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

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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)

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