Consumer psychology is weird
Links: Office gossip in the remote work age, codec wars & Neanderthal art!: Context Collapse #97
Hello you wonderful people.
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New Futures:
I finally read Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year in the New Yorker and the novel-length retelling of America’s 2020 COVID experience is kind of amazing.
Inside the ‘email job’ caste.
How office gossip has adapted to the age of remote work.
Michael Manville on how parking destroys cities.
Diving into the Pentagon’s quiet control of a huge portion of the internet.
Donald McNeil Jr on the ebbing of the COVID pandemic in America:
This virus is slowly becoming endemic: something we live with.
We will probably have bad seasons and good seasons, as we do with flu. We may have annual shots with a blend of the South African, Brazilian, Indian or whatever variants are circling the globe that year. Luckily, because coronaviruses mutate more slowly than influenza viruses, they will probably be better matches than flu shots are.
But the epidemic-endemic border is fuzzy. My epidemic may end before yours does.
Advertising/Marketing/PR:
The psycholo…
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