Essays, articles, & op-eds
"If your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
Tom Stoppard, 1988Recent bylines:
Big Tech, But Bigger, PS Quarterly, March 2024
Even Busts Can be Good for Tech, The Information, February 2023
Why Did We Put So Much Faith in the Crypto Whiz Kid?, The New York Times, November 2022
The World Tech Made, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2022
The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley, WIRED, January 2022
Where Computing Might Go Next, MIT Technology Review, November 2021
The New York Times (as contributing opinion writer, 2019-2021):
How Will Jeff Bezos Spend His Billions Now?, February 2021
Silicon Valley Isn't Over Just Because Tech Companies Are Moving Away, December 2020
The Social Media Machine Will Rage On, November 2020
A Brief History of the Taxpayer in Chief, October 2020
The Conventions Hit Closer to Home This Year, August 2020
The Last Days of the Tech Emperors?, July 2020
Don't Be Fooled by Seattle's Police-Free Zone, June 2020
Twitter Could End the Office as We Know It, May 2020
The Coronavirus Could Rewrite the Rules for Silicon Valley, April 2020
America is at War, and There's Only One Enemy, March 2020
Life in Seattle, America's Coronavirus Capital, March 2020
Don't Blame the Tech Bros for the Housing Crisis, November 2019
The Church of Techno-Optimism, September 2019
Letting the Internet Regulate Itself Was a Good Idea -- In the 1990s. July 2019
Who Will Survive the Trade War?. June 2019
Silicon Valley's Old Money, March 2019
Lyft's IPO is Making the Same Circle of Men Rich, Again, March 2019
The End of Privacy Began in the 60s, December 2018
A Warning from Seattle to Amazon's HQ2, November 2018
Silicon Valley Can't Escape the Business of War, October 2018
Additional public writing:
The Limits of Telecommuting, Public Books, November 2020Silicon Politics, The Communications of the ACM, December 2020
Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?, AHA Perspectives, November 2020
On Technology and Urban Transformation, The Metropole, July 2020
Silicon Valley Can Still Beat China, Bloomberg Businessweek, July 2019
How Antitrust Laws Can Save Silicon Valley, The Washington Post, July 2019
The Tech Talent is Rumbling in Silicon Valley, The Los Angeles Times, December 2018
Winning the Amazon Sweepstakes,The Washington Post, September 2017
The Other Tech Bubble, The American Prospect, Winter 2016The Long Game, in The First Year Project, The Miller Center at the University of Virginia, 2016
The Future of Work: The Technology Industry is Changing the Rules, Pacific Standard, October 2015
TR and Trump: Two Very Different People, But There's This One Significant Similarity, History News Network, September 2015
Don’t Try this at Home, Foreign Policy, September/October 2010
Not So Fast: Some Presidents Overcome Their Midterm Slump, The Seattle Times, April 2010
Welfare as We Knew It, Black Past, September 2009
Amazon Joins the Parade of Tech to the Urban Core, Crosscut, December 2008
We are Not the ‘Next Silicon Valley’, Crosscut, February 2008
Seattle’s Transportation Malaise is Nothing Special, Crosscut, January 2008
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