Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

> At Office 3.0, they connected the lighting and calendar systems, so that the lights would blink as the meeting approached its allotted time limit, then turn off completely—no matter who you were or how important your meeting was.

This is brilliant.

Some photos:

- https://www.officelovin.com/2015/03/another-look-inside-gith...

- https://homeworlddesign.com/github-office-space-san-francisc...

Not a single photo of the office, in an article talking about its merits?

The mania had to end since this whole tech culture was built on very cheap money running wild and pumped with VC money with the whole economy on a decade long QE cycle with an extreme amount of over-valued companies still unable to make money.

As soon as the interest rates went up lots of companies started cutting. GitHub included and almost all the benefits went away.

> Tech had entered a new era of discontent and mistrust, culminating in a backlash in 2016, after the presidential election, when Big Tech companies finally broke, embarking on a multiyear apology tour.

Huh? When did Big Tech apologise for anything, let alone change their ways?

I must have missed that...