Writings

“The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time” | The New Yorker

The obscure computer scientist who built the system that shaped how computer clocks are synchronized—and the power struggle now growing in his wake

“The Virus and the Dementia Unit” | New York

Caring for nursing home residents who could not remember instructions, once Covid-19 arrived

“The Origins of Video-Chat Voice” | The New Yorker

How the Internet impersonates you in real time

“Why Can’t We Hold Each Other?” | GQ

The costs of American straight men’s allergy to platonic, prolonged physical contact with one another

“All Our Senior Administration Officials” | Columbia Journalism Review

Searching for meaning in political reporting’s widely deployed, rarely defined phrase

“Blockbusters” | The Awl

An unexpected history

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Interviews

Sean Penn

On skepticism and the #MeToo movement

Naoki Higashida

On living with nonverbal autism

Yuval Noah Harari

On the futures of identity, religion, and being useless

Barbara Blatchley

On how to get luckier

Tony Kanaan

On the lessons learned from a life of misfortune