9 Best Articles in 2022
Fast Company
The newest hot coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour, because it is a parking spot
Fast Company
3 min read · From 2019 · WePark shows that in cities like San Francisco, coworking is unaffordable to many, and the sheer volume of free space allocated to parked cars could be put to much better use.
Reader View · Shared by 93, including Dominik Grolimund, Greater Greater Washington, Glenn Oberholzer, Strong Towns, Thomas Power, Daniel Jörg, Great Place To Move, Devon ☀️, Daniel Hüfner
TechCrunch
After the end of the startup era
TechCrunch
7 min read · From 2017 · There’s a weird feeling afoot these days, in the Valley, and in San Francisco. Across the rest of the world — Denver, Santiago, Toronto, Berlin, “Silicon Glen,” “Silicon Alley,” “Silicon Roundabout“,…
Reader View · Shared by 549, including Dominik Grolimund, Fabricio Teixeira, Ilia Markov, k, Björn Ognibeni, krisdahn.eth, FactorDaily, Thomas Power, Matthias Lampe, Weiting Chen, Martin Rajcan 🇺🇦🕊, Startupxplore, Chris Schultz ✌️, Michelle Tandler ⚖️, Parin Vachhani, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Massimiliano Aroffo, Philip Stehlik, Sara Usinger, Richard Gutjahr
frieze
What to See During San Francisco Art Week
frieze
6 min read · Jan 20th · From Tauba Auerbach’s very first museum survey to Livien Yin’s intimate paintings inspired by Chinese female immigrants in the US, these are the must-see shows in the Bay Area
Reader View · Shared by 104
BuzzFeed
Uber Is Laying The Groundwork For Perpetual Rides In San Francisco
BuzzFeed
3 min read · From 2015 · A new Uber feature called Smart Routes encourages San Francisco riders to request UberPool rides along particular routes for maximum efficiency.
Reader View · Shared by 32, including Mihai M, Mark Needham, minh.eth, George M 🇪🇺, Kenneth Kalmer
MIT Technology Review
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
MIT Technology Review
1 min read · 2020-07-20 · “Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week. That pretty much sums up the response on social media in the last few…
Shared by 372, including Matthias Lampe, Martin Ford, Howard Getson, Bob E. Hayes, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Jessel Sookha, Gian Klain, Neil Hart 💙, Jansnet, Gabriele, Samuel Hu, Kirk Borne, Randy Deutsch, Luciano Floridi, Jennifer Stirrup - Next: #WWDVC #AI #Data #keynote, Bill Johnston, l. ones, Rick King
Guardian Cities
'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
Guardian Cities
~11 min read · From 2019 · Amid a homelessness crisis, sky-high rent and a surplus of rich people, insiders bemoan the effects of their own industry
Reader View · Shared by 86, including Mathew Ingram, Grzegorz Wapiński, Dez S. Papp, Chris Messina
The Atlantic
The City That Apps Built, or Destroyed
The Atlantic
10 min read · From 2019 · An unprecedented analysis of who is buying San Francisco property
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Alexandra Wong, Sachin Rekhi, Strong Towns, Dominik Grolimund
The New Yorker
How San Francisco Renamed Its Schools
The New Yorker
7 min read · 2021-02-06 · The president of the San Francisco Board of Education discusses the controversies around reopening and renaming her district’s schools, including questions about how to view the legacies of complex…
Reader View · Shared by 61, including Walter Hickey, Benedict Evans, Ajit Pai, Pete Skomoroch, David Frum, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Allison Arieff, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Larry Ferlazzo, Jonathan Haidt, Renee DiResta
mhudack.com
San Francisco: now with more dystopia
mhudack.com
2 min read · From 2017 · I visited San Francisco for the first time in a year last week. Someone turned up the dystopian dial 20% while I was away. I stayed in a hotel downtown. At about ten on the night I arrived I decided…
Reader View · Shared by 58, including Katja Evertz, Nils Hitze, Joan Lockwood, Matthias Sala, Ryan Hoover
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San Francisco Chronicle
Listen: Inside San Francisco SROs, a housing crisis hidden from view
San Francisco Chronicle
Apr 26th · Fifth & Mission podcast: San Francisco has long depended on single room occupancy...
San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. has spent millions to shelter the homeless in run-down hotels. These are the disastrous results
San Francisco Chronicle
20+ min read · Apr 26th · Thousands of people have been left to languish and at times die in hotel rooms overseen by a San Francisco agency that reports to Mayor London Breed. With little oversight or support, these so-called…
Reader View · Shared by 183, including Kristy Tillman
The Wall Street Journal
The Weirdest Coaching Staff in Baseball Has Made the Giants a Powerhouse
The Wall Street Journal
1 min read · May 2nd · The San Francisco Giants have a coaching staff unlike any other, and their success is forcing the sport to rethink who is qualified to be in a major-league dugout.
The New Yorker
What Happens When Twelve Thousand Game Developers Converge?
The New Yorker
10 min read · Apr 8th · A week of boba, crypto, and introspection at the Game Developers Conference, in San Francisco.
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Gizmodo
The House That Spied on Me
Gizmodo
~19 min read · From 2018 · In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a “smart home.” I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet: an Amazon Echo, my lights, my…
Reader View · Shared by 227, including Chris {he, they}, Jane, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Leif & Direkt, jean marc manach, tjalve, Rodrigo Prior, Hampus Jakobsson, Data Science Renee, Philippe Surber, Howard Getson, Massimo Banzi, luis antónio santos, Barnaby Skinner, Ralph Hutter, ➤ Cyril Druesne, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Stephan Woodtli, anildash, Matthew Turland
San Francisco Chronicle
Listen: Inside San Francisco SROs, a housing crisis hidden from view
San Francisco Chronicle
Apr 26th · Fifth & Mission podcast: San Francisco has long depended on single room occupancy...
Mike Davidson
Three Years in San Francisco » Mike Industries
Mike Davidson
From 2016 · I had only been to San Francisco on random business trips and a couple of times with my family when I was very young. It seemed like a place I might live if I had never found Seattle.
It was go-time …
Reader View · Shared by 21, including Thompson Marzagão, Chris Messina, Nir Eyal
The New York Times
What San Francisco Says About America
The New York Times
6 min read · From 2017 · After 27 years reporting abroad, I rediscovered a land of sustainable pot, sleek Teslas and easy credit.
Reader View · Shared by 63, including Matthew Guay, Thomas Power, luqven, Leslie D, , Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, Erin Ashley
medium.com
Design’s Lost Generation
medium.com
~16 min read · From 2018 · A year ago I was in the audience at a gathering of designers in San Francisco. There were four designers on stage, and two of them worked…
Reader View · Shared by 254, including Vinish Garg, Jeeva Vijay Prasath, Daniel Buchmueller, Mark Kaigwa, Gabriele, Patrick Sanwikarja, Christian P. Stobbe, Dominik Grolimund, Bernhard Huessy, Fabricio Teixeira, Kiki, sarkasper, Kat, Gui Schmitt, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, Jeremy Neumann, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Brad Frost, Glenn Oberholzer, Chris Messina
Quartz
The company behind WordPress is closing its gorgeous San Francisco office because its employees never show up
Quartz
2 min read · From 2017 · The blogging platform's parent, a remote-working advocate, wound up listing the property.
Reader View · Shared by 350, including Johannes Lenz, Merkstatt, Ilia Markov, Christian Müller, Tris Hussey, Ryan Hoover, k, Mark Pitman, Tim Herbig, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Pagely®, Pat Kua, Zain Fathoni, Elia Palme, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Esther Schindler, Andreas Von Gunten, Thomas Power, PotHix
youtube.com
San Francisco Shut Down: COVID-19 Quarantine
youtube.com
From 2020 · San Francisco shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Driving through San Francisco during the pandemic is jaw dropping. Thankfully few people are out...
Shared by 36, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Bryan William Jones, Adam Singer, Marcel Janus, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth, kevin simler
Fox News
Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it 'slap in the face'
Fox News
3 min read · 2020-09-01 · EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fox…
Reader View · Shared by 58, including @wef @davos #wef22 R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A Metaverse, Pam Moore, Benny Johnson, Douglas Karr, Chris Surdak, Ian M Calvert
San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. has spent millions to shelter the homeless in run-down hotels. These are the disastrous results
San Francisco Chronicle
20+ min read · Apr 26th · Thousands of people have been left to languish and at times die in hotel rooms overseen by a San Francisco agency that reports to Mayor London Breed. With little oversight or support, these so-called…
Reader View · Shared by 183, including Kristy Tillman
