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Laptop nonfiction

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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Songs Ojai

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Making babies

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The Popular Alternative

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An AI retail experiment gone wild.

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Wet Claude be shoppin’

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As above so Barlow. 

on the books telling us what "we must" do about aesthetics and democracy. 

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Panic! At the post-reality 

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Stack overflow.

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Margaret Hamilton

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Talking to strangers. 

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OmeTV

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When hackers become hype stars. 

on the founder industrial complex. This piece was published in collaboration with Boys Club.

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We're all founders now 

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The politics of prediction markets.

on how gambling on everything has shaped reporting. This piece was originally published in November 2025. 

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The Signal is the Noise

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Changed for good. 

on a generation of listeners shaped by music hardware. 

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25 years of iPod brain

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“Undone by a string of clues” 

on the struggle to articulate the present. 

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The feeling of the old world fading away

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