Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?

For the New York Times Opinion podcast Sway, I produced this conversation between Kara Swisher and Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber. During the pandemic, Uber’s ride-hailing revenue sagged. But Uber Eats, its restaurant delivery service, soared. What does he say to restaurant owners who claim Uber’s fees are ruining their business? You can listen… Continue reading Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?

Escaping the Las Vegas Shooting

For Vice News, I produced an episode of the podcast Source Material, non-narrated stories based on recordings made by ordinary people who live through extraordinary events. I interviewed Cory Langdon, who was driving a taxi on the night of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. You can listen to her story on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any… Continue reading Escaping the Las Vegas Shooting

Math Lessons from Pennsylvania

For the New York Times Opinion podcast Sway, I produced this interview between host Kara Swisher and John Fetterman, the Twitter-famous Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. After Election Day, Fetterman started saying out loud what a lot of Democratic politicians were thinking: that Trump’s attempts to stave off defeat added up to a battle against math… Continue reading Math Lessons from Pennsylvania

American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are so familiar they’ve become part of our cultural wallpaper. A raven croaking “nevermore?” An enemy bricked up in a cellar? A heart beating under the floorboards? These images are the stuff of our collective nightmares, but Poe dreamed them all up first. For Studio 360’s American Icons series, I produced… Continue reading American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

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How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

In the U.S. alone, we hold 55 million meetings a day. Most of them are woefully unproductive, and tyrannize our offices. For Freakonomics Radio, I produced this episode about practical ways to improve meetings — with better agendas, smaller invite lists, and an embrace of healthy conflict, with advice from Steven Rogelberg (The Surprising Science… Continue reading How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

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How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek gave a rare interview to Freakonomics Radio for an episode I produced. We tell the story of how Ek (who grew up in Sweden listening to pirated music) managed to sell the record labels on his plan to make online listening legit. And, remarkably, it has worked: after years… Continue reading How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

Low Fidelity

Journalist Bella Bathurst describes how she lost her hearing while conducting interviews with the last generation of Scottish lighthouse keepers and then how it felt, twelve years later, to regain it. For this episode of The Organist, I edited, sound designed, mixed, and scored this interview between Bathurst and journalist Jason Boog.  (Starts at 8:30)

How to Be Creative

Creativity has become a buzzword, universally desirable but uniformly misunderstood. What is it, really? Is there a definition large enough to capture all the various activities that fall under its umbrella? And what can social scientists tell us about where it comes from and (more importantly) how to get more of it? I’m producing an… Continue reading How to Be Creative