Collected Writing & Commentary

Silicon Valley’s Technocratic Fantasy is Dying in the Protests - Barron’s 

The End of ‘Going Viral’ - Barron’s

Silicon Valley’s Quest to Save the World - The New Republic 

An Apology from the Internet By the People Who Built It - NY Magazine

The New Midcentury Modern - Curbed

Future Curves: Buckminster Fuller - SSENSE

A History of Headphone Design - SSENSE

Back to Nature: How our Latest Midcentury Modern Design Obsession Reflects an Age of Environmental Anxiety - Curbed

How the Olympics are Transforming Rio's Iconic Beach Stands - Eater

Rio v. São Paulo Architectural Rivalry - Curbed

What Comes After Midcentury Modern - Curbed

Facebook's Real News Curators are Engineers - Fusion

Strip Clubs & the New American City - Curbed

The Art of Failing Upward - New York Times Sunday Review

Trending Hot Topic, speculative fiction for Motherboard Terraform

The Future of Tech and Fashion - Vogue

The Return of the Selfie - The New Yorker

What Reclaimed Wood Meant - this site

Tech Aesthetics:What Tech Offices Tell Us About the Future of Work - Aeon Magazine

Weird Corporate Twitter - The New Inquiry

The Speculum of the Other Brogrammer - this site

Cults at Scale - DIS Magazine

Sex and the Startup: Men, Women and Work for Model View Culture

Facebook for Space? Airbnb's Weird Corporate Nationhood - this site

The Male Gazed: Surveillance, Power, and Gender for Model View Culture

Facebook IRL: A Short History of Facebook's Design Aesthetic

Why Founders Don't Sell, for Medium

Feminism's Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning In?, for Dissent Magazine

The Myth of Magical Futures - this site

What's in a Free Fjallraven Backpack - this site

The Unbearable Whiteness of Breaking Things, for Medium

Companies Must Set the Example, in the New York Times

The Boy Kings, memoir from Simon & Schuster

Brolores Park, SF culture blog