You can’t. You can’t, and I can’t help you. Okay, maybe you can, but don’t email reporters about it. Try the commercial team. Don’t email reporters offering them money to publish your article. It’s pretty rude, and we get dozens of inquiries about that per day. We’re fucking bored of…

The speed of information just kept a lead-footed slipper on the accelerator — The first casualty of war is the truth. Someone smart said that once, at a course I did in university. Journalism, I think it was. Apropos university, that’s when I learned to code because I was too introverted to be a journalist. “On the internet,” I figured. Technology wasn’t going…

How Ketamine treatment enabled me to re-live a traumatic experience and find self-compassion 30 years after the event. — The second time of my life I had a panic attack, I was around 10 years old. I was in the Principal’s office at a school in Norway. I don’t remember how I got there, or what had happened. As the red mist of anger was dissipating, a number of…

… Even if you have specific COVID-19 coverage included, apparently. — In June of 2022, I got sick with COVID-19 on a trip to Australia. That really sucked; this was the first time I would be able to see my family for in almost two years, and the two-week trip was significantly impacted by getting sick. Luckily, I had travel insurance…

Over the years, we’ve seen a steady trickle of tech journalists leaping the fence and heading for the VC world. (I was one — I went from TechCrunch to starting my own startup, then joined a VC fund for a couple of years). A number of people don’t seem to…

You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars to grow salad, tomatoes, or strawberries hydroponically. Here’s how to do it for less than $150, everything included. — As part of my day job at TechCrunch, I get a surprising number of pitches for companies doing at-home hydroponics systems. They have a few things in common; they typically have a subscription model so they can send you seeds and nutrients. The setups themselves can also be eye-wateringly expensive.

Grief was my teacher for how to grieve. Absence making itself known in my body like a soft, gentle wave of heaviness. That deep, sucking feeling of being pulled under. The struggle that somehow makes it worse, and the acceptance that makes the emotion brighter but pass faster. Grief is…

If I close my eyes right now, I can still smell them. Three or four bookcases, full of books, all cheap wood-pulp paperbacks. The kind of paperback that when you pick it up, you wonder how something with so many pages could weigh so little. Coffee- and curry-stained books, purchased…

More and more, I’m getting pitches from PR folks that are marked as ‘draft’. Honestly, as a reporter, I don’t give two craps if it’s a draft or not — if you’re sharing info with me, you’re sharing info with me. — I’ve had a bit of a break from being a tech reporter, and I’ve gotta say — things haven’t gotten better over the last five years. More than once in the last few weeks, I’ve had people share something with me, then tried to withdraw the information. That’s… not how…