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Most years since we’ve lived in Brooklyn, my partner and I have ventured out on a cold late Fall morning to take part in the familiar Gotham ritual of cheering on the runners in the New York City Marathon.
It’s always a good crowd and a great scene. People turning out to cheer on perfect strangers who are doing something hard. Really hard. The kind of hard that takes training and focus and heroically sustained effort....

Normally, I wouldn’t feel compelled to pile on to what other’s have rightly called “a culture war on wheels.”
But this story from The Washington Post is reporting that I’ve expected to see for awhile. It lays out how design decisions baked into Tesla’s Cybertruck may actively hamper rescues from otherwise survivable crashes....

Every December, the good folks at Nieman Journalism Lab ask people in news and media for their predictions about the coming year. What follows is a lightly edited version of my contribution to this year’s round-up.
Predicting the future of journalism with any precision can be a fool’s errand, though the broad—and mostly bleak—contours are obvious enough: local news will still face collapse; public trust will continue to buckle under the twin pressures of social...

Mozilla quietly announced that it’s calling it quits on Pocket, the time-shifted reading app it acquired in 2017. The news didn’t make a big splash, but it caught my eye as it overlaps with a bit of my own professional history.
Years ago, I was an advisor to Readability, a pioneer in the read-it-later app space—Apple used the open source version of their code to build Safari’s Reader view—and I remember thinking, even back then, that Pocket’s earlier incarnation might become...