My favorite interview question - Human Who Codes
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
Beyond “Woodstein”: Narratives of Investigative Journalism
Using a methodology inspired by structural narratology and by James Hamilton’s [2016. Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism. Cambridge: Harvard] economic analysis of inv...
What’s Unusual about Unusual Ventures?
We were recently on NBC’s Sand Hill Road podcast hosted by Scott McGrew. Here are some highlights from our conversation.
The Real Story Of How I Sold Two Startups, The Chaos Afterwards, And What’s Next – The Health Care Blog
Today we’re starting a series of more personal stories, looking at what makes interesting people in health care tick. Alex Carmichael is a rare multiple time CEO in health technology, and she has a very interesting tale to tell–Matthew Holt
Rob Landley's blog thing for 2009.
Sloppelgängers
Superhuman’s CEO sat for an interview about the AI feature that used writers’ names without permission. What he revealed was worse than the feature itself.
The Steve Ballmer Interview
Selling a story that’s lost the plot
Reflections on the podcast I’m not listening to
Week 8: Doppelbock - Alex's Blog
“CEO said a thing!”
A blistering guide to what lazy journalism too often looks like
The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
Ari Aster on Eddington
Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The director discusses the project's origins and why he feels we're living on the cusp of something new, alarming and deeply strange.
Michael Burns
The "No True Leftist" Fallacy
When Malcolm X Met the Nazis
A look at the strange alliance between the Nation of Islam and the American Nazi Party.
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
