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Jeffrey O'Brien

  • Senior Producer, Apple
  • Writer and Editor, Freelance
San Francisco, United States
As seen in: CNN, Bloomberg News, WIRED Magazine, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, Orlando Sentinel, JD Supra, Wisconsin Lawyer, North Wright County Today, Open Legal Blog Archive
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Business gets ready to trip: How psychedelic drugs may revolutionize mental health care

Business gets ready to trip: How psychedelic drugs may revolutionize mental health care

Fortune — Silicon Valley legends. Billionaire financiers. Patent attorneys. They're all awakening to the massive potential of an industry preparing to emerge from darkness.
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The great stem cell dilemma

The great stem cell dilemma

Fortune — Breakthroughs promise a new era in medicine, and billionaire donors like Eli Broad and Bill Gross are lending support. But not even Andy Grove can figure out how to make the business work.
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The Vine Nerds

The Vine Nerds

WIRED Magazine — By gaining insight into the relationships between water, sunlight, yield, and taste, Fruition Sciences is showing the way for farmers of all stripes to increase productivity and quality in a world of shifting weather patterns and decreasing supplies of freshwater. To a growing cadre of A-list winemakers, there's actionable intelligence in the data.
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Bill Watkins' @#*&! Bright Idea

Bill Watkins' @#*&! Bright Idea

Bloomberg BusinessWeek — Longtime tech executive Bill Watkins has an idea for how to radically reinvent energy
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It's All Clicking for Wayfair, a Fortune 500 Newcomer

It's All Clicking for Wayfair, a Fortune 500 Newcomer

Fortune — The newly minted Fortune 500 entrant has two visionary founders, 2,300 data geeks, and skyrocketing sales. Now it just needs to turn a profit.
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Is Silicon Valley bad for your health?

Is Silicon Valley bad for your health?

Fortune — Grueling hours. Stress. Junk food and Red Bull. Obesity is rising in America's economic frontier, and the health consequences could be dire.
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Can big data help you get a good night's sleep?

Can big data help you get a good night's sleep?

Fortune — Large-scale computing power, combined with input from millions of fitness trackers, could help unlock the mysteries of our national insomnia.
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The Making of TaylorMade's Rocketballz

The Making of TaylorMade's Rocketballz

Bloomberg BusinessWeek — Inside the last-ditch effort at TaylorMade's R&D factory to save golf
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Amazon's Next Revolution

Amazon's Next Revolution

Fortune — A Fortune cover story on Jeff Bezos' plans with the Kindle
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Weight Watchers Revamps Its Magic Formula

Weight Watchers Revamps Its Magic Formula

WIRED Magazine — Like many Weight Watchers members, David Kirchhoff has a Before picture and an After picture. In the Before, he looks jolly but hefty, all cheeks and jowls, the result of years of eating obliviously.
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Saving Easter Island

Saving Easter Island

CNN — Nine hundred years ago the residents of Easter Island committed ecocide. Now an unlikely trio - a middle-aged native woman, a tech evangelist from Autodesk, and the 'Norwegian Howard Hughes' - are banding together to stop history from repeating itself.
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The Wonder Fish

The Wonder Fish

CNN — Neil Sims has figured out a way to farm delicious yellow-fin tuna, sustainably, just off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island
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Zillow has created a real estate revolution

Zillow has created a real estate revolution

Fortune — A cover story on the then-new startup Zillow, and its quest to remake the real estate industry.
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The Race to Create a "Smart" Google

The Race to Create a "Smart" Google

Fortune — From Pandora to Netflix to Amazon, the race is on to create the ultimate recommendation engine that knows you better than you know yourself
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To Hell and Back

To Hell and Back

WIRED Magazine — Bill Stone has invented diving gear and roving robots to explore the deepest - and deadliest - caves on earth. In the icy water 4,500 feet below Mexico he had to figure out how to bring his dead friend home.
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The Bounty Hunter

The Bounty Hunter

WIRED Magazine — The richest shipwreck in history has been sitting beneath a half mile of ocean for 300 years. Greg Stemm is sending a robot down to get it. In 1694, an 80-gun British warship called the HMS Sussex set sail for southern France loaded with as much as 3 million pounds sterling and 6 tons of gold.
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