2010 - present: TechCrunch columnist

Highlights:

• May 2018: The crypto alternative.
• May 2018: Personal privacy vs. public security: fight!.
• Nov 2017: In praise of Tesla's bankruptcy.
• Oct 2017: After the end of the startup era.
• Sep 2017: Technology, complexity, anxiety, catastrophe.
• Aug 2017: Seven things I have learned about writing software.
• Jun 2017: Facebook is broken.
• May 2017: Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new Internet.
• Jul 2016: Westphalexit.
• Mar 2016: This war on math is still bullshit.
• Jan 2016: Why Bitcoin Matters.
• Oct 2015: I Do Not Want Your Stupid App.
• Feb 2015: Beware The Pretty People.
• Jan 2015: This Industry Is Still Completely Ridiculous.
• Oct 2014: You Too May Be A Victim Of Developaralysis.
• Jun 2014: Dear Clients, Please Stop: Ten Ways Founders Sabotage Themselves.
• Mar 2014: Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out.
• Mar 2014: This Industry Is Completely Ridiculous. Let's Hope It Stays That Way.
• Jan 2014: Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow.
• Dec 2013: It's A Wonderful Life, For A Few Of Us.
• Jun 2013: After Your Job Is Gone.
• Aug 2011: Welcome To The Panopticon.
• Jun 2011: This Is Where The Magic Happens.
• May 2011: Why The New Guy Can't Code.

2005 - present: Magazine feature writer

Highlights:

• Ursula Le Guin Taught Me Everything I Knew Was Wrong. The Walrus, January 2018.
• Chatbot Fail. In which I am skeptical. The Walrus, April 2016.
• We're All Going To Be Rich. On Akoha, Austin Hill, and the world's forthcoming reputation economy. Reader's Digest, March 2010.
• Free Delivery: birth in the Americas' poorest country. The Walrus, May 2008.
• Apocalypse Soon: the future of reading. An analysis of the earthquake that will overturn today's publishing industry. The Walrus, September 2007. Selected for inclusion in the classic Canadian textbook The Act of Writing.
• In the Shadow of Doom. An article about a killer lake in Central Africa. Yes, I said "killer lake." Read it now or wait for the inevitable disaster movie. The Walrus, May 2006.
• Wiring the War Zone. In May 2005, I spent a week in Iraq researching two cipherpunks who travelled there after the war to reconnect the country to the Internet. Wired, May 2005. Later, Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth, a 4,000-word expansion of the Iraq piece, found a readership on Slashdot.

2009 - 2011: Columnist at Maisonneuve magazine

Highlights:

• What's wrong with Africa. The pros and cons of fatalism, and the cons of most aid and NGOs. Selected for inclusion in the seventh edition of the textbook Canadian Content.
• Can A Video Game Make You Cry? Speculation about the future of the world's newest storytelling medium, and a paean to Grand Theft Auto IV.

2008 - 2011: "World Fast Forward" at The Walrus

Highlights:

• Burning With Desire. Black Rock City: a testbed for the real world?
• How Google Unconquered The World. Call me a prophet, but I got this one right.
• One Laptop Per Child: What Went Wrong. Its fundamental problems are twofold: 1. It was a bad idea to begin with. 2. The XO laptop is a piece of crap.
• Big Brother Is Watching Them. OK? In which I reflect on having been mugged at gunpoint.
• Better Dying Through Chemistry. How to ruin entire nations and destroy untold millions of lives.

2009 - 2011: Tor.com contributor

Highlights:

• Fury, absurdity, sorcery: Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• Time Travel Times Two: Jack Finney's Time and Again
• Magic realism: not fantasy. Sorry.
• SF gems from the literary ghetto

2007 - 2009: Occasional blogger at The Guardian's books blog.

Highlights:

• The newly graphic novelist.

2004 - present: Occasional essayist

Highlights:

• Genocide in L.A. isn't really about genocide in L.A. Unpublished. October 2005.
• But Enough About Me, Let's Talk About What You Can Do For Me. Explains how not to write, and why NaNoWriMo is for suckers. Unpublished. October 2004.