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Seattle After Amazon
If you have an article to recommend for this index, please contact me or tweet @reifman. In the past couple of years, there’s been a steady stream of outstanding journalism and research documenting the dramatic changes taking place in Seattle, largely driven by Amazon’s explosive...
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Amazon’s Impact on Seattle’s Ballard Neighborhood
Update: See what happened to those two cute houses sold as lots and what they look like now! You may have read about Amazon’s overwhelming impacts on Seattle but let’s take a walk through formerly sleepy Ballard to get a sense...
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Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze After Forty
Why 20 thousand additional men in a city might make finding meaningful romance more difficult — for everyone.
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Funded By Seattle Real Estate Developers, Forbes Writer Attacks Amazon Critic
Upton Sinclair said, “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it*.” This is evident in Roger Valdez’s column in Forbes today (How Jobs and Awkward White Men Are Destroying a...
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Amazon’s Seattle Headcount to Nearly Triple in Five Years
Shortly after ‘Amageddon’: How Amazon’s culture is taking a toll on Seattle’s future went viral over at GeekWire, Amazon dropped a bombshell. It’s building enough office space to nearly triple its Seattle headcount by 2019. If you like the current dose...
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Amageddon: Amazon’s Driving Seattle to an Increasingly Obvious Future
GeekWire published my latest “‘Amageddon’: How Amazon’s culture is taking a toll on Seattle’s future“. It’s received nearly 10,000 Facebook actions and definitely tapped into unspoken upset in Seattle residents about the company’s growth. Here’s an excerpt: When I arrived...
Amazon’s Impact on Seattle Dating Resonated Widely
I had no idea that GeekWire’s coverage of You’ve Got Male: Amazon’s Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene would result in such widespread coverage as well as a viral spinoff. The gender ratio in Seattle and the failure of our local tech companies to hire women...