On Microsoft Excel, Big Software, and Brazilian Favelas.

On touching data.

On the Great Works of Software and Detroit.

The Secret Life of My Passwords

Letters from Paris: Montmartre and the Digital Cabaret.

Letters from Paris: Flâneur as Voleur.

On how engineers and scientists are like guardian angels.

On leaning in.

Why I still don’t have a Kindle.

On sonic interaction design, the Velveteen Rabbit, and R2D2.