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SF bureau chief for Inc. My book "Play On," about the science of longevity in elite athletes, is out in May. FAQ: It's burr-KOH-vih-see.

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    24 Oct 2017

    My new cover story on & the race to grow meat without slaughtering animals.

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  2. 4 hours ago

    Mark Zuckerberg testified like a man who thinks what his company does is indefensible. brings the boom

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  3. 8 hours ago

    This is good by . Could Zuck possibly have been telling the truth when he claimed ignorance about well-known Facebook practices like tracking logged-out users on the web?

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Sheila Johnson, BET co-founder and the first African-American entrepreneur to be worth $1B, can't get a seat on a board of directors. She has a hunch about why, she tells .

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  5. Apr 11

    Set all the ad-targeting options in my Facebook settings to "no." Pretty quickly, it made a big difference in the ads I see. Depersonalized ads are easier to tune out, I think.

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  6. Apr 11

    drinking game: every time Zuck says "broader view of our responsibility" take a swig of hemlock

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  7. Apr 10

    Assuming "connecting the world" is something you can ever do without causing more harm than good is begging the question. Zuck treats it as a ground truth but it's an article of faith. It's a hypothesis and we're the experiment.

    Zuck reiterates that he opposes the subscription model because it is not “aligned with our mission of connecting the world.” Maybe it’s time to change the mission? Plenty of companies are crazy successful (like Netflix) w/subscription.
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  8. Apr 10

    The Facebook-logo-blue tie really says "I'm not going to say anything I didn't rehearse so don't bother trying"

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  9. Apr 10

    This is not the tarantula I will be telling a story about tonight at to celebrate 's book "Look Big" about wild animal encounters. For one thing, it's male and my tarantula was female. How can you tell? Come tonight and find out!

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  10. Apr 10

    Congratulations to my friends on not being dipshits

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  11. Apr 9

    The only people person in my timeline defending Facebook for the past two weeks is someone whose boss is on the board of Facebook. not a great look.

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  12. Apr 9

    If you think your product is great, why not invite reviewers to amend or add to their reviews after, say, six months? Or wait until then to ask for an initial review. Does anyone do this?

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  13. Apr 9

    E-commerce gripe: A lot of products are hard to review properly until you've used them a while, but the seller always prompts you to write a review immediately. I like writing reviewing stuff, but if I write a glowing review and then defects emerge later, I feel like a chump.

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  14. Apr 6

    Zuck is taking "a broader view of our responsibilities." Just look how he's taking responsibility for the contents of other people's in-boxes.

    Facebook admits it deleted Fb messages sent by Zuckerberg & other execs from non-employees' inboxes with no disclosure. Seems like a breach of trust to me.
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  15. Apr 5

    If you want to hear my not-safe-for-PETA story about being involuntary roommates with a tarantula, come to this Tuesday night. And buy "Look Big"!

    THIS is going to be fun. I personally promise you. Save the date. April 10 with , , , and others from .
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  16. Apr 5

    Facebook: We're so sorry we were naive about how bad actors might use the data we collect Simultaneously Facebook: Oooh what if we could find out which of our users have cancer?

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  17. Apr 5

    Jesus. Even assuming Facebook had the purest of intentions here, how could this company see itself--as recently as LAST MONTH--as a good enough steward of users' data to even think about touching something this sensitive?

    SCOOP: Facebook's Building 8 team explored data-sharing with top hospitals for an ambitious research project, but that's now on hold (sources) tip
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  18. Apr 5

    "we thought his ideas would be just bad enough to appease our critics, we didn't realize they'd be bad enough to outrage our allies" is a pretty lame explanation to have to resort to

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  19. Apr 5

    here's an idea: hire opinion writers whose ideas you think are good, not opinion writers who seem like good representatives of what you know are bad ideas. that would save everyone some trouble.

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  20. Apr 5

    Smart by . The era of "what the hell, it's a free app, might as well try it" is over.

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  21. Apr 4

    Were any of the other tech reporters on the call with Zuck today mildly offended he repeated some version of the phrase "broader view of our responsibilities" at least 6 times? Like, we know what you're trying to do, my man!

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