1979

The no emails thing is just bananas for any corporate office. Slack has its place, for sure, but it’s not a 100% solution.

1980

It’s emails and phone calls that were banned.

That just sounds nuts to me, and I would say a huge chunk of my exchange with co-workers is using instant messaging, but we also do meetings and phone calls and a lot of stuff that isn’t seen by everyone. I would love it if more people did text type exchanges so we have a record… for going back to see what we discussed not for like bludgeoning people. But the Away system seems nuts, and… it’s going to bite them repeatedly now.

1981

The whole place sounds crazy. The LA store had money stored in a safe and no bank account. What kind of business doesn’t need a revenue stream to operate? Stuffing money into a safe doesn’t let you use it.

And no email? Why? What were they afraid of? An electronic paper trail? Did they think they could just erase everything on Slack?

1982

Who could’ve foreseen this other than the hundreds and hundreds of sex workers that foresaw this?


1983

I liked the part where they talked about some video of money just raining out of that box.

It seems like this was the control freak nature of the execs, as in they sold it as transparency but what she really wanted was to see everything so she could punish accordingly.

1985

Not sure where best to put this, but seems interesting:

IN MOST CASES, ascertaining a home location and an office location was enough to identify a person. Consider your daily commute: Would any other smartphone travel directly between your house and your office every day?

Describing location data as anonymous is “a completely false claim” that has been debunked in multiple studies, Paul Ohm, a law professor and privacy researcher at the Georgetown University Law Center, told us. “Really precise, longitudinal geolocation information is absolutely impossible to anonymize.”

Yet companies continue to claim that the data are anonymous. In marketing materials and at trade conferences, anonymity is a major selling point — key to allaying concerns over such invasive monitoring.

To evaluate the companies’ claims, we turned most of our attention to identifying people in positions of power. With the help of publicly available information, like home addresses, we easily identified and then tracked scores of notables. We followed military officials with security clearances as they drove home at night. We tracked law enforcement officers as they took their kids to school. We watched high-powered lawyers (and their guests) as they traveled from private jets to vacation properties. We did not name any of the people we identified without their permission.

1986

If you’re French and trying to evade taxes, don’t flash your illegal bling on Facebook!

1987
1988

What a snowflake.

1989

social + mobile


1990

That’s a weird chart; average Americans spend more than 4 hours a day reading the newspaper?!? Edit - oops, that’s TV. Could they use something other than gray-scale, ffs?

1991

Remember the halcyon days of old when those “damn kids who spend too much time on those video games” was going to lead to the downfall of civilization as we know it? Good times…good times.

1992

Every time I see a chart like that the TV figure blows my mind. Even after the decline, even with all the other entertainment options open to people now, that’s well over 4 hours of TV every single day.

1993

Holy cow we still watch a lot of TV. I bet there is an overlap between that and phone surfing.

1994

There is for me, at least; the vast majority of time I have the TV on, I’m also on my computer and phone.

1995

That’s a disturbing chart. First for the information it presents (though not surprising). Second for the way it presents the information (using 4 shades of gray… having it be a stacked chart… I defy you to tell how much time people spend on the social internet without having to count the tickmarks on the right side of the chart. Also, IMHO since time is “naturally” measured in 60 minute increments, it would have been better to make the Y axis ticks 30/60 minutes or 1 hour as opposed to 50 minutes).

My wife is looking at her phone maybe 75% of the time she’s in front of the TV. The other 25% of the time she has her eyes closed (but surprisingly, most of that time she is NOT snoozing).

1996

It’s a rare show that gets my full attention. This has been true since the internet.

I also know people, mostly older, that turn the TV on and they just leave it there… but they are not watching it for that actual 12 hours or so it’s on.

1997

90% of my mobile phone usage is taking pictures of my cats. <3

My TV time has increased though because one of my cats just hates it when I sit at the computer. I’m forced to ‘leg pillow’ with him on couch. Unfortunately not many of the games I play lend themselves to Steam Link, either, so I end up watching a lot of YouTube docs and (currently, Skyrim) let’s plays.

1998

I like to give a show my full attention. I like to hear every word of dialogue and get pretty annoyed if it’s noisy or other some other distraction is ongoing while the show is running. My wife and I do like to pause and talk about what we think is going on, what X’s hidden agenda is, etc. I don’t multi-task very well.

1999

I don’t really believe in multi-tasking. I assure you most people who say they multi-task very well will likely have dozens of people around them saying they absolutely do not. I am a bit known at work for refusing to do work while in most meetings. They either need my attention and participation in a meeting, or they don’t. No one expects me to get much work down if they put me in a four hour meeting because yep, I’m going to sit there and do the meeting.

This is different though. I’m talking about being entertained, and the fact is many shows simply can’t draw my attention fully, and that’s fine. I am watching something like Modern Family while checking out the internet or playing a slow game… so be it. There are some shows and movies that get it all, and when I am restaurants it’s rare for me to touch my phone unless I am engaging with someone and we want to look something up.

At any given time I might be overlapping a few of those at once, is what I was agreeing with; this makes me wonder how they count it.

It is a treat though when I do run into a show that does get my undivided attention, as in no interruptions stuff. I usually have 2-3 of those during the height of the viewing season.