Silicon Valley needs to stop with the ‘grindslop’

Have you ever heard of ‘grindslop’? It’s the latest dig aimed at what some internet users see as tech’s performative, startup hustle culture. The unflattering term was coined by tech entrepreneur Will Manidis, who argued in a post on X that by glorifying work at all costs, Silicon Valley has turned overworking into a religion—and a product in and of itself: “No one asks what the company does,” he writes. “It doesn’t matter . . . What matters is...