technology

07 Feb 2020

Facebook is Even Tracking Your “Off-Facebook Activity”. Here’s How to Change That.

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18 Nov 2019

Are New Smart Devices Really Better Than Old Dumb Ones?

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26 Aug 2019

What the Hell is Blockchain, and Why Won’t Men Stop Telling Me About it?

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19 Aug 2019

How to Use Tech for Activism

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14 Jan 2019

Why I Miss Life Before Smartphones

This article originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the San Francisco Examiner. I lived above Caffe Pergolesi in Santa Cruz for a couple years in college. Pergs, as we called it, was housed in an 1886 Victorian that had a wrap-around porch, where people would sit around all

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26 Nov 2018

Note to Tech Industry: Try Asking “Should We do This?”

This article originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the the San Francisco Examiner A few weeks ago I ran into a friend who works at one of the companies creating driverless cars. “Oh man,” he told me, “this whole thing is happening way sooner than anyone thinks. Two

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03 Dec 2012

How to Survive Without a Phone

There was a time when things got hard. In the span of 3 months, I dropped my phone in the toilet at a Thai restaurant, brought it back to life with a bowl of rice, quit my job… and soon after had my phone shut off. Apparently I didn’t pay

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