Ashlee Vance covers technology for Bloomberg Businessweek and is the author of of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

“To be totally clear, I don’t cover them (apps). I like people who try to solve big problems. Wherever I go, I try to run away from the consumer stuff. I love writing about giant manufacturing plants that make stuff and employ tens of thousands of people.”

Thanks to this week's sponsors: TinyLetter, Trunk Club, QuickBooks, and The School of Continuing Education at Columbia University.



Show Notes:


The Atavist Magazine Podcast: Episode 1
@valleyhack
ashleevance.com
Vance on Longform
[15:00] Vance's Register archive
[15:00] Vance's New York Times archive
[16:00] "Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power" (New York Times • Jan 2009)
[19:00] The "Semi-Coherent Computing" Podcast
[22:00] Longform Podcast #123: Nicholas Carlson
[27:00] "This Tech Bubble Is Different" (Bloomberg Businessweek • Apr 2011)
[31:00] "Larry Ellison Is Spending a Fortune to Save American Tennis" (Bloomberg Businessweek • Apr 2011)
[31:00] "Multiplayer Game 'Eve Online' Cultivates a Most Devoted Following" (Bloomberg Businessweek • Apr 2013)
[33:00] "The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet" (Bloomberg Businessweek • Jan 2015)
[41:00] Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! (Nicholas Carlson • Twelve • 2015)
[41:00] "Yahoo Sues Ex-Staffer Claiming She Gave Secrets to Writer" (Joel Rosenblatt, Brian Womack • Bloomberg • May 2015)
[46:00] "The Killing of Osama bin Laden" (Seymour M. Hersh • London Review of Books • May 2015)
[54:00] "Elon Musk, a Biography by Ashlee Vance, Paints a Driven Portrait" (Dwight Garner • New York Times • May 2015)