This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss cheating in job interviews, “scary good” surveillance tech, and prudes in payment processing.
EMANUEL: First I want to say that the response to our piece about “economic headwinds” has been really positive and energizing. Like we said in that post, we are doing just fine either way, but it’s nice to see that people continue to respond very well to us being transparent about how we’re thinking about and running 404 Media, so we’ll continue to do that. That post also originated as a Behind the Blog, which we always wanted to be a weekly behind-the-scenes look at the site for anyone who was interested, but it’s also become a place for us to test out some ideas with our most loyal readers before we make them public and that is also working out nicely, so thank you!
The other thing I wanted to talk about was this great story from Matthew Gault about Cluely, the AI app that helps you “cheat on everything.”
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