How does Silicon Valley relax on the weekend?

It is a simple question—and, upon a little introspection, a perplexing one. How does the most casual culture on the planet unwind? How do you dress down when you never dress up? 

What distinguishes life outside the office when your office is your living room, you take meetings from your Peloton and you try to teach your kids how to use Roblox while you’re on a Zoom?

For many of us, it often feels like the weekend doesn’t even exist. 

Yet the weekend still serves a purpose. It is a time to think about how we spend our time. To exhale out the stress of our weekday jobs. To concentrate on things that are not mission critical. To stretch our muscles. To stoke our creativity. To absorb culture.

The truth is, we’re all living the tech lifestyle whether we realize it or not. And that lifestyle is changing fast. 

At The Information, we know tech. For almost eight years, we have driven the agenda in business coverage of the technology industry. We’ve been the first to tell our subscribers about major new trends—from the rise of ride sharing to the arrival of the metaverse. And we’ve been the first to hold leaders accountable when they have failed to recognize the growing power and responsibility they hold over our businesses—and our lives. 

And so, as tech’s impact becomes more pervasive by the day, we are expanding our lens, in our biggest editorial expansion since we launched.

With exclusive profiles and interviews, The Information Weekend will bring you inside the lives and minds of the new arbiters of culture and technology. We’ll shine a light on trends that are changing the way we live. We’ll recommend new products and services. We’ll be insanely practical. (We listen to our audiobooks at 2X, after all.) If there’s a book, movie, solar-heated coffee mug, or connected rowing machine you must know about, we’ll tell you first. 

We’ve assembled an all-star team hailing from Vanity Fair, New York magazine, Town & Country, Wired and beyond to serve up this new section, which we are offering at no additional cost to subscribers. These award-winning journalists will be your navigators, with stylish and authoritative writing that will keep you reading from your first oat-milk latte of the day to that happy-hour cabernet from your boss’s Napa winery. It’s the quality of journalism you have come to expect from The Information, with a little more flair. 

We also hope our new section—delivered via email, online and in The Information app every Friday—helps you find a little flow in your week. The pandemic has left us drained and exhausted from navigating work, life and the too-porous boundary between them. 

We all need a place to log off. 

Ladies and gentlemen, The Weekend.

Jessica Lessin, founder, The Information
Jon Steinberg, editor, The Information Weekend

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