"Rivlin’s gift is his ability to make his subjects whole and human."
-Zachary Dowdy, Boston Globe

"A gifted California reporter…[with] a sharp eye and a clear voice."
-Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman (Great Britain)

An article of mine that appeared in Newsweek one year after the Nasdaq’s great fall.

"AOL’s Rough Riders," The Industry Standard, Oct. 30, 2000. This article won the 2001 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.

We ran this under the headline, "The Cult of the Marketeers," but I wanted to call it i"Shut Up, Already." It confronts the eternal question, How Do You Get Above the Noise When It’s All Noise? The Industry Standard, Aug. 7, 2000.

A TRB I wrote for The New Republic, in the spring 2000, when Larry Ellison and Bill Gates had roughly the same net worth.

"The Advisory Board Game," The Industry Standard, June 19, 2000: conflicts of interest and sticky ethics in Silicon Valley.

In 1999 Larry Ellison’s net worth soared by more than $25 billion. Meantime, the janitor who cleaned Ellison’s toilet earned a salary of $17,000 for the year. "Silicon Valley’s Dirty Side," March 21, 2000.

In Silicon Valley, people generally enjoy a self-perception that theirs is a meritocracy in which race and class don’t matter. I enjoyed taking on this perception in "The Myth of the Meritocracy," The Industry Standard, February 9, 2000:

In a land of hype, few companies have done a better job of building expectations than Transmeta, the company that hired Linus Torvalds. "Transmeta Exposed (or, Silence Is Golden)," The Industry Standard, January 19, 2000.

An article I wrote for The New Republic, in November 1999, following Judge Jackson's 1999 ruling that Microsoft was a monopoly that employed predatory practices.

"My 5 Minutes with Bill Gates," Salon.com, 1999.