Culture
The Death of Sport: Theaters of play are transforming into spectacles of politicking and financialization (Tablet, 2022)
How lax social media policies help fuel a prescription drug boom (Protocol, 2022)
For God and ‘The Network State’: The crypto elite’s endgame (Protocol, 2022)
Want to pitch a16z? Make sure it’s Lindy. (Protocol, 2022)
How social media became a ‘debate-themed video game’ (Protocol, 2022)
Why is tech illustration stuck on repeat? (Protocol, 2021)
How Chess.com built a streaming empire (Protocol, 2021)
Politics
The Cruel Tyranny of Sick Notes (The New Republic, 2023)
The Hollow Return of American Manufacturing (Tablet, 2023)
In data: Xi’s historic National Congress address reveals key tech priorities (Protocol, 2022)
The fight over gig work is ugly, expensive, and nowhere near over (Protocol, 2022)
The US won’t sanction Russia on SWIFT because of dedollarization (Protocol, 2022)
The great onshoring: Inside the transcontinental chip race (Protocol, 2022)
Books
This Stanford professor is confronting tech’s billionaire philosophers (for “What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley” by Stanford Professor Adrian Daub, for Protocol, 2021)
Steel and aluminum decided World War II. Chips will decide whatever comes next. (for “Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology” by Tufts Professor Chris Miller, for Protocol, 2022)
How Amazon helped create an America in despair (for “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America,” by Alec MacGillis, for Protocol, 2021)
Technology
The Cyborgs Go to Washington (Tablet, 2023)
NFT games are fun. Filing taxes afterward is a nightmare. (Protocol, 2022)
Privacy by Design laws will kill your data pipelines (Protocol, 2022)
Why tech shrugged off the new 15% corporate minimum tax (Protocol, 2022)
Hirsh Chitkara 