Galleys

The Prototype Mindset

I was really happy to get an early copy of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas In Just Five Days, by three design partners at Google Ventures, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz. Several years ago, Jake developed the sprint, a process that allows you to quickly…

How Much My Novel Cost Me

Writing my first book got me into debt. To finish the next one, I had to…

Fuck Likeability. Write What You Know. Write Who You Are

‘The terms “hot mess,” “lost,” “disjointed,” and “broken” are very familiar to me . . .’

How We Tried to Design Our Own Book Cover (and How Jessica Hische Saved the Day)

Quick background: In 2010, I created a process called the design sprint, and in 2012, I brought it to Google Ventures. Since then, my fellow partners and I have run more than one hundred…

A Seed Knows How to Wait

A sneak peak of my new memoir, ‘Lab Girl’

Is There Mind After Death?

The science of immortality and the loss of a friend

How Mathematics Can Predict March Madness

As a mathematician, I’ve long been interested in the science of gambling. From lotteries to sports leagues, what is the best strategy? Where are the loopholes? How is it possible to beat the house? With NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship …

Mental Illness and the Call of the Wild

There are times when the world can feel brutally unfunny and dully predictable. But then someone like my former East Stroudsburg University student Jeff White comes…

Behind the Scenes of Gimlet Media’s Sprint with GV

A chapter that didn’t make the cut for my book ‘Sprint’

Over the past year, I wrote a book called Sprint. One of the hardest things about writing a book is cutting parts you like…