I’m a French entrepreneur based in San Francisco. I have worked for three years with plant medicine and recently spent three months deep in the Amazon forest with the Yawanawa and Ashaninka tribes.
The knowledge and plant medicine they shared...
A curious dive into the rise of conversational technology (think messaging apps, voice assistants, and chatbots). And the way they’re shaping the conversation online and off.
Hello! Katherine Spiers here, announcing my shiny new e-newsletter. It’s a companion to my food history podcast Smart Mouth (I’m about 150 episodes in), but it won’t cover the exact same topics. They’re sisters, not twins...
A weekly roundup of the most important news in tech and media by Simon Owens. I'm a longtime tech reporter and marketing consultant. My writing has appeared in places like US News & World Report, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and
The Pirate Wires newsletter tends to summarize and riff on current events, whereas podcast episodes and longer-form essays deep dive into fringe, uncomfortable, or otherwise strange topics I find interesting. In the broadest sense, I like to focus on
Fourteen years ago, I started my first blog and promptly stopped sending group emails to my friends. Eventually, I guess everything comes full circle.
If you’re here, it’s probably because you already know my work and like my voice enough to...