The Humans of the Bay Area
Anthropology of Startups
August 22, 2016
When you go to work in San Francisco, you emerge from BART and start walking. Fellow data miners are marching to work, bedecked in their company schwag. You see the Affirm backpack, a Zendesk t-shirt, a LinkedIn logo here, a Cloudera one there. People march, clutching their coffee cups. In the evening, they march back -- to Caltrain, to BART. . . .
PNW Scala 2014
cold outside, warm inside
November 21, 2014
This is the second year PNW Scala was held, and I went there again. Again, I got an AirBnB -- my last year's was taken, so I found a new one, at the foot of the Broadway Bridge across the Left Bank Annex. It even had a jacuzzi on the roof. This year was unusually cold for Portland, below freezing, and patches of snow remained on the . . .