Cydney Hayes

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.
Job hunting is now a full-time job
With AI breaking both sides of the hiring process, LinkedIn is less a platform to find work than a place to vent about how bad the search has become
August 18, 2025
In between gods, looking for work
I went to an 'AI salon' at The Commons SF, expecting to find radical techies working to accumulate power. Instead, I found loneliness — and a lot of existential dread.
November 13, 2024

