While 2016 was a dumpster fire of news, in 2017 shock and outrage seemed to happen so frequently that I found myself becoming weary of it all.

But on a professional and personal note it was a decent year, which I’ll reflect on here as I did last year.

An orchestra is a bit like a well run company. All of the elements of the orchestra — the strings, the brass, the percussion — are able to come together with a visible, engaged leader to make something better than the sum of its…

Earlier this month writer Lindy West left Twitter, claiming in a blog for the Guardian that it’s now unusable for anyone but trolls, robots and dictators.

This came as something as a surprise to me, as I’m none of these things and I still find it…

2016 has become a byword for misery for almost everyone. But my dreadful year started nine days early, when I ragequit my job three days before Christmas with nothing to go to.

OK, so it started months before then, with all the things that led to me ragequitting my job three…

Each spring analyst Mary Meeker releases one of the most hotly anticipated slide decks of the year (arguably, the only hotly-anticipated slide deck…). Packed with stats on adoption and use of internet technologies, over the…