Writings
“The Timekeeper of Ukraine” | The Atlantic
A small collection of labs create the world’s time. What happens when one operates in a war zone?
“The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time” | The New Yorker
An obscure computer scientist built the system that synchronizes computer clocks—and left a power struggle in his wake.
“The Virus and the Dementia Unit” | New York
When Covid-19 arrived, many nursing homes had to care for residents who could not remember life-saving instructions.
“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
Interviews
Sean Penn
On skepticism and the #MeToo movement
Yuval Noah Harari
On the futures of identity, religion, and being useless
Naoki Higashida
On living with nonverbal autism
Barbara Blatchley
On how to get luckier
Tony Kanaan
On the lessons learned from a life of misfortune