> It also offers a portrait of Silicon Valley engineers that differs sharply from their current caricature as well-paid villains who are driving up the price of real estate in San Francisco and making the city unbearable for others.

What? "unbearable"? That seems a little out of place. Would most NYTimes readers have any idea what he's talking about?

From the author's recent articles list:

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In little more than a decade, Google has become essential and omnipresent. Now the question is whether people will start to resent and oppose it.

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As entrepreneurs invade regulated industries and evade traditional watchdogs, the question of who is responsible when something goes wrong looms large.

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Airbnb likes to say that it gives more people the money they need to pay their bills. But new research suggests that as the sharing industry spreads, more people are going to need that money, because they’ll be unemployed.

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Uber and a Child's Death

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Hard-hit by recession, many in Europe have questioned whether jobs at Amazon’s warehouses there are good for the economy or dehumanizing.

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seems to exclusively write negative stories about bay area tech