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Dear ________________, I am writing to you because I consider you as a fairly good grocery shopper. I am worried about my subconscious. When I arrived home, I noticed a slew of healthy products, like kale, beets, avocados, cucumbers, tomatoes and almond milk. However, I also found ice cream and a

On the Effects of Pizza Fetishism

Over the past year, I began to fetishize pizza. After the better part of a decade of leading a gluten-free lifestyle due to my celiac, I had finally found numerous pizza shops in my neighborhood with gluten-free offerings. I had the artisan pizza shop I brought friends to, the pizza

On Bullets and Prayers

Five years today, on the thirteenth anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s murder by a right-wing extremist and day of the 2008 US elections, I wrote an overly optimistic blog post that is thankfully no longer online. I had hoped that those elections would repair a divided America,

Should McDonald’s fire everyone?

McDonald’s is symbolic of American industry, with a massive $95 billion market capitalisation, and could effect real change if it so chose. From its beginnings, McDonald’s embraced heightened efficiency in its kitchen, employing a Henry Ford-inspired assembly line for hamburgers. The early McDonald’s kitchen was largely mechanised

Wearable Vanity

Everything is vain! – Ecclesiastes 1:2 I suppose it began in the netsuke exhibition at the LACMA that morning. It was a normal Saturday that began with a rooftop brunch with a friend and a trip to the museum where we share a membership. The Japanese Pavillion at the Los

On Forgettable Dinner Parties

On the scale of historic dinner parties, the Last Supper with Jesus and Rabbi Akiba’s Passover Seder in Bene Brak rank quite high. Jack Dorsey’s dinner at Zuni Cafe in San Francisco with three friends does not. But that did not stop Alyson Shontell from writing a sickeningly

Was Michael Jackson a Patent Troll? Probably not.

Innovation is a beautiful thing and its benefactors are constantly the subject of an ad-hominem attack. It has become increasingly common among individuals in the tech startup ecosystem to demonise Patent Assertion Entities (PAE), referring to them as unsavoury “Patent Trolls” behind their backs and “Voldemort” to their faces. The

Healthcare Redux

“In truth, no private company would have been capable of developing a project like the Internet, which required years of R&D efforts spread out over scores of far-flung agencies, and which began to take off only after decades of investment. Visionary infrastructure projects such as this are part

Anatomy of a Scandal

The scandal of the week in the tech media industry is, of course, the Wall Street Journal’s intrepid reporting of Orbitz’s seemingly insidious practice of showing higher price hotels to owners of Apple products. The Atlantic’s Megan Garber called it a ‘scoop’ and defended the “discriminatory” practice.

Why Amateurs Won't Solve Healthcare

Innovation in healthcare technology is best left to the professionals.