From UCSF Magazine, June 12, 2018 I loved working on this story about incredible UCSF scientist Wendell Lim, who is figuring out how to program cells in ways that may help cure many diseases. By Dan Fost Scientists working on the molecular and cellular level know that big things happen in small systems. In 2007, […]
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The Wizard of O.co: San Francisco magazine, September 2014
The Wizard of O.co A decade after Moneyball, the cult of Billy Beane is alive and well—perhaps nowhere more than in Silicon Valley. By Dan Fost Sept. 26, 2014 Billy Beane is so over Moneyball. “I’m sort of sick of me,” the Oakland A’s general manager tells me over the phone in early August. You […]
UCSF Public Mission
In June 2012, I wrote an extensive report on all the ways that UCSF fulfills its mission of public service. One of the ways UCSF fulfills its public mission is providing access to pioneering care to patients with complex cases. Here, David Rowitch, MD, PhD, professor and chief of neonatology, and Sonia Bonifacio, MD, assistant […]
Shed a tear for Dow Jones
I wrote a story in today’s New York Times about how Dow Jones has lost its spot in the Standard & Poor’s 500, getting replaced by GameStop, a shopping mall seller of new and used video games. For Dow Jones, the demotion is but one more sign of the painful move into Rupert Murdoch’s fold. For […]
Fortune, if not fame
A story I wrote about what Rupert Murdoch might do with the San Francisco Web site MarketWatch.com is up today on Fortune.com. Fortune has revamped its Web site, and it looks great. Now, instead of stories appearing to come from CNNMoney, you can tell that they’re by Fortune writers. I hope to contribute more in […]
USA Today: Cash, charge or cell phone?
I’ve got a story in this morning’s USA Today about how cell phones will soon have credit card information stored in a chip, so that you’ll only have to wave it over a scanner in order to pay for something. While all the experts I spoke to said this is a very secure technology, there […]
New York Times: Outsource my chores to India
The New York Times today published a story I wrote about how small businesses and individuals can outsource even mundane tasks to “virtual personal assistants” in India. In reporting the story, I found many people using these affordable services in a variety of creative ways: A woman in New Jersey who works for a health […]