Within a few years, the founder, a chelonian ex–hedge funder, would become the wealthiest person in the world and undergo a montage-worthy makeover

The internet has moved seamlessly into the interstices of this situation, redistributing our minimum of free time into unsatisfying micro-installments

The draw of children’s literature may lie in the language as much as anything. These books have a total limpidity—a close, clean material attention that makes you feel like you’re reading a catalog description of a world to be entered at will

Nightmare, I thought. I eyed the back door. The prospect of engaging in therapeutic maieutics with a group of strangers was stressful

marching around like they knew something; casting aspersions on my all-encompassing tech-centric identity

San Francisco was the final stage of a prelapsarian era, the end of our generational Gold Rush, an unsustainable age of excess.

the multimillion-dollar sums that went to people I suspected had done indelible harm to coworkers