Baratunde Thurston

Dead Unicorns? A Burst Bubble? How I’d Fix It: Take My Money, Please

This one bit of advice can fix everything.

Fighting Words

Information does not want to be free the same way that I “want” doughnuts, so let’s stop thinking that it does.

This is what happens when a Gig Economy devotee goes full time

When the poster child for Generation Flux gets a full-time job, he realizes that maybe stability isn’t the enemy.

Do Not Fear The Robot Apocalypse

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others are concerned about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Maybe they shouldn’t be.

A Radical Proposal For Putting People In Charge Of Their Data

What if we got to decide when companies could access our personal information?

Why Using Facebook, Google, And Twitter To Log Into Apps Is A Problem

What we lose by giving the social media giants the keys to our mobile, social lives.

A Modest Proposal For Saving America’s Cities

“I could clone myself—or we could learn how to do a better job of sharing.”

It’s Time for Tech to Embrace Prison Reform

Let’s embrace prison reform, rather than just rethink education and immigration, to help address our labor issues.

Hopping Off The New-Device Treadmill

We have Slow Food, Slow Money, and even Slow Programming. Where is the outcry for a Slow Smartphone movement?

Tech Needs a Hug

Why we must remember to embrace humanity in a digital-mad world.

This Is Not a Joke

Facebook tested flagging fake articles as “satire”? You’ve got to be kidding me. This is why algorithms can’t solve everything.

Design Begins At Home

Design Begins At Home

We Cheer! We lead! We Know There is a Need!

Why playful virtual protests of real-world indignities can be more effective than playing the outrage card

Unplugging’s a Beach

A digital detox can be as reinvigorating as an island getaway, but routine, short tech breaks can be even more refreshing.

Help, I’ve been Growth-hacked!

What are the repercussions of engineering rapid success at any cost? Just messing with people’s lives, that’s all.

A New Social Contract

What if brands stepped away from trying to be part of the conversation and made products worthy of being talked about?

Hot on the Paper Trail

A receipt should be a chance to say more than “Thank you for shopping!”

Limitless

Constraints inspire creativity. Why hasn’t the Internet gotten the memo?