Published inOneZero·May 22, 2020Member-onlyWhat Facebook’s Remote Work Policy Means for the Future of Tech Salaries Everywhere‘For some kinds of jobs, it really could become a more national and less local labor market’ — For many tech workers, the ability to do the job from anywhere — or more specifically, being able to do the job without paying Bay Area rents or spending thousands of hours every year driving on 101 or 280 — is the dream. That may become a reality for more…Facebook7 min readFacebook7 min read
Published inGEN·May 11, 2020Member-onlyWhat Americans Need to Understand About the Swedish Coronavirus ExperimentSweden made headlines for never shutting down. Here’s what’s really happening there. — To outsiders, life in Stockholm, Sweden, appears perfectly normal: Walk down a cobblestone street, and you may see two friends sitting at a cafe enjoying the spring air or a group of kids kicking a soccer ball in the park. Cars and bicyclists may zip by; a family may walk…Coronavirus7 min readCoronavirus7 min read
Published inMarker·Sep 18, 2019Member-onlyHow Brexit Became a Game of Chicken With the U.S.The future of trade between the United States and the U.K. is in flux because the British think U.S. chicken is gross — The fate of the United Kingdom’s future trading relationship with the United States may rest on whether the British government is so desperate for a trade deal with a major power that it will accept chicken with small amounts of chlorine on its national menu. For decades, a dispute over…Brexit9 min readBrexit9 min read
Published inOneZero·Feb 5, 2019Member-onlyRegulators Are Figuring Out How to Make Google and Facebook SweatFines go only so far, but something bigger is taking shape — The Wild West era may be drawing to a close for tech corporations like Facebook and Google. New scrutiny from regulators abroad — and some closer to home — is resulting in fines that portend more substantial changes on the horizon. …Privacy5 min readPrivacy5 min read
Published inOneZero·Jan 7, 2019Member-onlyGig Workers Are Falling Into the Payday Loan TrapNew tech, old problems — The ads are all over Snapchat and Hulu. They’re shot to look like the same slice-of-life vertical video you’re already watching, showing normal people who want to do normal things — take a girlfriend to a movie, change a baby’s diaper, buy “my bridezilla sister a last minute wedding gift”…Finance6 min readFinance6 min read
Oct 21, 2015A story about orientalismI went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with my family sometime between 1998 and 2002. There was an exhibit on “Orientalist” art, mostly French paintings from the 19th century following Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. From very early on, I was a particularly male know-it-all. I read box…Memoir4 min readMemoir4 min read
Oct 19, 2015a funny story about noam chomskywhen i took into logic to satisfy a college math requirement, the professor told this story. noam chomsky was scheduled to give a lecture called “hierarchy and domination” and the lecture was advertised widely on campus (I believe it was at Michigan but I’m not sure). the lecture hall was packed with undergrads, grad students, and professors expecting Chomsky to expound on the nefariousness of American foreign policy.Politics1 min readPolitics1 min read
Oct 19, 2015my woodward bernstein storyWhen i worked at the daily beast, i was assigned to the desk previously occupied by jacob bernstein, the son of carl bernstein and nora ephron. …Russian1 min readRussian1 min read
