Wow.
Normally, an announcement of this magnitude would be managed at our highest level. The writers here at Golden State of Mind are generally pretty cool about working with the corporate machine (for example, by carefully navigating the recent China PR issues)... but this one feels a little different.
Without warning to any of us, this showed up on Twitter:
In the accompanying article, Vox spells out what is behind all of this. As we’ve known for some time, the organizational structure of this machine that we write for is... problematic. But more on that later.