Posts tagged with Culture
FIREing Our Way to Financial Literacy
It seems like FIRE survived after all. The acronym stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. It's a movement I've been following since the late 2010s, with the emphasis on financial calculations and statistical analysis tickling my…
Pining for a Simpler Internet
It could have been mere coincidence. As I was settling into an evening of going through saved articles on Matter[1], I noticed that much of modern online discourse frames our present state of technology as the nadir of social…
Founder Appeasement
So, I'm a tad late to this article about Airbnb and their big launch a few months ago. The gist is that Airbnb, as its core vacation and remote work rental business saturates the market, has been looking…
Strategic Leniency
I recently came across an article discussing Riot Games' anti-cheating division. All their games revolve around competitive multiplayer gameplay—the biggest and most famous being League of Legends—so it's been a core area of focus…
The Bamboo Ceiling in Tech
Bamboo ceiling refers to this phenomenon where Asians—here, defined to be a combination of South Asian (majority Indian), East Asian (majority Chinese, Korean, and Japanese), and Southeast Asian (a more diverse set of countries)—are underrepresented in the higher…
