(Twitter @alialmossawi)

Ali Almossawi is author of "Bad Choices: How algorithms can help you think smarter and live happier." Almossawi works on the data science team at Mozilla. He's an alumnus of MIT and Carnegie Mellon and has worked at the MIT Media Lab.

Also on today's program: State Sen. Dan Claitor is proposing to end the death penalty. He speaks with us about that here.