2012 Articles

Three Powerful Lessons I Learned When I Got Offline

Tony Schwartz · The Harvard Business Review · January 4, 2012

How to Manage Your Relationship With Your Phone

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · January 4, 2012

On the Rave Underground and Pre-Digital Discovery

Cheri Lucas Rowlands · Writing Through the Fog · January 8, 2012

To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

Oliver Segovia · The Harvard Business Review · January 13, 2012

The Rise of the New Groupthink

Susan Cain · The New York Times · January 13, 2012

Post-It Inspiration: Compiled Bits on Writing and Memoir

Cheri Lucas Rowlands · Writing Through the Fog · January 14, 2012

How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher · The New York Times · January 21, 2012

GPS, Smartphones, and the Dumbing Down of Personal Navigation

Sarah Goodyear · The Atlantic Cities · January 24, 2012

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

Charles Duhigg and David Barboza · The New York Times · January 25, 2012

What Google’s Larry Page Doesn’t Understand

Maxwell Wessel · The Harvard Business Review · January 27, 2012

Create a Meaningful Life Through Meaningful Work

Umair Haque · The Harvard Business Review · January 30, 2012

The Difference Between Online Knowledge and Truly Open Knowledge

C.W. Anderson · The Atlantic · February 3, 2012

If Not Orwell, Then Huxley: The Battle for Control of the Internet

Rebecca MacKinnon · The Atlantic · February 9, 2012

Africa’s Chance to Leapfrog the West

Bright B. Simons · The Harvard Business Review · February 10, 2012

We, the Web Kids

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · February 21, 2012

The False Novelty of Making Reading ‘Social’

Alan Jacobs · The Atlantic · February 21, 2012

Another Angle on L.A.

Aimee Bender · AFAR Magazine · February 24, 2012

Diversify Your Dreams

Daniel Gulati · The Harvard Business Review · February 28, 2012

Why Porter’s Model No Longer Works

Nilofer Merchant · The Harvard Business Review · February 29, 2012

How Leaders Lose Their Luck

Anthony Tjan · The Harvard Business Review · February 29, 2012

I’m Being Followed: How Google ”” and Other Companies ”” Are Tracking Me on the Web

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · February 29, 2012

Career Plans Are Dangerous

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer and Paul B. Brown · The Harvard Business Review · March 2, 2012

Neil deGrasse Tyson: How Space Exploration Can Make America Great Again

Chris Heller · The Atlantic · March 5, 2012

How Frictionless Sharing Could Undermine Your Legal Right to Privacy

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · March 9, 2012

How to Find the Perfect Job Applicant (or Look Like One)

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer and Paul B. Brown · The Harvard Business Review · March 14, 2012

I Didn’t Tell Facebook I’m Engaged, So Why Is It Asking About My Fiancé?

Sara Marie Watson · The Atlantic · March 14, 2012

Could a Machine Spare You Hours Spent in Spanish Class?

Rebecca J. Rosen · The Atlantic · March 15, 2012

Bring Back the Organization Man

Peter Cappelli · The Harvard Business Review · March 15, 2012

Digital Natives Are Slow to Pick Up Nonverbal Cues

John K. Mullen · The Harvard Business Review · March 16, 2012

What’s Missing From Universities’ Sustainability Push - Technology

Kaid Benfield · The Atlantic Cities · March 21, 2012

The Gettysburg Principles for Keeping Your Customers

David Weinberger · The Harvard Business Review · March 28, 2012

Weather Runs Hot and Cold, So Scientists Look to the Ice

Justin Gillis and Joanna M. Foster · The New York Times · March 28, 2012

Research Interests

Anne Marie Knott · April 1, 2012

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson · The Harvard Business Review · April 1, 2012

When Should You Quit Your Day Job?

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer and Paul B. Brown · The Harvard Business Review · April 5, 2012

The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes

Brent Schlender · Fast Company · April 17, 2012

The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · April 18, 2012

We Danced to Become Machines

Cheri Lucas Rowlands · The Society Pages · April 21, 2012

Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?

Steven Levy · Wired · April 24, 2012

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Stephen Marche · The Atlantic Magazine · May 1, 2012

If You’re Not Pissing Someone Off, You’re Probably Not Innovating

Philip Auerswald · The Harvard Business Review · May 4, 2012

The Top 10 Rookie Mistakes for Entrepreneurs

Jay Goltz · The NY Times Blogs: You’re the Boss · May 9, 2012

Can a Better Vibrator Inspire an Age of Great American Sex?

Andy Isaacson · The Atlantic · May 14, 2012

How Smart Phones Are Turning Our Public Places Into Private Ones

Emily Badget · The Atlantic Cities · May 16, 2012

Putting Facebook in Perspective

Mark Bonchek · The Harvard Business Review · May 16, 2012

You Are Not A Computer (Try As You May)

Tony Schwartz · The Harvard Business Review · May 16, 2012

To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day

Annie Bourne · The Harvard Business Review · May 17, 2012

How Tim Cook is changing Apple

Adam Lashinsky · Fortune · May 24, 2012

On Everything and Nothing & Reading and Not Writing

Cheri Lucas Rowlands · Writing Through the Fog · May 30, 2012

What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Life

Kare Anderson · The Harvard Business Review · June 5, 2012

Is It Possible to Wage a Just Cyberwar?

Patrick Lin, Fritz Allhoff and Neil Rowe · The Atlantic · June 5, 2012

You’re Not Special

David McCullough · Wellesley High School · June 5, 2012

Is It O.K. to Be a Mediocre Employee?

Jay Goltz · The NY Times Blogs: You’re the Boss · June 6, 2012

If You Don’t Like Your Future, Rewrite Your Past

Rosabeth Moss Kanter · The Harvard Business Review · June 11, 2012

Who Says Work Has to Be Fulfilling?

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer and Paul B. Brown · The Harvard Business Review · June 19, 2012

The Perfect Technocracy: Facebook’s Attempt to Create Good Government for 900 Million People

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · June 19, 2012

What Happens When We Turn the World’s Most Famous Robot Test on Ourselves?

Evan Selinger · The Atlantic · June 20, 2012

Happiness Will Not Be Downloaded

Steve Faktor · The Harvard Business Review · June 20, 2012

Solving Facebook’s Customer Advocacy Challenge, and Yours

Bill Lee · The Harvard Business Review · June 21, 2012

What Happened to Silicon Values?

Bill Davidow · The Atlantic · June 25, 2012

Someone is Coming to Eat You

Michael Lopp · Rands in Repose · June 28, 2012

The IRL Fetish

Nathan Jurgenson · The New Inquiry · June 28, 2012

Is Your City Making You Single?

Amanda Hess · The Atlantic Cities · June 29, 2012

The (Good or Bad) Seed of a Social Network

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · July 2, 2012

Notes on Past Selves & My Abandoned Digital Spaces

Cheri Lucas Rowlands · Writing Through the Fog · July 9, 2012

Do You Really Want to Be a Business Owner? Jay Goltz

Jay Goltz · The NY Times Blogs: You’re the Boss · July 11, 2012

I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why.

Kyle Wiens · The Harvard Business Review · July 20, 2012

Microsoft’s Lost Decade

Kurt Eichenwald · Vanity Fair · July 24, 2012

Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

Anne-Marie Slaughter · The Atlantic · August 1, 2012

Why passwords have never been weaker ”” and crackers have never been stronger

Dan Goodin · Ars Technica · August 20, 2012

How Steve Jobs’ Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution

Walter Isaacson · Smithsonian Magazine · September 1, 2012

If You Were the Next Steve Jobs…

Umair Haque · The Harvard Business Review · September 3, 2012

Throw Your Life a Curve

Whitney Johnson · The Harvard Business Review · September 3, 2012

Four Lessons From the Best Bosses I Ever Had

Deborah Mills-Scofield · The Harvard Business Review · September 4, 2012

Lessons from a Career, Interrupted

Adam Richardson · The Harvard Business Review · September 5, 2012

How Google Builds Its Maps””and What It Means for the Future of Everything

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · September 6, 2012

Deconstructing Recommender Systems

Joseph A. Konstan and John Riedl · IEEE Spectrum · September 24, 2012

Why Museums Suck

Howard Hwang · LA Youth · October 1, 2012

I am not a web designer.

Jessica Hische · October 15, 2012

After Google Glass: The Content of Our Augmented- Reality Future

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · October 25, 2012

The Malleability of Now

Cheri Lucas Rowlands · Writing Through the Fog · November 4, 2012

Cosmic Dawn: Astronomy’s Ancient Quest to Find the Universe’s First Stars

Ross Andersen · The Atlantic · November 14, 2012

When the Nerds Go Marching In

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · November 16, 2012

The Sound of Silence

Glenn Fleishman · The Magazine · November 22, 2012

Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Dorie Clark · The Harvard Business Review · November 22, 2012

You Are Boring

Scott Simpson · The Magazine · November 22, 2012

The Dual Lives of the Biographer

Stacy Schiff · The NY Times Blogs: Opinionator · November 24, 2012

When Women Leave the Workforce, Think of Those Left Behind

Karen Firestone · The Harvard Business Review · November 28, 2012

Hey, I Need to Talk to You About This Brilliant Obama Email Scheme

Alexis C. Madrigal · The Atlantic · November 29, 2012

Reclaim Your Creative Confidence

Tom Kelley and David Kelley · The Harvard Business Review · December 1, 2012

Cook Says Lives Enriched Matters More Than Money Made: Interview

Josh Tyrangiel · Bloomberg · December 6, 2012

Riding the Subway as Therapy

Jared Keller · The Atlantic Cities · December 7, 2012

Still Thinking About Now: On Twitter and (Real) Time

Cheri Lucas Rowlands · Writing Through the Fog · December 9, 2012

Never Lie About Who You Really Are

Dan Pallotta · The Harvard Business Review · December 18, 2012