Culture

Technology's effect on work, cities, games and everyday life.

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Bonus

Mailbag: burnout, side projects and saying no

Our monthly members-only mailbag. This time: how to tell if you're burning out, whether side projects are worth it, and how to say no to your manager without ruining your career.

EP 4

Why your city's open data matters

Bus timetables, tree surveys, pothole reports. Civic technologist Marcus Bell explains how public data quietly powers the apps we use every day — and why so much of it is still locked in PDFs.

EP 3

How one game studio ships without crunch

Long hours before a launch have been treated as normal in games for decades. Studio director Elif Kaya explains how her twenty-person team has shipped three games without asking anyone to work weekends.

EP 1

Welcome to Signal

Our first episode. Who we are, why we started a show about technology and the people who build it, and what you can expect every Tuesday.