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Jul 31, 2020

Who's to Blame for Bad AI? (originally published by The Independent)

The Independent recently published my essay exploring the roots of unethical technologies in our socioeconomic systems and consumption...

May 31, 2020

Designing the Good Life: My Interview with ICTC

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Kiera Schuller for the Information and Communications Technology Council's Tech & Human...

Mar 23, 2020

Law & Tech Panel: All Tech is Human NYC

In 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, 2019

Addiction Machines: A Deep Design Critique of the Smartphone

If 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, 2019

5 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, 2019

IDEO Colab: Civic Tech in Somerville

CoLab is the experimental futures division of IDEO, a global design firm. As a CoLab Fellow, I joined a team of designers,...

May 8, 2019

Tech 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, 2019

Tech 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, 2019

3 Takeaways from IDEO's CoLab Makeathon

Last 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, 2019

6 Books for Making Sense of the Modern World

Here are 6 books that I've found helpful for understanding the present and thinking critically about the future.

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