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> Season 1 of Shell Game was excerpted in an extended segment on This American Life. The team there did a masterful job of condensing it into a one-episode tale. It’s the perfect primer in advance of Season 2, coming on November 12.

> My latest story for Bloomberg Businessweek is out, on the North Korean government’s scheme to place IT workers in jobs at hundreds of American companies. I revealed for the first time in any publication the names of companies like Google, Amazon, Boeing, NVIDIA, and Nike that have unwittingly hired North Korean agents, and had exclusive access to the story of the American facilitator who made it all possible.

> Shell Game is among the winners of the 2025 IMI Awards, “the first annual prestige prize awarded specifically to independent creators.” We’ll be accepting the award at the annual IMI Fest this fall.

> New Wired story from me: I spent the last two years on the trail of the Zizians, a group of technically gifted young people who set out to save the world. The ideas they embraced led them down a path littered with violence and death. Although it’s now an international news story and the subject of intense coverage, Wired and I were the only ones reporting on it from the beginning. I wrote about the backstory to the story for the Shell Game newsletter.

> Shell Game has landed on a number of best-of-the-year lists, including Apple’s top ten “Shows We Love” for 2024, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Podcast Review, The Information, Vulture, and The Economist. I also wrote about my experience on the show, and what I learned from my AI agents, for The New York Times.