Hello, friend. How’d you like to get rich — like, really, really rich — just by selling some crap? You’ll have to pony up a little to buy the crap from someone who got in before you. But don’t worry; all you have to do is convince enough other people…

I’ve been wary of online marketplaces ever since I tried to sell my car on Craigslist a few years ago. The posting generated far more scammers than potential purchasers, rendering the site largely useless. …

The recent allegations concerning Facebook… er, “Meta”… sound quite damning. Over the past few weeks, former employees, backed by stacks of internal records, have publicly aired a number of ugly contentions. Algorithms directing Facebook users to hate speech and disinformation. Apps that help facilitate human trafficking. Instagram dynamics that harm…

When I retired from full-time legal practice a couple years back, I pledged to use my time constructively: finishing that book I’d always wanted to write; volunteering in the community; getting a little more involved in politics. So, naturally, I ended up wasting hours and hours on Twitter. I try…

For those of us steeped in Silicon Valley tech culture, the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of failed blood-testing start-up Theranos, is a major event. It’s basically OJ for tech nerds. White collar criminal trials are rare to begin with; throw in a high-profile scandal (already eliciting various books, podcasts…

[Did you miss Part 1? You can check it out here!] When Julie and I started planning our post-vaccination road trip, we’d intended to drive from San Francisco to Chicago to celebrate my mother’s [censored] birthday. We’d converge there with our kids, who’d both moved to the East Coast last…

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And by drugs, I mean the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. A few weeks after receiving our second shot, I headed out with my wife, Julie, for a three-week road trip through the western…

Part Two: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Insider Trading Trading activity by members of Congress early in the pandemic, as well as by executives whose companies are involved in vaccine development, has once again resulted in a lot of public chatter about insider trading. …

Part One: GameStop, Robinhood, and Sticking It To The Man Over the course of a nearly 30-year career in securities law, I became accustomed to my chosen profession being a total snooze-fest for friends and family, intermittently broken up by brief intervals where it was all they wanted to talk about. Like topics ranging from politics to technology to religion…