Highlighted Writing Samples

• Is This App the Future of AI Workouts for Outside Magazine. An examination of how fitness tracking companies are leveraging machine learning to optimize training and make cyclists faster.

• A Dilemma For California Legislators: Preserve Public Beaches Or Protect Coastal Homes for Forbes. A piece about climate change, the problems with seawalls, and pioneering legislation in California designed to entice coastal property owners to give up their land.

• The Unlikely Preacher of Action Sports for Outside Magazine. The story of Selema Masekela, the black man who became the voice of the overwhelmingly white action sports industry. Told from a tropical surf paradise in the wake of his legendary father’s death.

• A Cultural History of Noobs for The Atlantic. A lexicographical dive into how we treat outsiders, newcomers, and each other.

• The Gravekeeper’s Paradox for Nautilus Magazine. Partly a piece about time, memory, stone, and chemistry; partly a profile of David Gallagher, the man tasked with preserving historic Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA.

• Should We Bring Back Extinct Species from the Dead? for Science Magazine. When animals go extinct we lose a piece of the ecosystem, but could we bring them back? And should we?

• Many more writing samples here.

• I’ve done a LOT of work for Science Magazine and Eos.org.