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Hi, I'm Danny. I’m managing editor at TechCrunch and I analyze issues of technology and global power. Get in touch at danny@techcrunch.com.

Formerly, I was a venture capitalist at Charles River Ventures and General Catalyst. I'm a Harvard PhD dropout and a graduate of Stanford in Mathematical and Computational Sciences.

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The things I think about every day:

The Rise of China
Data Sovereignty and the fracturing of the internet
Cost Disease
Economic development in the 21st century
The challenge of megaprojects and infrastructure

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2020

February

2020-02-14: The six strategic stages of seed fundraising in 2020 (Extra Crunch)
2020-02-13: The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: Catching up on China’s tech influence operations in America (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: Shutterstock founder and CEO Jon Oringer steps down after 16 years (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: Trump administration aims to protect GPS with new exec order (TechCrunch)
2020-02-13: Nvidia’s Q4 financials look to brighter skies with strong quarterly revenue growth (TechCrunch)
2020-02-11: Equal Ventures raises debut $56M fund to double down on thesis-driven seed (TechCrunch)
2020-02-05: YouTube has seen soaring growth in South Korea (TechCrunch)
2020-02-03: Jenfi wants to solve small business lending in Southeast Asia (TechCrunch)

January

2020-01-29: What is our meaning in life in a world of technology? (TechCrunch)
2020-01-28: Free Agency wants to give every tech worker a career and salary boost (TechCrunch)
2020-01-24: Samasource CEO Leila Janah passes away at 37 (TechCrunch)
2020-01-22: Can a time machine offer us the meaning of life? (TechCrunch)
2020-01-21: Lame LPs, founder referenceability, and the future of VC signaling (TechCrunch)
2020-01-17: The paradox of 2020 VC is that the largest funds are doing the smallest rounds (TechCrunch)
2020-01-16: VCs are just tired (TechCrunch)
2020-01-14: Reading Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (TechCrunch)
2020-01-14: Don’t be a selfless startup (Extra Crunch)
2020-01-07: Join us for the TechCrunch 2020 book club, starting next week (TechCrunch)
2020-01-02: Google has little choice to be evil or not in today’s fractured internet (TechCrunch)

2019

December

2019-12-25: Best Articles I Wrote (2019 Edition) (Homepage)
2019-12-25: Best Books I Read (2019 Edition) (Homepage)
2019-12-22: Best Articles I Read (2019 Edition) (Homepage)
2019-12-21: Should you pay $50K for your pitch deck? Yes, why the hell not? (TechCrunch)
2019-12-21: TikTok’s national security scrutiny tightens as U.S. Navy reportedly bans popular social app (TechCrunch)
2019-12-18: The 48-hour meeting rule (Extra Crunch)
2019-12-15: With $4B food delivery acquisition, Korea poised to enter upper tier of startup hubs (TechCrunch)
2019-12-11: Refocusing on relocation, Jobbatical launches new offices in Spain and Germany (TechCrunch)
2019-12-09: How to avoid the startup trap of the parasitic consultant (Extra Crunch)
2019-12-08: In wake of Shutterstock’s Chinese censorship, American companies need to relearn American values (TechCrunch)
2019-12-03: Gift Guide: 12 must-read books for 2019 as recommended by Extra Crunch readers (TechCrunch)
2019-12-03: Gift Guide: TechCrunch writers recommend their favorite reads from 2019 (TechCrunch)

November

2019-11-19: The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip (TechCrunch)
2019-11-15: Takeaways from Nvidia’s latest quarterly earnings (Extra Crunch)
2019-11-15: Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA with $53M in series A funding (TechCrunch)
2019-11-11: A16Z-backed Shift.org announces veterans hiring pipeline partnership with Better.com (TechCrunch)
2019-11-09: Can America ever rebuild its neighborhoods and communities? (TechCrunch)

October

2019-10-29: Where top VCs are investing in cybersecurity (Extra Crunch)
2019-10-29: The future of cybersecurity VC investing with Lightspeed’s Arif Janmohamed (Extra Crunch)
2019-10-25: From the NBA to Sequoia to TikTok and more, a week of national security concerns with China (TechCrunch)
2019-10-23: Ghost CMS adds open-source subscription and membership options (TechCrunch)
2019-10-22: Don’t wait to plan your exit, even if it’s years away (Extra Crunch)
2019-10-17: ‘Cloud kitchens’ is an oxymoron (TechCrunch)
2019-10-17: How to radically change finance through startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin (TechCrunch)
2019-10-15: Product lessons from building our subscription service Extra Crunch (TechCrunch)
2019-10-07: The NBA should learn from Google China (TechCrunch)
2019-10-06: Top VCs in Edtech, Dropbox, first mover advantage, India’s Netflix, scooters, and more (Extra Crunch)

September

2019-09-28: WeWork proves that (venture) capitalism works (TechCrunch)
2019-09-28: How to become a VC, Amazon’s voice play, Peloton stock, Facebook’s new VR environment and more (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-26: Summer wants to vanquish student loans for borrowers, and now has $10M to do it (TechCrunch)
2019-09-26: Paro raises $10 million series B to offer corporate finance expertise on demand (TechCrunch)
2019-09-26: Tribe leads $12M Series A into Teampay to make managing employee expenses painless (TechCrunch)
2019-09-25: Vannevar Labs comes out of stealth to bring best-in-class AI tech to national security agencies (TechCrunch)
2019-09-25: How to sell a startup for a $1B, Automattic, WeWork craziness, Kobalt, Netflix, Blackstone, and ClimateTech (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-25: ZenBusiness raises $10m to help founders launch and grow “worry-free” (TechCrunch)
2019-09-25: Fractional home ownership startup Divvy raises $43m series B to build a path from rent to purchase (TechCrunch)
2019-09-24: Fundbox raises $176 million Series C to build ‘Visa’ for B2B payments (TechCrunch)
2019-09-18: Startup growth hacks, high-frequency trading, startup security, privacy, and Adobe (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-14: SexTech, Kobalt, sales efficiency, philanthropy and ethics, Brexit, and startup growth tactics (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-11: The weird things after closing a venture round, iPhone 11, AI ad errors, and Cloud Foundry (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-07: What top enterprise VCs are thinking, using data effectively, ethics, Light, and Flipkart (Extra Crunch)
2019-09-07: Joi Ito resigns as MIT Media Lab head in wake of Jeffrey Epstein reporting (TechCrunch)
2019-09-07: After Epstein, it’s time for the Valley to find a moral view on capital (TechCrunch)
2019-09-06: Discover the Extra Crunch stage at Disrupt SF this October (TechCrunch)
2019-09-04: Top EC articles in August, Apple privacy woes, autonomous delivery robotics Starship, and Zhihu (Extra Crunch)

August

2019-08-30: Fitbit, Andela, AfricaTech, startups and Brexit, plus content moderation (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-28: Building brands on Amazon, investing in customer success, quantum computing, and virtual reality (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-27: How to move from VP of Sales to CRO with leading exec recruiter David Ives (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-24: Y Combinator Demo Day, revenue-based VC funding, Pivotal, Dell, Tumblr, WeWork, and more (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-22: A $44m series B Drop in the bucket for millennial loyalty (TechCrunch)
2019-08-19: The five technical challenges Cerebras overcame in building the first trillion transistor chip (TechCrunch)
2019-08-16: Voyage’s driverless future, ghost work, B2B growth strategies, and Black Hat takeaways (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-14: WeWork S-1, building marketplaces, improving content marketing, and the demise of Tumblr (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-14: WeWork’s S-1 misses these three key points (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-12: How young VCs bootstrap new venture firms (TechCrunch)
2019-08-10: Kobalt, Apple and smartwatches, Hadoop, customer support, and social work and AI (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-07: Morty raises $8.5M series A to help first-time homebuyers secure their mortgages (TechCrunch)
2019-08-07: HealthTech VCs, fundraising in August, reducing churn, North, and co-ops as startups (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-07: How to fundraise in August (Extra Crunch)
2019-08-04: Series A(ggregate) (TechCrunch)
2019-08-03: Pro rata rights, immigration, the sharing economy, AWS, Ray Dalio, and China’s smartphones (Extra Crunch)

July

2019-07-31: Dreading 10x engineers, virtual beings, the fate of Netflix, and Salesforce’s acquisition (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-30: Catalyst raises $15M from Accel to transform data-driven customer success (TechCrunch)
2019-07-27: Spacetech growth, the future of micromobility, and how to solve the hell of open offices (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-26: Why the hell is Robinhood worth $7.6B? (TechCrunch)
2019-07-26: Fintech decacorn Nubank raises $400M led by TCV (TechCrunch)
2019-07-24: Fintech mega rounds, Gogoro scooters, Waymo, Shift, Microsoft, and employee engagement (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-24: SMB payroll startup Gusto raises $200m series D, plans R&D expansion to NYC (TechCrunch)
2019-07-24: Why do media companies struggle to produce anything of value? (TechCrunch)
2019-07-23: From liberal arts PhD to pre-IPO startup CEO with Shift’s Toby Russell (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-23: Embedded finance, or why fintech mega VC rounds have become so common (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-20: US national security, climate change, startup HR, and launching in the Midwest (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-17: VidCon, seed-stage dilution, advertising, privacy, and building a career in design (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-13: Is blitzscaling killing early employee equity opportunities? (TechCrunch)
2019-07-13: W(hy)TF are Japan and South Korea in a trade war? (TechCrunch)
2019-07-13: Roblox EC-1, immigration requirements doubling, grief in the workplace, and cannabis startups (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-10: Cars-as-a-service, Alibaba and ridehailing, mental health, and the future of financial services (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-03: Book Review: Will & Ariel Durant’s The Lessons of History (Homepage)
2019-07-03: Colonna call, timing a VC pitch, WeChat, patents, and growth (Extra Crunch)
2019-07-02: Fast Forward raises new war chest to fight Silicon Valley’s inequality machine (TechCrunch)

June

2019-06-30: Book Review: Nigel Collett’s A Death in Hong Kong (Homepage)
2019-06-29: What’s up with Lidar, crypto mafias, influencer marketing, Shuttl, and assistive tech (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-26: Vertical market networks, effective startup names, Libra, Carbon, and Sidewalk Labs (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-26: Web3 platform 3Box raises seed to bring back control of user data (TechCrunch)
2019-06-22: Ray Dalio, Niantic, Adobe, Dropbox, remote work, Northzone, and Slack (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-20: Transitioning from engineering to product with Adobe’s Anjul Bhambhri (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-19: Machine learning for everyone startup Intersect Labs launches platform for data analysis (TechCrunch)
2019-06-19: Founder salaries, diversity tactics, fintech roboadvisors, and startups improving mental health (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-18: Two Sigma leads $12m series A for expert knowledge network NewtonX (TechCrunch)
2019-06-17: Decentralized video infrastructure platform Livepeer raises $8m series A (TechCrunch)
2019-06-15: Getting remote work working, A16Z in LatAm, transferring H-1Bs, and Uber Air taxis (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-12: ARM shows SoftBank does tech PE the right way (TechCrunch)
2019-06-12: Do VC associates matter, women’s fertility, online auto marketplaces, and Salesforce + Tableau (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-12: Fundraising 101: Do VC associates matter? (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-08: A16Z interview, 5G, Peloton, handling Big Tech issues, and offering better benefits (Extra Crunch)
2019-06-05: Peloton IPO, VC alternatives, privacy at Apple, and cybersecurity returns (Extra Crunch)

May

2019-05-29: How to trigger FOMO among VCs, plus PMs, SoftBank, and cheese (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-25: Growth, Kubernetes, rocket launches, gender in tech, and more Luckin Coffee (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-22: Getaround, Facebook, AI chips, Nvidia, Africa, and immigration (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-20: U.S. mitigates Huawei ban by offering temporary reprieve (TechCrunch)
2019-05-20: When will customers start buying all those AI chips? (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-20: Why startups need to be careful about export licenses and the Huawei ban (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-20: MIT and U.S. Air Force team up to launch AI accelerator (TechCrunch)
2019-05-18: Immigrant founders, smartphone growth, SEO tactics, SoftBank’s financials, and AR tech (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-17: At this point, SoftBank Group is really just its Vision Fund (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-16: How to see our world in a new light (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-15: Zoom, housing affordability, Mailchimp, Yext, and Uber (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-15: What Uber and Lyft’s investment bankers got right (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-13: The misunderstandings of 18-month-old Luckin’s $500m IPO (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-11: EC-exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Slacklash, and tech inclusion (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-08: Media VC theses, SEO keywords, cosmology, and brand design (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-05: Equity transcribed: New a16z funds, a $200M round and the latest from WeWork and Slack (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-03: Great teams, UBI, data retention policies, and Amazon HQ2 (Extra Crunch)
2019-05-02: A Bounty of Convenience—and, Maybe, Opportunity (City Journal)
2019-05-01: Final Niantic EC-1 lessons, F8 call, Slack, WeWork, and TED (Extra Crunch)

April

2019-04-30: The curious case of Slack’s missing $163 million (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-30: Cushion wants to negotiate bank service fees on your behalf (TechCrunch)
2019-04-29: What we want to know in the We Company (WeWork) S-1 (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-28: The demise and rebirth of the ethical engineer (TechCrunch)
2019-04-27: Sending severed heads, and even more PR DON’Ts (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-27: Bad PR ideas, esports, and the Valley’s talent poaching war (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-24: How to avoid PR disasters, the new web, and who owns Huawei? (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-23: The master list of PR DON’Ts (or how not to piss off the writer covering your startup) (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-23: How to pitch to a (tech) journalist (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-22: Why it’s so hard to know who owns Huawei (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-20: No one knows how to hire, plus brand design and African tech (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-17: Google Cloud, McDonald’s big tech acquisition, and motivating an engineering team (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-13: Niantic EC-1, Part 3 and what the data show are the best fundraising decks (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-10: AI dumbos, Niantic, mobility, design, and Google Next (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-06: Scooters, remote workers, ethics, the future of fintech, etc. (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-04: The future of scooters and media (but not scooter media!) (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-03: Compliance, ethics, and live calls (Extra Crunch)
2019-04-02: April Fools’ Day, rebuilding edtech, and trash fires (Extra Crunch)

March

2019-03-30: Gaming, crypto, shipping and the multiple future strategies of tech (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-29: The Niantic EC-1 (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-29: Form D filings, logistics, and Niantic (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-28: Crypto 2.0, accessibility, and Apple’s future strategy (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-28: How to delay your Form Ds (or not file them at all) (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-27: New experiments with transcripts, plus game streaming and social platforms (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-23: A week of game streaming and earthquakes (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-22: North Korea’s new website and pro rata rights (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-21: Taxes on VC and electric buses (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-20: Exascale Supercomputers (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-19: Simulations, SAFEs, and China beats America in AI patents (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-19: Patreon’s new fees are surprisingly low (TechCrunch)
2019-03-16: Apple kerfuffles, praise groups, and media layoffs (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-16: Bitcoin, SXSW, NGINX, and grade hacking (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-15: Pi Day wasn’t pleasant for a lot of tech execs (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-14: Can there be too much competition between startups? (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-13: The meaning of Nginx and F5 (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-12: NVIDIA and OpenAI’s capped returns (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-09: Profits, contracts, agrifood, and podcasts (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-08: Who are the next billion users and what do they want? (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-07: Huawei sues America as SoftBank spends more money (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-06: Dragonfly, ethics, and infrastructure spending (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-05: Google employees can’t just walk away from ethical tradeoffs like Dragonfly (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-04: Can predictive analytics be made safe for humans? (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-02: Fertility, India, Steam and Term Sheets (Extra Crunch)
2019-03-01: How far are you willing to go for growth? (Extra Crunch)

February

2019-02-28: Why can’t we build anything? (Part 2) (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-27: Why longer term sheets are better (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-26: India’s entrepreneurial future (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-25: With China tariffs delayed, Beijing faces startup dilemma (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-23: Lawyers, STOs, and robots in the operating rooms (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-22: Can we ever evaluate technical debt? (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-21: Blockchain is solid, in that there is no liquidity (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-21: Trump calls for 6G cellular technology, because why the heck not (TechCrunch)
2019-02-20: Timing and why we’re all VCs (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-19: Why can’t we build anything? (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-16: Extra Crunch Weekly: The Launch (TechCrunch)
2019-02-15: Urban unicorn renewal (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-12: The Patreon EC-1 (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-12: Announcing Extra Crunch (Extra Crunch)
2019-02-04: Equity Shot: All about Slack’s confidential IPO filing (TechCrunch)
2019-02-04: Why no one really quits Google or Facebook (TechCrunch)
2019-02-01: H1-B changes will simplify application process (TechCrunch)

January

2019-01-31: Foxconn is killing a second $9B factory (TechCrunch)
2019-01-30: Foxconn pulls back on its $10 billion dollar factory commitment (TechCrunch)
2019-01-29: Petal raises $30m from Valar to bank the unbanked with credit cards (TechCrunch)
2019-01-29: YC-backed Oxygen raises seed to bring digital banking to freelancers (TechCrunch)
2019-01-28: China’s social credit system won’t tell you what you can do right (TechCrunch)
2019-01-24: Trust & Will closes first electronic will in the US (plus $2m investment) (TechCrunch)
2019-01-23: YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know that the planet is doing okay (TechCrunch)
2019-01-18: Is your time worth more than $0.30 an hour? (TechCrunch)
2019-01-18: University of Virginia announces $120m gift to fund new data science school (TechCrunch)
2019-01-16: YC-backed Upsolve is automating bankruptcy for everyone (TechCrunch)
2019-01-15: How do you fight an algorithm you cannot see? (TechCrunch)
2019-01-14: Geoengineering could solve our climate problems if anyone allowed it (TechCrunch)
2019-01-11: The U.S. continues to hammer Chinese tech (TechCrunch)
2019-01-10: The rise of (societal) resilience tech (TechCrunch)
2019-01-07: Open source monetization startup Tidelift raises $25m series B (TechCrunch)
2019-01-01: Best Articles I Read (2018 Edition) (Homepage)
2019-01-01: Best Articles I Wrote (2018 Edition) (Homepage)

2018

December

2018-12-30: Two dystopias for the holidays: We & The Handmaid’s Tale (Homepage)
2018-12-21: Layer1 wants to thrive in the age of the crypto crash (TechCrunch)
2018-12-21: Writing Review for Week of Dec 17, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-12-21: SoftBank’s triple, Pinterest is going public and the market meltdown (TechCrunch)
2018-12-21: The GPS wars have begun (TechCrunch)
2018-12-19: With today’s IPO sinking, a year of highs and lows for SoftBank (TechCrunch)
2018-12-14: Ridesharing IPOs and $850M for Luckin, Plaid and Zymergen (TechCrunch)
2018-12-14: Nvidia’s limited China connections (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-14: Writing Review for Weeks of Dec 3 & 10, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-12-13: On stock prices and Nvidia (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-12: After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-11: Huawei, Google, and the tiring politics of tech (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-08: The nation-state of the internet (TechCrunch)
2018-12-06: The trust dilemma of continuous background checks (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-05: Foxconn or Foxgone? Tariffs, Wisconsin, and iPhone fires (TechCrunch)
2018-12-04: Why Oath keeps Tumblring (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-03: Investors still don’t understand the fundamentals of US/China relations (Extra Crunch)

November

2018-11-25: Writing Review for Weeks of Nov 12 & 19, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-11-16: Uber’s financials, Qualtric’s $8B exit and what’s going on at WeWork (TechCrunch)
2018-11-14: Amazon did exactly what it should have with its HQ2 process (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-13: Open sourcing analysis, plus US, China and HQ2 (TechCrunch)
2018-11-12: Okay, one final Form D note (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-10: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 29 & Nov 5, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-11-09: SoftBank’s debt, Ford buys Spin, and Chinese coffee is huge money (TechCrunch)
2018-11-09: Rakuten has SoftBank in its sights (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-08: Japan is cracking down on SoftBank’s revenue (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-07: The disappearing Form D (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-06: SoftBank’s debt obsession (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-05: Technology and tyranny, lying to ourselves, and Spotify’s $1b repurchase (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-04: Why we lie to ourselves every day (TechCrunch)
2018-11-02: Fortnight’s funding royale, China struggles, and Coinbase gets a boost to $8 billion (TechCrunch)

October

2018-10-28: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 15 & 22, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-10-26: Market turmoil, billion-dollar funds and the Qualtrics IPO (TechCrunch)
2018-10-25: One-year-old Ribbon raises $225m to remove the biggest stress of home buying (TechCrunch)
2018-10-20: In State Tectonics, an explosive ending for the future of democracy (TechCrunch)
2018-10-19: Twilio shops, Uber and Lyft IPO scuttlebutt, and Instacart raises $600M (TechCrunch)
2018-10-15: MIT announces new college of computing with $1 billion commitment (TechCrunch)
2018-10-13: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 1 & 8, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-10-12: Blood capital, WeWork whisperings, and gobs of cash for smiles and vegetables (TechCrunch)
2018-10-05: Elon’s sick burn, Coinbase funding rumors and VC hiring trends (TechCrunch)
2018-10-03: Upwork pops more than 50 percent in Nasdaq debut (TechCrunch)
2018-10-02: NYC wants to build a cyber army (TechCrunch)

September

2018-09-30: Writing Review for Week of Sept 24, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-09-28: Chaos engineering service Gremlin raises $18m, launches new resiliency tools (TechCrunch)
2018-09-28: SoftBank pays big, SurveyMonkey goes public and JUUL’s next step (TechCrunch)
2018-09-25: The death of once high-flying VC funds (TechCrunch)
2018-09-24: China splits the internet while the U.S. dithers (TechCrunch)
2018-09-22: Writing Review for Week of Sept 17, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-09-18: Answering its critics, Google loosens reins on AMP project (TechCrunch)
2018-09-18: 12 years in, Techstars doubles down on corporate relationships (TechCrunch)
2018-09-17: Trump expands tariffs on China by another $200 billion, threatens more (TechCrunch)
2018-09-16: In Bad Blood, a pedestrian tale of heuristics and lies (TechCrunch)
2018-09-14: Writing Review for Week of Sept 10, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-09-14: Crypto’s second bubble, Juul has 60 days and three Chinese IPOs (TechCrunch)
2018-09-13: The second blockchain bubble is now complete - what’s next? (TechCrunch)
2018-09-12: Spearhead is transforming founders into angel investors (TechCrunch)
2018-09-11: Writing Review for Weeks of Aug 1-Sept 9, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-09-10: Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns (TechCrunch)
2018-09-10: Apple’s 5G iPhone conundrum (TechCrunch)
2018-09-07: Trump wants to just tariff the hell out of China (TechCrunch)
2018-09-07: Equity podcast live from Disrupt SF: Peak Valley Edition (TechCrunch)
2018-09-06: Benchmark and Tiger double down on going public (TechCrunch)
2018-09-03: Fall 2018 tech IPOs face myriad of headwinds (TechCrunch)
2018-09-02: For Labor Day, work harder (TechCrunch)

August

2018-08-22: Lolli launches to give you free Bitcoin while you shop (TechCrunch)
2018-08-15: Fighting food waste, Full Harvest raises $8.5m to bring excess produce to commercial buyers (TechCrunch)
2018-08-04: Writing Review for Week of July 30, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-08-04: Washington hit China hard on tech influence this week (TechCrunch)
2018-08-04: India may become next restricted market for U.S. cloud providers (TechCrunch)
2018-08-04: Virus shuts down factories of major iPhone component manufacturer TSMC (TechCrunch)
2018-08-02: Campuswire launches to redesign classroom communications (TechCrunch)

July

2018-07-29: Writing Review for Week of July 23, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-07-24: Unlock wants to rebuild your feed through a decentralized paywall (TechCrunch)
2018-07-24: Alphabet earnings and the jaws of antitrust (TechCrunch)
2018-07-23: The death and life of the tech press (TechCrunch)
2018-07-20: Oscar and Lemonade founders will join us at Disrupt SF to strategize about the future of insurance innovation (TechCrunch)
2018-07-20: Writing Review for Weeks of July 9th & July 16th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-07-19: Even raises $40m to transform the working class to the savings class (TechCrunch)
2018-07-18: Brat raises $30 million to reboot scripted television for the Gen Z crowd (TechCrunch)
2018-07-09: Writing Review for Week of July 2nd, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-07-06: Fireside Chat with Joe Lubin (ConsenSys) (TechCrunch)
2018-07-06: Parity’s Jutta Steiner says the future of blockchain is many chains working together (TechCrunch)
2018-07-06: In Conversation with Hope Liu (Eximchain), Gil Perez (SAP) and Gert Sylvest (Tradeshift) (TechCrunch)
2018-07-06: China VC has overtaken Silicon Valley, but do aggregate numbers tell the whole story? (TechCrunch)

June

2018-06-29: Writing Review for Week of June 25th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-06-28: JASK nets $25m from Kleiner to build out autonomous security operations (TechCrunch)
2018-06-28: Instead of points, Bumped gives equity in the companies you shop at (TechCrunch)
2018-06-24: Writing Review for Week of June 18th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-06-23: How backups, backups, backups protect Verizon’s NYC cellular infrastructure (TechCrunch)
2018-06-23: In Army of None, a field guide to the coming world of autonomous warfare (TechCrunch)
2018-06-23: Open source sustainability (TechCrunch)
2018-06-21: Disrupting the paycheck, Gusto’s Flexible Pay allows employees to pick when they get paid (TechCrunch)
2018-06-21: CivTech Scotland wants to procure what no one knows exists (TechCrunch)
2018-06-19: Patriot Boot Camp wants to turn soldiers into entrepreneurs (TechCrunch)
2018-06-19: Using tech and $100m, Dr Consulta transforms healthcare for the poorest (TechCrunch)
2018-06-18: Writing Review for Week of June 11th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-06-14: NXP-Qualcomm $44b deal to clear China as Trump authorizes $50b tariffs (TechCrunch)
2018-06-14: ZTE has few cards left to play to avoid “death penalty” (TechCrunch)
2018-06-14: 3,000 journalists covering Kim-Trump this week is WTF is wrong with media (TechCrunch)
2018-06-12: Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast (TechCrunch)
2018-06-11: Automated dev platform CircleCI expands to Japan, first office outside U.S. (TechCrunch)
2018-06-11: With strategic investment, Insilico Medicine is using deep learning to defeat aging (TechCrunch)
2018-06-11: Writing Review for Week of June 4th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-06-07: With index changes, American are sending billions to China (whether they know it or not) (TechCrunch)
2018-06-07: ZTE fined $1 billion (TechCrunch)
2018-06-07: M17 delays IPO debut after pricing this morning on NYSE (TechCrunch)
2018-06-05: Xiaomi CDRs, SoftBank’s successors, and China’s Samsung investigation (TechCrunch)

May

2018-05-30: Coord will get you there one way or another with its new APIs (TechCrunch)
2018-05-29: U.S. announces timeline for new 25% tariff on Chinese tech products (TechCrunch)
2018-05-29: GDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google (TechCrunch)
2018-05-24: The national security implications of Chinese venture capitalists are overblown (TechCrunch)
2018-05-13: Subscriptions for the 1% (TechCrunch)
2018-05-09: MoviePass parent’s free fall continues with another 46% drop (TechCrunch)
2018-05-08: MoviePass parent closes down 31% as company warns of looming cash crunch (TechCrunch)
2018-05-08: A Google I/O conversation (TechCrunch)
2018-05-08: White House will host tech industry for AI summit on Thursday (TechCrunch)
2018-05-07: Backstage Capital launches $36m fund to boost black female founders (TechCrunch)
2018-05-07: With MIT launched, Learning Machine raises seed to replace paper with blockchain credentials (TechCrunch)
2018-05-07: China closing in on massive new chip fund in bid to dominate Intel, Qualcomm, and other US chip companies (TechCrunch)
2018-05-06: Enterprise wasn’t ready for blockchain, so Manifold brought its ledger to consumers instead (TechCrunch)
2018-05-06: Technical ignorance is not leadership (TechCrunch)
2018-05-06: Subscription hell (TechCrunch)
2018-05-01: Eliot Peper’s Bandwidth is a riveting novel exploring the dark side of feeds and geopolitics (TechCrunch)

April

2018-04-28: Solving the affordability crisis one Chattanooga at a time (TechCrunch)
2018-04-28: Emissary wants to make sales networking obsolete (TechCrunch)
2018-04-28: From dorm room to Starbucks, Rip Van Wafels is bringing Euro-inspired snack to the masses (TechCrunch)
2018-04-26: The 5G wireless revolution will come, if your city council doesn’t block it first (TechCrunch)
2018-04-24: Catalyst brothers find capital success with $2.4m from True (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Timescale is leading the next wave of NYC database tech (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Special Report: New York’s enterprise infrastructure ecosystem (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Through luck and grit, Datadog is fusing the culture of developers and operations (TechCrunch)
2018-04-16: As Chinese censorship intensifies, gays are back while teenage mothers and tattoos are out (TechCrunch)
2018-04-14: Austin is piloting blockchain to improve homeless services (TechCrunch)
2018-04-11: Element wants to give identity to the whole world, raising $12m series A (TechCrunch)
2018-04-10: In an ecosystem rife with age discrimination, new research shows the average successful founder is in their 40s (TechCrunch)
2018-04-09: Congress should demand Zuckerberg move to “one share, one vote” (TechCrunch)
2018-04-09: Department of Energy hosts competition to train cyber defense warriors (TechCrunch)
2018-04-07: Can SaaS principles transform political campaigns as we know them? (TechCrunch)
2018-04-07: RSS is undead (TechCrunch)
2018-04-06: Venture Capital Disrupted (Princeton 2018 Spring Lecture) (Homepage)
2018-04-05: Should AI researchers kill people? Sadly, they may not have a choice (TechCrunch)
2018-04-04: Some data science on the newly-released Trump and China tariffs lists (TechCrunch)
2018-04-03: South Korean capital Seoul mulls “S-Coin” cryptocurrency and blockchain-based government (TechCrunch)
2018-04-03: Trump should invest in Amazon, not destroy it (TechCrunch)
2018-04-02: WTF are CDRs? (other than a potential trillion dollar market) (TechCrunch)
2018-04-02: Markets drop sharply as China implements new tariffs against U.S. (TechCrunch)

March

2018-03-29: Wild Type raises $3.5m to reinvent meat for the 21st century (TechCrunch)
2018-03-28: Princeton study shows that very few affiliate marketers make required disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest (TechCrunch)
2018-03-26: China offers to buy more U.S. semiconductors as it mulls stabbing Qualcomm in the back (TechCrunch)
2018-03-24: JASK and the future of autonomous cybersecurity (TechCrunch)
2018-03-22: Trump announces $60 billion tariff on Chinese high-tech and other goods (TechCrunch)
2018-03-21: The nuanced challenges of antitrust and AT&T-Time Warner (TechCrunch)
2018-03-21: Peer-reviewed study shows Cardiogram and Apple Watch can accurately determine atrial fibrillation (TechCrunch)
2018-03-19: Secret microLED labs, Apple R&D, and the future of product margins (TechCrunch)
2018-03-19: Tech industry comes out swinging against potential Trump tariffs (TechCrunch)
2018-03-17: Qualcomm’s war may be over, but the casualties are just starting to be calculated (TechCrunch)
2018-03-16: Small businesses love free stuff, so Gusto is giving them free HR Basics (TechCrunch)
2018-03-15: Washington starting to wake up to threats of AI with new task force (TechCrunch)
2018-03-13: Trump readying “all of the above” fusillade on Chinese tech (TechCrunch)
2018-03-12: Trump administration’s block in Qualcomm vs. Broadcom merger should shake tech to its core (TechCrunch)
2018-03-11: VCs have discovered the Midwest (TechCrunch)
2018-03-11: We need to improve the accuracy of AI accuracy discussions (TechCrunch)
2018-03-10: The incredible multi-dimensional chess of Qualcomm vs. Broadcom (TechCrunch)
2018-03-05: Shortly, even the CEO will be outsourced to an online labor marketplace (TechCrunch)
2018-03-05: Taking on the Big 4 accounting giants, Paro receives $5m for its labor marketplace for financial professionals (TechCrunch)
2018-03-04: WTF is CFIUS? (TechCrunch)
2018-03-03: No one wants to build a “feel good” internet (TechCrunch)

February

2018-02-26: ZenBusiness raises $4.5m to help launch one million small businesses by 2023 (TechCrunch)
2018-02-24: Programming as craft (TechCrunch)
2018-02-24: Liquid democracy uses blockchain to fix politics, and now you can vote for it (TechCrunch)
2018-02-22: Teampay raises $4m so you don’t have to steal your CEO’s credit card anymore (TechCrunch)
2018-02-21: Blockchain is entering the valley of despair phase, and that’s a mistake (TechCrunch)
2018-02-19: Algorithmic zoning could be the answer to cheaper housing and more equitable cities (TechCrunch)
2018-02-17: Digital nomads are hiring and firing their governments (TechCrunch)
2018-02-17: Engineering against all odds, or how NYC’s subway will get wireless in the tunnels (TechCrunch)
2018-02-15: Uncommon.co launches and raises $18m to bring objectivity and efficiency to hiring (TechCrunch)
2018-02-13: Traction Tech Council launches to help IT execs spend money on the right startups (TechCrunch)
2018-02-10: HR has lost the trust of employees. Here is who has it now (TechCrunch)
2018-02-08: The real consequences of fake porn and news (TechCrunch)
2018-02-07: Brainjunk and the killing of the internet mind (TechCrunch)
2018-02-06: Scaling a bootstrapped business is next frontier of entrepreneurship for Evan Frank (TechCrunch)
2018-02-04: Hate your boss? B12 is designing work without (human) managers (TechCrunch)
2018-02-04: The rise of chaos engineering (TechCrunch)

January

2018-01-30: NEA leads $21m round for Drop, a rewards app for millennials (TechCrunch)
2018-01-28: The legacy of Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, who passed today at 91 (TechCrunch)
2018-01-27: Scout networks are latest VC salvo in war for founders (TechCrunch)
2018-01-27: Move slow and break nothing (TechCrunch)
2018-01-22: Ex-Uber Maps exec Brian McClendon running for office (TechCrunch)
2018-01-21: Startups, high-speed rail and California’s infrastructure future (TechCrunch)
2018-01-20: The Chinese think Palo Alto is dumpy (TechCrunch)
2018-01-20: Mike Moritz and the declining America worker (TechCrunch)
2018-01-19: Yes, cities should indeed fight for tech jobs (TechCrunch)
2018-01-16: DefinedCrowd’s next-gen platform solves the AI data acquisition problem (TechCrunch)
2018-01-15: One year old Pony.ai raises $112 million Series A to build autonomous car future (TechCrunch)
2018-01-13: Why is health care so damn expensive? (TechCrunch)
2018-01-09: How much do we really know? (Homepage)
2018-01-09: Developer Social Network StackShare Raises $5.2 million from e.Ventures (TechCrunch)
2018-01-08: It’s a walrus! No, it’s a giraffe! No, it’s Micgoat, a new app to debate controversial issues (TechCrunch)
2018-01-06: RIP IPO (1602-2018) (TechCrunch)
2018-01-04: Can municipal broadband save the open internet? (TechCrunch)

2017

December

2017-12-29: All 50 states vote yes on AT&T’s $40 billion emergency response network FirstNet (TechCrunch)
2017-12-29: My Favorite Books of the Year 2017 (Homepage)
2017-12-28: Crypto prices suffer as Korean government announces new regs, potential ban (TechCrunch)
2017-12-28: Uber’s Frankenboard arrives (TechCrunch)
2017-12-21: Apple’s Design Delirium (TechCrunch)
2017-12-21: Thank Kim Jong Un for your crypto gains (TechCrunch)
2017-12-20: The rich can breathe a sigh of relief (TechCrunch)
2017-12-19: The Problem of Books (Homepage)
2017-12-19: Ultra-fast 5G wireless service declared national security priority by White House (TechCrunch)
2017-12-17: Negativity and startups (TechCrunch)
2017-12-16: Do good companies ICO? (TechCrunch)
2017-12-12: Homeis, a culture network for immigrants, launches and nabs $4m seed round led by Spark Capital (TechCrunch)
2017-12-12: Clubhouse nets $10m Series A from Battery Ventures to make software development fun again (TechCrunch)
2017-12-11: LiDAR autonomous sensor startup Ouster announces $27M Series A led by auto powerhouse Cox Enterprises (TechCrunch)
2017-12-09: The 5-year bootstrapped odyssey of Sno-Go, a snow bike for the everyday ski mountain visitor (TechCrunch)
2017-12-07: Spark Capital leads $3.3m round into Boston-based, on-demand life sciences marketplace Clora (TechCrunch)
2017-12-06: As Cook and Pichai leave China, Valley confronts rising internet tyranny in world’s second largest market (TechCrunch)
2017-12-05: Intuit’s ‘rise of the rest’ M&A strategy means large paydays outside the Valley (TechCrunch)
2017-12-04: The loss of first check investors (TechCrunch)

October

2017-10-31: What Happens When All Content Is Just Pee In The Pool (Homepage)
2017-10-28: Why is Communication Around (Work) Promotions / Salaries So Bad? (Homepage)
2017-10-27: What Would You Do If You Could Reinvent Government? (Homepage)
2017-10-20: 2017 and Regulated Businesses (Princeton Fall 2017 Lecture) (Homepage)
2017-10-17: Why Millennials Won't Run For Public Office (Homepage)
2017-10-15: Why is American Disaster Recovery So Bad? (Homepage)
2017-10-02: Economic Nationalism and China: The Right Issue for 2018 and 2020? (Homepage)
2017-10-01: The Strange Politics of Independence Movements (Homepage)

September

2017-09-30: Capsule Review: Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem (Homepage)
2017-09-29: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Airtable as a Personal CRM (Homepage)
2017-09-28: Some Quick Thoughts on The Other Side of the Table (Homepage)

August

2017-08-03: The Economic Security of High Rents and Ridiculous Job Licensing (Homepage)

July

2017-07-22: Safety is the Watchword of Cost Disease (Homepage)
2017-07-18: The Problem With Subscription Software/Media Is High Prices (Homepage)
2017-07-17: Startups, Income Inequality, and the Basic Economy (Homepage)
2017-07-02: The Age of Investigative Tech Journalism (Homepage)
2017-07-02: Will Autonomous Cars Destroy Cities As We Know Them? (Homepage)

June

2017-06-17: Is war with China inevitable? (Homepage)

April

2017-04-14: Searching for that Yellow Brick Road (Princeton Spring 2017 Lecture) (Homepage)

January

2017-01-11: Good Lord, Of Course Red Lights Will Still Be Here With Autonomous Cars (Homepage)
2017-01-05: RipVanWinkle.js — Returning to JavaScript After 5 Years (Homepage)
2017-01-03: “Artificial Intelligence” & “Big Data” Are Newest Entries to My 2017 Dictionary of Uselessness (Homepage)

2016

November

2016-11-11: Princeton Fall 2016 Lecture (Homepage)

October

2016-10-13: The Future Public Transit Explosion (Homepage)
2016-10-11: Leaderless Rounds and the Problem of Weasel.vc (Homepage)

September

2016-09-22: Observations on NYC Tech (Homepage)

August

2016-08-31: Housing Rant (Part Infinity) and the Economics of Hookups (Homepage)
2016-08-30: Housing Prices Should Go Down - Duh! (Homepage)
2016-08-30: The Desperate Docker Disaster (Homepage)
2016-08-21: What I Have Been Reading (Summer 2016) (Homepage)

July

2016-07-06: The Desperate Waves of Venture Capital (Homepage)

June

2016-06-29: A Plan For New York (Homepage)
2016-06-28: Some Final Thoughts On Boston (Homepage)

May

2016-05-17: Graph Associations for Language Learning (Homepage)
2016-05-15: I Quit: 2+ Years of Anki and the (Near) Impossibility of Learning Languages (Homepage)

March

2016-03-21: Is San Francisco Too Expensive For Startups? (Homepage)

January

2016-01-10: Political Disintegration and Realignment (Homepage)
2016-01-04: Reading Less, But Better (Homepage)
2016-01-02: What I Read Last Year (2016 Edition) (Homepage)

2015

December

2015-12-02: The Housing Paradox (Homepage)
2015-12-02: The Radical Idea of $1000/mo Rent (Homepage)

November

2015-11-30: Universities Churn Out Junk, And Get Paid For It (Homepage)
2015-11-10: Can We Just Ban Outrage? (Homepage)

October

2015-10-29: Where Do You Find Strategic Writers? (Homepage)
2015-10-28: Some Thoughts About the Work of Tech Journalists in 2015 (Homepage)
2015-10-27: Boston's Seaport and Its Planning Disaster (Homepage)
2015-10-26: The Asshole Test of Human Resources Products (Homepage)
2015-10-23: A New Website and the Dangers of Stupid Optimization (Homepage)

September

2015-09-20: Avoiding Apes By Building Equity Culture (TechCrunch)
2015-09-20: The Road To A Better World (Or My New Investment Thesis) (Homepage)

August

2015-08-05: Short Thoughts On Current Engineer Salaries in Silicon Valley (Homepage)
2015-08-04: Republic Launches New Platform To Send GOP To White House (TechCrunch)

July

2015-07-31: Boston’s WTF/LOL Problem (TechCrunch)
2015-07-27: Some Reflections On Teaching (Homepage)
2015-07-26: What I'm Working On (July 2015) (Homepage)
2015-07-26: Yes Your ******* Startup Can Cut A Little Free Speech (TechCrunch)
2015-07-25: Startups And The Big Lie (TechCrunch)
2015-07-21: Make School Wants To Build The Product University For The Masses (TechCrunch)
2015-07-16: The Future Of Samsung Could Rest On A Single Vote Tomorrow (TechCrunch)
2015-07-15: Republicans and Democrats Face 2016 Challenge With On-Demand Economy (TechCrunch)
2015-07-13: The Fall and Software Rebirth of Middlemen (TechCrunch)
2015-07-13: A Quick Comment on Urban Planning (Homepage)
2015-07-11: The Challenges of Teaching When Silicon Valley Doesn’t Care (TechCrunch)

June

2015-06-29: Ranking The World (Homepage)
2015-06-28: Approaching Policy After Uber’s Scorched Earth (TechCrunch)
2015-06-27: Searching For The Next Wave Of Education Innovation (TechCrunch)
2015-06-27: The Millennial Delusion (TechCrunch)
2015-06-21: The Fundamental Fallacy of Modern Recruiting (TechCrunch)
2015-06-20: Vote Machine Learning For President! (TechCrunch)
2015-06-19: Discussion: Lauren Rivera's Pedigree on Elite Students and Elite Jobs (Homepage)
2015-06-15: What I'm Working On (June 2015) (Homepage)
2015-06-07: Adblocking And The End Of Big Advertising (TechCrunch)
2015-06-06: The Death And Life Of Truth In The Internet Age (TechCrunch)
2015-06-05: Haiti and the Importance of Area Studies in Development (Homepage)
2015-06-03: When Seconds Count, RapidSOS Will Be Ready When 911 Isn’t (TechCrunch)
2015-06-02: Why Public Policy Professionals So Often Have The Wrong Answers (Homepage)

May

2015-05-31: How Should We Learn? (TechCrunch)
2015-05-30: Millennials Are Destroying Banks, And It’s The Banks’ Fault (TechCrunch)
2015-05-30: The Obsession With Silicon Everywhere (TechCrunch)
2015-05-24: Lockstep Salaries Are Making A Comeback (TechCrunch)
2015-05-23: Algocracy (TechCrunch)
2015-05-22: Tips are wrong and should be banned (Homepage)
2015-05-19: In Ambitious Security Play, Skyport Launches The Next Generation of Secure Infrastructure (TechCrunch)
2015-05-19: Should America Move To A Test-Based College Admissions System? (Homepage)
2015-05-17: Foreign Languages Are Boring To Learn, So How Do We Make It Easier? (Homepage)
2015-05-17: Why Is The University Still Here? (TechCrunch)
2015-05-16: A Mission Of Excellence (TechCrunch)
2015-05-04: Fear Not the Robot (National Review)

April

2015-04-30: The Secret About Rich Founders And Ferraris (TechCrunch)
2015-04-26: You Need To Be A Billion Just To Make A Million (TechCrunch)
2015-04-21: With Water Running Out, Freight Farms Launches 2015 Farm-In-A-Box (TechCrunch)
2015-04-18: Oh, The Places You Will Go With Hackers (TechCrunch)
2015-04-16: With Judge Analytics, Ravel Law Starts To Judge The Judges (TechCrunch)
2015-04-12: The Valley Of The Sith Lords (TechCrunch)
2015-04-11: Yahoo Answers Is Not Research, Or How Two Startups Are Fighting For The Future Of Knowledge (TechCrunch)
2015-04-05: Flappy Bird, The Problem With Everyone, And My Baptism By Chauffeured Bus (TechCrunch)
2015-04-01: The World Bank's Greatest Future Threat (Homepage)

March

2015-03-31: When April Fools’ Day Gets More Love Than Good Policy (TechCrunch)
2015-03-29: The Most Powerful Force In The Universe (TechCrunch)
2015-03-26: BetterCloud Raises $25 Million From Accel To Create Universal Tools For Monitoring The Office Cloud (TechCrunch)
2015-03-23: Why Don’t Makers Have Higher Social Status? (TechCrunch)
2015-03-19: How To Play VC Poker With Billions In The Pot (TechCrunch)
2015-03-15: On Secretly Terrible (Old) Engineers (TechCrunch)
2015-03-09: After 3 Years And $64M In Seed Funding, Onshape Launches The Mother Of All Products (TechCrunch)
2015-03-08: On Secretly Terrible Engineers (TechCrunch)
2015-03-03: BriefMe Launches Socially-Ranked News App In Latest Entrant In Front Page Revolution (TechCrunch)

February

2015-02-26: It’s Well Past Time VCs Hired HR Directors (TechCrunch)
2015-02-19: Armed With $2M, Fedora Hopes To Create The Next Million Dollar Teachers (TechCrunch)
2015-02-15: How 51 Shades Of Licensing Is Killing Our Economy (TechCrunch)
2015-02-10: Harvard Innovation Challenge Winner Quorum Hopes To Replace Gaggles Of Interns In DC With Data-Driven Policy (TechCrunch)
2015-02-09: Hillary Clinton, Brian Williams, and the Issue of Military Trust (Homepage)
2015-02-08: Startups, A Rich Man’s Game (TechCrunch)
2015-02-04: The Time-Card App (National Review)
2015-02-04: MIT Alums Launch Beansprock, An AI-Based Job Platform For Finding Your Best Employer (TechCrunch)

January

2015-01-31: Silicon Valley Reinvents The Invisible Hand (TechCrunch)
2015-01-27: With Mimo, MIT Alums Are Disrupting The Baby Nursery, Onesie At A Time (TechCrunch)
2015-01-27: No, Algorithms Don't Devalue Humans (Homepage)
2015-01-23: Does Cable News Even Matter Anymore? (Homepage)
2015-01-20: Why We Should be Concerned About Fact-Checking Websites (Homepage)
2015-01-18: Rebuilding VC, And Saving Boston Too (TechCrunch)
2015-01-17: How Yello Mobile Ate 61 Startups In One Year (TechCrunch)
2015-01-16: The Hypocrisy of U.S. Cyber Policy (TechCrunch)
2015-01-16: Three Short Thoughts on Doing a PhD (Homepage)
2015-01-15: Does a President's Background Even Matter? (Homepage)
2015-01-14: The New Dynasty Politics of the United States (Homepage)

2014

December

2014-12-31: 2015 Is Shaping Up To Be The Key Year For Venture Capital (TechCrunch)
2014-12-31: Fighting Distractions Should Be Top Resolution For 2015 (TechCrunch)
2014-12-30: Actually, Our Greatest Hopes Lie With Techies (TechCrunch)
2014-12-29: From Internet To Internets (TechCrunch)
2014-12-28: How Many Millions Should I Take From My Startup? (TechCrunch)
2014-12-27: On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCs (TechCrunch)
2014-12-26: What 2014 Tech Products Made The Mom Cut? (TechCrunch)
2014-12-24: Following Charges, Uber Confronts Its Asian Dilemma (TechCrunch)
2014-12-23: The Tech Stocks You Shouldn’t Have Owned This Year (TechCrunch)
2014-12-22: Influencer Marketing Is Killing Santa (TechCrunch)
2014-12-21: In War With Publishers, Tech Companies Take Wrong Approach (TechCrunch)
2014-12-19: After Sony, Every Startup Should Prepare For War (TechCrunch)

November

2014-11-30: The Algorithm Economy Heads To Amazon (TechCrunch)
2014-11-23: SF Has An S&M Problem (TechCrunch)
2014-11-16: Meet Your New Boss, Mr. Algorithm (TechCrunch)
2014-11-09: The MBAs Are Fleeing, Should SF Be Worried? (TechCrunch)
2014-11-02: Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis (TechCrunch)

October

2014-10-18: Are American Tech Companies Disloyal? (TechCrunch)
2014-10-10: The Year Of The Corporate Divorce (TechCrunch)
2014-10-04: As The Valley Burns Up, Boston Readies Its Next Act (TechCrunch)

September

2014-09-26: What $1 Million Won’t Buy You (TechCrunch)
2014-09-18: Depression, Suicide, and the Future of Mental Health (Homepage)
2014-09-18: The Best Of Times … (TechCrunch)
2014-09-14: Putting Smartphone Zombies In Their Place (TechCrunch)
2014-09-05: It’s Time For VCs To Run To Their Bubble Bunkers (TechCrunch)

August

2014-08-31: This Labor Day, Reflect On Diversity And The Future (TechCrunch)
2014-08-26: As Samsung Falters, An Opening For Startups (TechCrunch)
2014-08-25: Corporate Accelerators Are An Oxymoron (TechCrunch)
2014-08-22: Will Developer Tools Startups Ever Find Investors? (TechCrunch)
2014-08-21: Should Workers Own the Algorithms? (Homepage)
2014-08-17: Algorithms Are Replacing Unions As The Champions of Workers (TechCrunch)
2014-08-10: The Logic Of Crazy Valuations (TechCrunch)
2014-08-08: Stellar, Uber, And The Rise Of Computational Trust (TechCrunch)
2014-08-06: New Study Shows The Decline Of Startups And America’s Geriatric Economy (TechCrunch)

July

2014-07-28: With Apple’s Novel Acquisition, A Chance To Reinvent The Book (TechCrunch)
2014-07-27: How Can We Make Recruiting Better? (TechCrunch)
2014-07-20: The Problem With Founders (TechCrunch)
2014-07-17: Amazon Isn’t Killing Writing, The Market Is (TechCrunch)
2014-07-14: In cutting foreign exchanges, Obama Administration demonstrates short-term thinking (Homepage)
2014-07-13: Silicon Valley’s Dilemma Over Credentials (TechCrunch)
2014-07-10: Our Polyglot Nightmare (TechCrunch)
2014-07-01: With Political Failures Left And Right, Tech Needs To Rethink Its Strategy (TechCrunch)

June

2014-06-30: With Software Eating Hardware, Silicon Valley Enters “Hard” Times (TechCrunch)
2014-06-26: Going Native (TechCrunch)
2014-06-26: The Challenge of Korea's Narrow Political Culture (Homepage)
2014-06-24: With Google Domains, Let’s Raise Prices And Make SSL Certificates Free (TechCrunch)
2014-06-21: Three Realities About Venture Capital (TechCrunch)
2014-06-19: Yo, Virginia, There Is A Cult Of Disruption (TechCrunch)
2014-06-16: As Teacher Tenure Degrades, New Opportunities Emerge For Startups To Remake Education (TechCrunch)
2014-06-06: Productivity And The Education Delusion (TechCrunch)
2014-06-05: It’s The Security, Stupid! (TechCrunch)

May

2014-05-31: As Software Eats Up Jobs, Startups Need To Consider Ethics Of Marketplaces (TechCrunch)
2014-05-26: Messaging 2.0 Is Now Over (TechCrunch)
2014-05-22: The Era Of Good-Enough Smartphones (TechCrunch)
2014-05-16: As Samsung’s Chairman Remains Hospitalized, South Korea Prepares For Its Next Act (TechCrunch)
2014-05-12: The New Dynamics Of Unicorn Startup Acquisitions (TechCrunch)
2014-05-09: As Mobile Roars Ahead, It’s Time To Finally Admit The Web Is Dying (TechCrunch)
2014-05-07: Alibaba Is Not A Threat To US Internet Companies (TechCrunch)
2014-05-02: With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products (TechCrunch)

April

2014-04-30: Finishing Its Third Batch, Korea’s KStartup Accelerator Sees Great Hope For Seoul’s Tech Ecosystem (TechCrunch)
2014-04-29: Microsoft Is Technology’s Comeback Kid (TechCrunch)
2014-04-25: A Personal Reflection On Google+ (TechCrunch)
2014-04-22: The New Wave of Global Journalism (Key Platform 2014 Presentation) (Homepage)
2014-04-22: Star Trek And The Politics Of Silicon Valley (TechCrunch)
2014-04-21: Silicon Valley Is The Stingiest Place For Equity Grants, But Remote Work Pays Off If You Can Find It (TechCrunch)
2014-04-11: Why Stock Prices Are So Important For Startups (TechCrunch)
2014-04-09: What no one asks about college admissions data (Homepage)
2014-04-08: Do Startups Stand A Chance Against Valley Incumbents? (TechCrunch)
2014-04-07: Spitfire’s In-Depth Fitness Regimens Target Women Ready To Push Their Limits (TechCrunch)

March

2014-03-25: Creating Billion-Dollar IPOs And Deleting ActiveX: The Elixir Making Korea The Key Startup Ecosystem In Asia (TechCrunch)
2014-03-24: Journalism Is Not Content Production (TechCrunch)
2014-03-20: Website Owners, Stop Controlling my Copy and Paste (Homepage)
2014-03-19: The Startup Life (Korea University 2014 Lecture) (Homepage)
2014-03-15: In A Changing Financial World, Thinknum Wants To Democratize Financial Analysis (TechCrunch)
2014-03-13: This Funding Will Disappear In 10 Seconds (TechCrunch)
2014-03-10: Searching For The Silicon Valley Selfie (TechCrunch)
2014-03-07: Startup Toolkit (Born2Global 2014 Lecture) (Homepage)
2014-03-06: Flare-Up Over Food-Delivery Fees Has South Koreans Debating The Marketplace Model (TechCrunch)
2014-03-03: From Crowdfunding To Open Access, Startups Are Experimenting With Academic Research (TechCrunch)

February

2014-02-28: With Mt.Gox In Flames, A Lesson: When Building A Company, First Do No Harm (TechCrunch)
2014-02-24: Approaching The Frontier: How One Entrepreneur Is Building The Future In Myanmar (TechCrunch)
2014-02-20: Business As Usual In The New Silicon Valley (TechCrunch)
2014-02-17: A Networking Protocol For Labor (TechCrunch)
2014-02-15: With Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Coming Transformation Of The Computer Scientist (TechCrunch)
2014-02-08: Book Review: In “Different,” Finding Better Ways To Build Brands In A Noisy (And Boring) World (TechCrunch)
2014-02-07: Let’s Just Forget Everything (TechCrunch)
2014-02-01: Two Posts on TechCrunch (Homepage)

January

2014-01-31: The Complete Quantitative Guide To Judging Your Startup (TechCrunch)
2014-01-28: Silicon Valley Is Now Public Enemy No. 1, And We Only Have Ourselves To Blame (TechCrunch)
2014-01-23: How far can Bitcoin take us? (Homepage)
2014-01-22: Korean Human Jaw Plastic Surgery Sculpture a Thing of Unusual Wonder (Homepage)
2014-01-20: What you can't show in a South Korean movie poster (Homepage)

2013

September

2013-09-27: Why elitism still matters in crowdfunding (Homepage)
2013-09-24: Blind Spots: The Most Underinvested Areas of Venture (Homepage)
2013-09-22: Disappearing Ladders (Homepage)

May

2013-05-15: Should you have Institutional VCs in your Seed Round? (Homepage)
2013-05-14: Why the Possible Waze Exit is So Important to Israel's Ecosystem (Homepage)

April

2013-04-22: Why we need data rights (Homepage)
2013-04-20: Hiatus Over (Homepage)

January

2013-01-31: Brief Blogging Hiatus (Homepage)

2012

December

2012-12-01: The More Negative View of Korea's Growth (Korean) (Homepage)

November

2012-11-25: The decline of the BRICs, but the rise of Korea? (Homepage)
2012-11-23: Book Forum - The Syrian Rebellion by Fouad Ajami (Homepage)
2012-11-22: Update on Korean Studies (Homepage)
2012-11-22: Awesome Map of Seoul's Start-up Scene (Homepage)
2012-11-12: The More Negative View of Korea's Growth (Homepage)
2012-11-11: The decline of the BRICs, but the rise of Korea? (Homepage)
2012-11-10: Election Wrap-up - The Supreme Irony of Mitt Romney (Homepage)
2012-11-10: Update on Korean Studies (Homepage)

October

2012-10-28: Awesome Map of Seoul's Start-up Scene (Homepage)
2012-10-24: Government Regulation and Outrage (Homepage)
2012-10-15: Book Notes - Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser (Homepage)
2012-10-15: The Competitive Pressure of Labor Economics (Homepage)
2012-10-04: Japan's Becoming More Entrepreneurial? (Homepage)
2012-10-03: Why Consultants Need to Get the Hell Out of College (Homepage)
2012-10-03: Japan's Becoming More Entrepreneurial? (Homepage)
2012-10-03: AniPang (애니팡) Spreading as Fast as Animals Pop (Homepage)
2012-10-03: The Competitive Pressure of Labor Economics (Homepage)
2012-10-02: AniPang (애니팡) Spreading as Fast as Animals Pop (Homepage)

September

2012-09-16: LTE iPhone for Korea? (Homepage)
2012-09-09: LTE iPhone for Korea? (Homepage)
2012-09-09: Crowdsourced Funding Assists Eat Your Kimchi Writers (Homepage)
2012-09-08: The Three Most Important Words in Silicon Valley (Homepage)
2012-09-08: Pedestrian Boulevards, or Why I Love Santa Monica! (Homepage)
2012-09-05: Economic Changes in North Korea? (Homepage)
2012-09-04: Protectionism - Every Country Does It (Homepage)

August

2012-08-31: Are Entrepreneurship and Test Scores Inversely Related? (Homepage)
2012-08-27: Coding impact - are we losing software engineers? (Homepage)
2012-08-27: Yes, Samsung Errored in its Fast-Follow Strategy (Homepage)
2012-08-26: An Increase in Innovation at Samsung? (Homepage)
2012-08-26: The Importance of Intellectual Diversity in Academic Disciplines (Homepage)
2012-08-26: The top 10 best quotes from Morozov's book review (Homepage)
2012-08-22: The Problem with Multiple Realities (Homepage)

July

2012-07-30: Site Update - New Mobile Theme (Homepage)
2012-07-27: The Economic Calculus of Education (Homepage)
2012-07-27: Managing the Bad Tech Narrative - The Case of Google (Homepage)
2012-07-09: What Makes Entrepreneurship Attractive? (Homepage)

June

2012-06-29: Site Update -- Back in the United States (Homepage)
2012-06-29: Finally, Someone Starts Talking About the Developmental State (Homepage)
2012-06-18: Why Yammer should have been Google+'s strategy (Homepage)
2012-06-13: The Fundamental Dilemma of Start-ups Today (Homepage)
2012-06-12: Thoughts on Migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll (Homepage)

May

2012-05-31: Innovation Hubs and Engineering Education in Korea (Homepage)
2012-05-21: Growing Korea's Innovation Garden (KAIST Lecture 2012) (Homepage)

April

2012-04-20: Steve Jobs, South Korea and the Search for Innovation (Fulbright Forum 2012 Lecture) (Homepage)

March

2012-03-11: NYT Teardown: The Go-Nowhere Generation (Homepage)
2012-03-09: Snobs, Contraception, Denialism and the Presidential Race (Homepage)
2012-03-08: Image of the Week: Japanese, Volcanoes, and Tangerines (Jeju Part 3/3) (Homepage)
2012-03-07: Why I am afraid to donate to The Stanford Fund (Homepage)

February

2012-02-16: Image of the Week: Jeju Island Rocks! (Jeju Part 2/3) (Homepage)
2012-02-10: Image of the Week: Lava Caves and Waterfalls (Jeju Part 1/3) (Homepage)

January

2012-01-27: Image of the Week: Traditional Family Lunar New Year Celebration (Homepage)
2012-01-18: Why Vinod Khosla is Wrong on Gamification of Education (Homepage)
2012-01-16: The Danger of Models of Development (or, how culture really matters) (Homepage)
2012-01-10: Image of the Week: Korean Hanbok Market and Random Snow (Homepage)
2012-01-01: Image of the Week: Suwon and Hwaseong Fortress (Homepage)

2011

December

2011-12-10: Android versus iOS: The Power of Culture and Tools (Homepage)
2011-12-07: The End of Democracy? [2] (Homepage)

November

2011-11-27: Image of the Week: US-Korea Free Trade Protests (Homepage)
2011-11-06: Image of the Week: Incredible Photos from the Seoul Lantern Festival (Homepage)

October

2011-10-26: What scares me about Mitt Romney (Homepage)
2011-10-25: Image of the Week: Stanford's Influence in Korea (Homepage)
2011-10-11: Why Stanford students should work on Wall St. (Homepage)
2011-10-10: Image of the Week: The Multifunctional Administrative City (Homepage)
2011-10-09: Steve Jobs, America and the Future (Homepage)
2011-10-06: Image of the Week: Finding the Lost Arc in the Strangest Korean Ghost City (Homepage)

September

2011-09-28: The End of Democracy? (Homepage)
2011-09-26: Image of the Week: Urban Development and The World Without Us (Homepage)
2011-09-19: Image of the Week: Kick It! (Homepage)
2011-09-09: Image of the Week: Innovation in Transportation (Homepage)
2011-09-03: How to Major in the Humanities (Homepage)
2011-09-02: How much sympathy for unemployed graduates? (Homepage)

August

2011-08-30: Why America Needs an Industrial Policy (Homepage)
2011-08-30: Image of the Week: Modernity in South Korea (Homepage)
2011-08-27: How Software is Destroying Society (Homepage)

July

2011-07-12: Wow - Defense Budget Must be Getting Really Bad (Homepage)
2011-07-12: Some Thoughts for the Week of July 11 (Homepage)
2011-07-09: Will America continue to have a public education system? (Homepage)
2011-07-03: Will Osama bin Laden win the Global War on Terror? (Homepage)

June

2011-06-28: It's about Quality - not Quantity (and damn that's hard) (Homepage)
2011-06-17: Will the Internet as we know it exist in 10 years? (Homepage)
2011-06-16: Short: Congressional Gym Debacle - Let's Keep It (Homepage)
2011-06-09: I'd Vote for Huntsman (But he is never going to make it) (Homepage)
2011-06-09: Why wage-data transparency is a bad idea (Homepage)

May

2011-05-17: Thesis Done (Homepage)

April

2011-04-26: Nature's Special on the PhD: Are we in a bubble? (Homepage)
2011-04-16: Decline of Transfer Admissions at Stanford (Homepage)

March

2011-03-23: Transfer Admits to Stanford (Homepage)
2011-03-02: Quoted in National Academies Report (Homepage)

February

2011-02-20: Stanford Plays Catch-Up on Satellite Campuses (Homepage)
2011-02-15: Where I've Been: Five Take-Aways on the Humanities at Stanford (Homepage)
2011-02-01: Intensely Lonely World of Stanford Students (Homepage)

January

2011-01-30: What approach to take with senior gift campaigns? (Homepage)
2011-01-22: The Cause of America's Decline (Homepage)
2011-01-19: New Article: Fraying at the Edges (Homepage)

2010

December

2010-12-15: Thoughts on ROTC, Stanford, and the 'Two Cultures' (Homepage)
2010-12-14: Reductionism and the Future of Humanities (Homepage)

November

2010-11-22: Post on ROTC Added to Fiat Lux (Homepage)
2010-11-11: Short Post: Why should you do CS? (Homepage)
2010-11-10: One Week after the Midterm, Three Reflections (Homepage)

October

2010-10-17: Preparing for America's Long Decline (Homepage)
2010-10-15: Shameless Self Promotion: Oman Democracy Works (Homepage)

September

2010-09-26: The Road to Stanford Part 2 of 5: The Value of High School Newspapers (Homepage)
2010-09-26: In Response to China, a Doctrine of Quiet Resilience (Homepage)
2010-09-15: The Road to Stanford Part 1 of 5: Experiencing Computers (Homepage)

August

2010-08-27: Guest Blogger: When Does it Make Sense to Learn a Foreign Language? (Homepage)
2010-08-26: Debating the merits of a legal education (Homepage)
2010-08-12: Short Post: Student Load Debt Higher than Consumer Debt (Homepage)
2010-08-12: A Tale of Two Speeches (Homepage)

July

2010-07-31: Please stop it, Professor Hacker! My critique of an Atlantic interview (Homepage)
2010-07-28: The Dangerous Folly of Regional Technology Centers (Homepage)
2010-07-16: Updated: Revitalizing the American Dream (Homepage)
2010-07-12: Why America needs a new Africa strategy (Homepage)

May

2010-05-24: Rebuilding Political Consensus - and America too (Homepage)
2010-05-18: Drinking Games, Cups, Menus and Housing (Homepage)
2010-05-15: Should No Child Left Behind extend to universities? (Homepage)
2010-05-05: Are students consumers of education? (Homepage)

April

2010-04-28: Why are such happy students so unhappy? (Homepage)
2010-04-21: Hopes and Dreams in a Stanford Education (Homepage)
2010-04-14: The Long Battle to Defend Education (Homepage)

March

2010-03-31: Pondering the nature of community (Homepage)
2010-03-04: Benefits of Grading? (Homepage)

February

2010-02-24: Finding Skepticism in Analysis (Homepage)
2010-02-11: Learning to Think and Learning to Do (Homepage)
2010-02-03: The Busyness Epidemic (Homepage)

January

2010-01-18: American Exit Exams, How Low Can You Go? (Homepage)
2010-01-10: Living Life in the Rearview Mirror (Homepage)
2010-01-04: Ten Predictions For the Awkward Teens (Homepage)

2009

November

2009-11-16: Why I Left Science (Homepage)
2009-11-09: Why a Male Community Center is not so outlandish (Homepage)
2009-11-02: Does Stanford Provide a Public Good? (Homepage)

October

2009-10-26: Do Stanford Students have Time to Think? (Homepage)
2009-10-19: For grad school, run away from the PhD (Homepage)
2009-10-12: The depressing truth of elite students (Homepage)
2009-10-05: Liberal pessimism in record time (Homepage)

September

2009-09-28: On open access, Stanford's leadership falters (Homepage)
2009-09-21: The Year of Renewal (Homepage)

August

2009-08-17: Disinformation in a digital world (Homepage)
2009-08-05: Living in a Captain's Height world (Homepage)

July

2009-07-21: Palo Alto Pedestrian Zone worth a look (Homepage)
2009-07-06: Synthesizers will win the battle for academia (Homepage)

May

2009-05-19: Putting the Public in Public Health (Homepage)

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