Journalism

The San Francisco Standard, June 22, 2026

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Tech money is flowing into San Francisco, raising home prices, inflating restaurant bills and expense accounts, and juicing up the city. Across the Bay in the grand old city of Oakland, though, times are still tight.

National Geographic, February 2026

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The biggest brewing company in the world would like to make a wildly popular nonalcoholic beer. Nonalcoholic beers are generally not great! So AB InBev brought in a yeast whisperer.

Scientific American, August 22, 2025

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Going to space is hard. But SpaceX's ambitious, hydrogen-fueled, gigantic Starship rockets seem to have a particularly tough time doing their job.

Business Insider, February 17, 2025

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Our digital ecosystem isn't designed for people as they age—from tiny text getting harder to see to vexingly complicated web sites and chat bots replacing human helpers.

Business Insider, March 7, 2024

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I read every study and research article on the effects of building lanes for bicycles on adjacent retail. They're good! They help!

Business Insider, November 29, 2022

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Streetlights all over America are turning from moonlight-white to Princely purple. It's not a secret conspiracy, but it's not a coincidence, either. Turns out the purple nights are an object lesson in what happens when sublime light emitting diode technology becomes a commodity, and supply chains go global.

Scientific American, July/August 2026

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On how the chaos of Trump Administration changes to the funding and organization of US scientific research are inducing a generational change in the entire enterprise.

Mother Jones, January/February 2026

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California State Senator Scott Wiener is by some metrics the most effective elected official in America.

Business Insider, June 17, 2025

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A George Polk Award-winning package of stories by a team of reporters on the true environmental and economic costs of the data centers that power artificial intelligence.

Alta, spring 2025

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Californians have an accent. More than one, actually. And a dedicated team of linguists are proving that it's, like, not the one you think, bro?

Business Insider, March 3, 2024

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He was a California wine country scion with a successful beef jerky business under his belt. His next hit was supposed to be gourmet marshmallows. But ambition and a recalcitrant machine for hyperscaling marshmallow manufacture meant the sweet life was not to be.

Wired, December 2021

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The world of virtual realities indistinguishable from real realities is further away than you'd guess. Turns out it's really hard to send sensory experiences directly into a brain by wire.