Mar 23Law & Tech Panel: All Tech is Human NYCIn Fall 2019, I moderated a panel on the intersection of law and tech at All Tech is Human NYC, a gathering of leaders in the tech ethics...
Dec 28, 2019Addiction Machines: A Deep Design Critique of the SmartphoneIf you’re at all like the average smartphone user, then you spent about 1,186 hours on your phone in 2019. That’s 50 full days....
Jun 15, 20195 Books, Blogs, & Journals That Will Help You Think Well About Tech Tech is so many things. It’s the medical device that keeps you alive and the mobile device that keeps you from enjoying the life you have...
May 31, 2019IDEO Colab: Civic Tech in SomervilleCoLab is the experimental futures division of IDEO, a global design firm. As a CoLab Fellow, I joined a team of designers, anthropologist...
May 8, 2019Tech for Humans, Part 2: Designing a Human-Centered Future This article was originally featured at YouTheData.com. In Part 1 of this series, we explored the paradox of human-centered design as it...
Apr 24, 2019Tech for Humans, Part 1: The Paradox of Human-Centered Design“Ideate.” “Prototype.” “Iterate.” “Empathize.” These words have become mainstays in the modern tech product team’s vocabulary...
Mar 9, 20193 Takeaways from IDEO's CoLab MakeathonLast weekend, I flew up to Cambridge MA to participate in IDEO CoLab’s 2019 Makeathon, a full day of mini design sprints focused on...
Jan 1, 20196 Books for Making Sense of the Modern WorldHere are 6 books that I've found helpful for understanding the present and thinking critically about the future.