A moral dilemma – the bro-tastic guy who was fired from my current company (for the most part both for being a bro, and for being totally clueless about why this is bad) – is applying for a job in the new company I am about to join.

He called to ask me for tips about it (to improve his chances) and now my future boss is emailing asking me what it was like to work with him.

I felt terrible about it, but wrote back sayingthat I did not enjoy working with the guy. And now I will have to live forever in fear of karmic retribution.

There is so much outdoors stuff to do here, and the air is so ridiculously clear – but I have to work every day.

Also, Utah does feel a little like a foreign country, with temples everywhere. And everyone is so white!

Also, this morning in the hotel elevator, I actually heard someone un-ironically using the word “Frisco” when referring to San Francisco. Do people actually do that? Maybe he also says, “Califor-nye-ey”.

I feel like every time I fly, airports and planes keep adding more and more screens – they can’t figure out the new place to stick them into, turning the place into a source of sensory cacophony from every direction. Is this really what people want? 

Don’t they actually want a calm, quiet place, instead – maybe with barely perceptable Brian Eno piped in? Am I an exception somehow, and it’s the market responding to what people want?

Lounges in theory exist to shield you from screens and sensory overload – but they are only for rich people or frequent travelers, but what makes people designing these spaces think that regular folks wouldn’t want fewer screens, too?