Technology Stories

A selection of my published journalism work focused on technology and innovation.


My Phone Plan Nightmare: I Gave Up My Old Phone Number. Disaster Ensued
Business Insider, January 2025.

Pennsylvania And OpenAI Launch First-of-its-Kind Pilot to Test ChatGPT For State Government
PhillyVoice, January 2024.

‘Undignified Practice’ Of Tranq Tourism Puts Kensington’s Opioid Crisis In The Social Media Spotlight PhillyVoice, December 2024.

How Levi’s Uses AI To Accelerate Its Design Process VentureBeat, February 2022.

These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Co-Founder To Dodge Startup Sexism Fast Company, August 2017.

Instagram Is Using Human-AI Hybrids To Shape What You See Next Fast Company, November 2017.

Google Enlists Artists To Make Its AI Feel More Like A Friend Fast Company, May 2016.

How Facebook Uses UX Research To Personalize The Way We See Each Other Fast Company, April 2014.

How Instagram Learns From Your Likes To Keep You Hooked Fast Company, July 2017.

How Instagram Swelled To 500 Million Users While Others Struggled To Grow Fast Company, June 2016.

How Women Are Swiping The Weirdness Out Of Online Dating Fast Company, August 2016.

Can We Trust Dating Apps And Music Services To Police Hate Speech? Fast Company, August 2017.

Celebrate Windows 95 With These Delightfully Terrible Retro Videos Fast Company, August 2015.

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google’s Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor Fast Company, February 2014.

This Man Uses Twitter To Augment His Damaged Memory Fast Company, October 2014.

How To Get A Match, According To Tinder’s Sociologist Fast Company, August 2016.

Why Startups Should Let Developers Leapfrog To New Technologies Fast Company, September 2014.