Before I left for a trip to San Francisco earlier this month, I challenged myself (read: was forced by a boss) to find a startup I like. The assumption being that, surely, if I work at Valleywag, I must hate technology. There are a lot of bad actors in the business, sure, but Zack Shapiro of Luna isn't one.

The makeover success streak at Betaworks is bordering on witchcraft: after pulling Digg out of oblivion, coming to the aid of mourning Google Reader users, and wasting millions of productivity hours with Dots, Instapaper joins the 21st century with a new design. It's good!

This summer, you won’t have to go far to find a Candy Crush player. There they are: begging lives off strangers on the subway platform, bonding with fellow acolytes at the DMV, taking time off work to focus on what matters—literally wearing their lack of productivity like a badge. "Sometimes I just go into the bathroom and sit on the seat and play," a colleague confessed, describing some quality in-office downtime. "I don't tell many people that . . ."