nonfiction
business of
music
Inside Garageband, the little app ruling the sound of modern music (Rolling Stone, 2019)
Def Jam’s fierce gamble on the future of hip-hop (Rolling Stone, 2019)
America isn’t ready for Asian rappers. They’re taking over anyway (Rolling Stone, 2018)
The spectacular existential crisis of Pandora (Rolling Stone, 2018)
There was no song of the summer this year, and there won’t ever be again (Rolling Stone, 2018)
Rap's ascent is bringing a whole new money stream to music (Rolling Stone, 2018)
Guitars are getting more popular. So why do we think they're dying? (Rolling Stone, 2018)
"Fuck it, we'll take the bet": The gold rush to sign the next rap god (Rolling Stone, 2018)
Pop music has become obsessed with death (Quartz, 2018)
A definitive list of the musicians who influenced our lives most (Quartz, 2017)
The simple statistical analysis that explains the entire history of popular music (Quartz, 2017)
We no longer know who the biggest pop star in the world is (Quartz, 2017)
Put your lighters up for Pandora, the music service that briefly changed the world (Quartz, 2017)
iTunes is 13 years old—and it’s still awful (Quartz, 2016)
Music streaming has a nearly undetectable fraud problem (Quartz, 2016)
Why the sweaty, crowded summer festival became the last sacred space in music (Quartz, 2016)
The music industry is still finding ways to depress record store owners (Slate, 2015)
media
educatioN
How to get a world-class education for free on the internet (Quartz, 2018)
It’s the end of the university as we know it (Quartz, 2017)
The college lecture is dying. Good riddance. (Quartz, 2017)
College textbooks are going the way of Netflix (Quartz, 2017)
Microsoft buying LinkedIn could transform the way we’re taught, trained, and hired (Quartz, 2016)
It’s not just college students. Higher education itself is experiencing a mental health crisis (Quartz, 2016)
Colleges are spying on prospective students by quietly tracking them across the internet (Quartz, 2015)
Diversity in college admissions is a dangerous, zero-sum game (Yale Daily News, 2013)
other biz writing
We’re starting to see how frighteningly big WeWork’s ambitions really are (Quartz, 2018)
How the Pope is helping Airbnb (The Atlantic, 2015)
Philanthropy in America: the squeezed devout (The Economist, 2014)
Whole Foods Market, victim of success (The Economist, 2014)
BOOKS & CULTURE
I spent a week with 8,000 worshippers of the fake, fantastical cult of zumba (Quartz, 2017)
To read more books, organize your list by season (Quartz, 2017)
Hallyu, K-pop! Inside the weirdest, most lucrative global frenzy in music (Quartz, 2017)
Wonder (Slate, 2015)
LV, NY (These Fifty States, 2015)
fiction