Writings

A cursory glance at the topics below doesn’t suggest an obvious journalistic beat. But a closer inspection of these pieces reveals a common theme. They are full of engineers. From the mechanical and structural engineers in ​“Flash of Genius,’ ​“The Tower Builder,” and ​“Fragmentary Knowledge” to the software engineers in ​“Email from Bill” and ​“My First Flame,” to the pop star engineers in ​“The Song Machine” and ​“Factory Girls,” to the machine learning engineers in ​“Ancient Library” and ​“The Next Word,” I keep returning to brilliant, ambitious, and entrepreneurially inclined engineers in my work. ​“The Spinach King” not only continues this theme, it explains its origins – the men in my family.