Writing

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Recent writing (late 2017—present)

A History of Capitalism in Palo Alto: An Interview With Malcolm Harris

for Hard Crackers (December 13, 2023)

AI Is Exposing Who Really Has Power in Silicon Valley

for The Atlantic (March 27, 2023)

Coronavirus has made Amazon a public utility – so we should treat it like one

for the Guardian's opinion section (April 17, 2020)

The Broken Mythologies of Silicon Valley

for the sixth issue of Tribune (March 4, 2020)

What I learned at the Ayn Rand conference

for the New Statesman (February 11, 2020)

Journalism’s Digital Difficulties

for the third issue of Tribune (May 31, 2019)

Yang Gang Education (on Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang)

for Dissent Magazine (April 5, 2019)

‘Sorry To Bother You’ and tech worker organising

for Notes From Below, call centre issue (February 14, 2019)

Abolish Silicon Valley

for the first issue of Tribune, which launched September 2018 (the website came out January 10, 2019).

Beyond “Taming” the Tech Giants (originally delivered as a talk)

for New Socialist (December 1, 2018)

Tech Workers' Inquiry at The World Transformed (transcript of a session at TWT2018)

for New Socialist (October 30, 2018)

Tackling the platforms: on IPPR's Digital Commonwealth report

for New Socialist (September 14, 2018) — originally published by Autonomy

Freedom Isn't Free (on the philosophical failures of the open source movement)

for issue 5 of Logic Magazine (August 15, 2018)

Organising Silicon Valley's Shadow Workforce (on contract workers at big tech companies)

for Notes From Below (July 31, 2018)

Towards an Organized Tech Industry—Part Two (panel discussion at Left Forum 2018)

for New Socialist (July 29, 2018)

Towards an Organized Tech Industry—Part One (panel discussion at Left Forum 2018)

for Notes From Below (July 15, 2018)

The next financial crisis - Silicon Valley hubris (a short part of a multi-contributor piece)

for New Internationalist (July 1, 2018)

Now is the Time for Worker Power in the Tech Industry

for Novara Media (June 27, 2018)

The case for building worker power at Microsoft (on Microsoft's links to ICE)

for Notes From Below (June 19, 2018)

Book Review: How to be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software by Matthew Fuller

for LSE Review of Books (May 23, 2018)

Technological Development For The Many (originally delivered as a talk)

for New Socialist (May 19, 2018)

Technology and The Worker (the editorial for the second issue)

for Notes From Below (March 30, 2018; co-written with Marijam Didžgalvytė)

Tech culture, unions and the blind spot of meritocracy (a conversation with Xavier Denis)

for Notes From Below, tech issue (March 30, 2018)

Corbynism and The Youth Wing (a conversation with Lara McNeill and Daniel Frost)

for New Socialist (March 28, 2018)

Labour's New Economics Conference: Part Three, Housing Session

for New Socialist (February 24, 2018)

Labour's New Economics Conference: Part Two, Digital Session

for New Socialist (February 21, 2018)

Silicon Inquiry (a personal inquiry into the tech industry)

for Notes From Below, first issue (January 29, 2018)

A year of 200 books (on my Goodreads reading challenge for 2017)

for my blog (January 3, 2018)

Labour's Digital Strategy is a Missed Opportunity (on the many failures of Liam Byrne, MP)

for New Socialist (December 17, 2017)

Social Murder, Productivity Crisis & Irresponsible Technology Policy: The 2017 Budget

for New Socialist (November 25, 2017; co-written with Tom Gann and Kyle Geraghty)

The Inevitability of the Gig Economy

for New Socialist (November 19, 2017)

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