Elf on a Roomba

Is Burnout a Millennial-Only Trait? These are the robots of our discontent…

The article How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation has certainly made the rounds lately and boy oh boy did Anne Helen Petersen strike a chord. "When it came to the mundane, the medium priority, the stuff that wouldn’t make my job easier or my work better, I avoided it. I realized that the vast majority …

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JJ Abrams @ WonderCon

Nu Trek turned our Trek Heroes into Teens with Problems

I've resisted writing about Star Trek (2009). Here's why - to paraphrase Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory: "It's a [Star Trek movie]. Like pizza or particle accelerators even the stinky ones, still pretty good." Trek is Trek, I say to my semi-Trekkie friends. They roll their eyes. It's a hard thing, rebooting a franchise. …

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