Further Highlights
A deeper cut from decades on the business and technology beat.
More of the work I am most proud of, including analysis, investigations, profiles, and the occasional voicier essay. Work is organized by year and drawn from The Boston Globe, Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Businessweek, TheStreet.com, Bloomberg Markets, The Industry Standard, and Wired.
Students at the prestigious music school pushed back against AI songwriting tools they feared could eliminate their careers.
How a new category of startups is aiming to serve older consumers (from the Innovation Beat newsletter).
The tech pioneer and Lotus 1-2-3 founder returned to Cambridge to finish what he started.
During the final days of the beloved Allston diner, a showcase of the people who loved eating there and the people who served them.
How a retired engineer built a $20-a-month AI image-recognition rig to keep Canada geese off his rowing club’s docks.
The untold story of two former Olin College students whose research helped lay the groundwork for ChatGPT — and what their move west says about Boston’s place in the AI race.
A road-trip experiment driving a couple of EVs across New England in search of sweet treats.
The prep school was one of the first in the country to bar smartphones from campus for teachers as well as kids.
The surprising behavioral science behind a Boston startup trying to fight addiction.
A deep dive into how the world’s largest video platform turned itself into a creator-driven advertising business rivaling Hollywood and cable television.
The turbulent journey of an autonomous Navy vessel built to track Chinese and Russian submarines.
The trillion-dollar stakes for the companies racing to deliver consumer connectivity from low-Earth orbit.
How a third-place wireless carrier broke its industry’s unwritten rules through audacity, consumer obsession, and an edgy brand voice.
A six-week strike by 40,000 telecom workers ended on terms few outsiders ever saw. The narrative of how it happened, reconstructed from inside the room.
Written against the consensus that Apple was about to disrupt the card networks. Apple locked in existing fee structures, and consumers were the ones paying.
How bond star Jeffrey Gundlach departed TCW and Société Générale, reconstructed from the conference-room showdown where he asked his lieutenants to raise their hands if they would walk out with him, through his firing and the lawsuit that followed.
How the Swiss bank sold tens of billions of dollars in auction-rate securities to clients as “cash equivalents” — until the market froze and the money was stuck.
Fighting the consensus view that Amazon’s new e-reader would flop.
A two-month investigation into the future of American commercial fishing. Reporting from Alaska, Maine, and Washington; cited in the federal regulatory debate that followed.
Debut column, published the morning after Google’s pricing guidance.
Archived copy at the Internet Archive; TheStreet.com’s own archive is no longer public.
Written two years before the peak and against a vast consensus that home prices could only go up and up.
Archived copy at the Internet Archive; TheStreet.com’s own archive is no longer public.
The scoop that fed the broader mutual-fund scandal: Arizona regulators had been censuring Security Trust’s CEO for years before New York’s attorney general filed charges. Two months later, federal regulators ordered Security Trust dissolved and charged three top executives with fraud.
A San Francisco company had built a database of 150 million voters and was about to sell it to online marketers. After this story ran, they cancelled their IPO.
Reporting on online retail before “e-commerce” was a word people used. From the December 1995 issue, one of my earliest published tech stories.
For everything else, including the running tech beat at the Globe, recent newsletter columns, and the wider archive of work I haven’t curated here, the closest thing I have to a comprehensive index lives on Authory:
authory.com/AaronPressman →