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This week the boys are joined by their personal friend and the pod’s first ever guest, Rafa, a Palo Alto native and Chicago transplant. They begin by examining the aesthetics of individual FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) before examining the tech industry and silicon valley as a whole. Amongst other things they discuss skeuomorphism, Corporate Memphis, the Clear Craze, the Thompson Center, BART’s Silicon Valley Extension, blobitecture, and the philanthropic pursuits of billionaires.
Links: Corporate Memphis Silicon Valley has a Sustainability Crisis by Alice Bucknell Bubble Vision by Hito Steyerl Why Does Everything On Netflix Look Like That?
Arwork: By Dicklyon - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=140969915
Recorded on 1/14/2024
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