# The Curious Case of Andy Byron: How One Man’s Digital Midlife Crisis Became a Global Mirror If you haven’t heard of Andy Byron yet, congratulations on maintaining your sanity in our hyperconnected asylum. For the rest of us doom-scrollers, Andy has become the latest specimen in humanity’s ongoing experiment of turning ordinary people into…
The Global Spectrum: How the World Decides Which Autistic Traits Are Genius and Which Get You Fired ZURICH—On the same Tuesday that a Swiss asset-management firm discreetly hired a 24-year-old Kazakh “pattern savant” to spot algorithmic glitches, a Cambodian garment factory quietly fired a 34-year-old seamstress for “excessive rocking.” Both women carry the same formal…
Global Team-Building: The World’s Favorite Ritual of Organized Chaos By our roving correspondent, still jet-lagged in three time zones If you watch the news long enough, you’ll notice the planet is basically one colossal group project nobody asked to join. From the UN Security Council’s monthly passive-aggressive potluck to your office’s “synergy circle,” teams are…
Good morning, planet Earth—please adjust your screens for regional bias and residual sleep. Somewhere between the 5 a.m. call sheet in Burbank and the 8 p.m. rerun streaming in Jakarta, “The Morning Show” has become the planet’s most over-qualified alarm clock. Apple TV+’s glossy dismantling of breakfast television is no longer just a prestige drama;…
Severance, Global Edition: The World’s Favorite New Exit Strategy By Dave’s Foreign Desk, still wearing yesterday’s cynicism The word “severance” once belonged to HR paperwork and polite euphemisms like “rightsizing.” Now, courtesy of an Apple TV+ show about surgically splitting workers’ memories, it has become a planetary Rorschach test—everyone sees the same inkblot, but each…
