SELECTED WORK

Wall Street Journal

• Kevin Systrom’s final interview as CEO of Instagram, the platform he co-founded.

• A rare joint interview with Bill Gates and Satya Nadella, talking Microsoft past, present, and future.

• “The Creators of the Vespa Are Launching a New Product” Adventures in micromobility with a 135-year-old Italian company.

• Spending the day with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, ending in a weird Venice photo booth.

• "Stewart Butterfield, Email Killer" The Slack CEO ruminates on work and life.

• “Meet the Parents” Child prodigy Jack Andraka’s parents explain how to raise a whiz kid.

• “He’s Got Your Back” I hired an “executive close protection specialist” (aka bodyguard) for a night. Wish I always had one!

• "Simplicity and Order for All" Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, wants to be an artist.

• “This Man Wants to Clothe the Planet” The remarkable ambitions of Uniqlo founder Tadashi Yanai.

• “America’s Most Unlikely Business Guru” The idiosyncratic leadership style of Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard.

• “High Plains Drifting” Living the luxury gaucho lifestyle in Argentina.

Slate

• Dispatches from the trial of Sarah Palin v. New York Times Company.

• Dispatches from the trial of USA v. Ghislaine Maxwell.

• “Straw Wars” Plastic, paper, and the gold rush at the center of a comical cultural battle.

• “Guilty” Twenty years after I helped convict a man of murder, I re-investigated the case.

• "How Trump Conned America" Aboard the Trump plane for the final hours of the campaign.

• "A Week on the Trail With the 'Disgusting Reporters' Covering Donald Trump" Life in the press pen.

• "Jeb Bush Was Not a Joke" Discovering my unexpected soft spot for low-energy Jeb.

• "What It's Like to Hit a Man" I tried boxing. Turns out it’s not fun to get punched in the head.

• "Don't Say Goodbye" Just ghost. The viral piece that never dies and always makes people angry.

• "Finding Myself in David Foster Wallace's Notebook" I showed up in his archived notes. It was terrifying.

• "Why Would Anyone Go to Burning Man?" A visit to the playa. Skeptical, but then I caved.

   

New York Times

• "Escape From the Jet Age" An op-ed about the joys of being grounded by a volcano.

• "Hell on Wheels" Against rolling luggage. (Featuring an exotic dateline.)

• "Hamming It Down in Japan" The Nippon Ham Fighters baseball team gets new uniforms.

• “Gimme Temporary Shelter” The quest to design effective emergency housing for refugees.

• “How to Beat Nike” Reporting from the trenches of the sneaker wars.

• "I'd Like to Buy the World a Shelf-Stable Children's Lactic Drink" The Coca-Cola Co gets weird in Japan.

New York

• "The Believer" Former Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin fails, drops out, and communes with the dead.

• "The Perfect Score" Ryan Leslie, the unlikely hip-hop impresario with perfect SATs and a Harvard degree.

• "The Cocktail Creationist" Sidney Frank, the man who invented Grey Goose and Jaegermeister out of thin air.

GQ

• "How to Score an Office Wife" Dos and don'ts in the search for a work spouse.

Wired

• "What Your Klout Score Really Means" The scary possibilities of social status quantification.

The New Republic

• "Forty-five Hours in Hell" Locking myself in an Ohio hotel room to watch the onslaught of swing state campaign ads.