Alison Herman, The Ringer

From The Dropout to WeCrashed, our televisions are about to be flush with tales about infamous startup founders. Does the prevalence of those tales sign a change for the real-life Silicon Valley? “When companies stop competing for funding and funds start competing to finance them, it’s easy for things to get out of hand,” Herman writes.

Nathan Munn, The Verge

A former content material moderator gives an inside have a look at Manwin Canada, or what would change into often known as MindGeek, the operator of Pornhub and plenty of different pornographic web sites. 

Allecia Vermillion, Seattle Met

If you incessantly reference Serious Eats in your at-home culinary exploits, likelihood is you have run throughout a science-heavy evaluation from J. Kenji López-Alt. In his upcoming guide, he is making use of this strategy to the wok, however this profile goes a lot deeper than one set of recipes and methods.