco. Best thing about it: he doesn’t go for simplistic answers.
• Unearthed photos reveal what happened to those who dared to flee through the Berlin Wall On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the short film The Escape Agents is based a cache of photographs from security service records of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Good way of marking the anniversary (which is today, by the way).
• The frat-boy lunacy behind the WeWork shambles