Ainsley Harris
@ainsleyharris.bsky.social
Senior writer at Fast Company. ITP grad. Guitar student. Chicagoan.
Can’t stop thinking about this absolutely devastating read www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Can’t stop thinking about this absolutely devastating read www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
For @fastcompany.com’s fall issue, I wrote about embryo screening startup Orchid and the many problems with promising parents an optimized child www.fastcompany.com/91396712/sil...
Silicon Valley wants you to stop 'rolling the dice' about your future baby's health
Genomics startups like Noor Siddiqui's Orchid promise healthier children through advanced embryo screening. Do they deliver?
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October 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
For @fastcompany.com’s fall issue, I wrote about embryo screening startup Orchid and the many problems with promising parents an optimized child www.fastcompany.com/91396712/sil...
There is plenty of talk about building the future! It’s just that that future will revolve around crypto, AI, and weapons
feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
July 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There is plenty of talk about building the future! It’s just that that future will revolve around crypto, AI, and weapons
Always fun to see one of my @fastcompany.com stories on the @nytimes.com Audio app www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
Bilt to last? Inside the points-obsessed startup that rewards you for paying rent on time from Fast Company - Listen on NYT Audio
29 min listen - After pulling in members with its points-on-rent credit card, Bilt is building a $1-billion-a-year business as the loyalty program for life’s every expense.
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July 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Always fun to see one of my @fastcompany.com stories on the @nytimes.com Audio app www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
New from me: Rewards platform Bilt, now much more than a credit card, is processing $50B in annual rent payments and expects to hit $1B in ARR by Q1 2026
www.fastcompany.com/91336688/bil... Inside Bilt, the loyalty program that rewards you for paying rent - Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/91336688/bil... Inside Bilt, the loyalty program that rewards you for paying rent - Fast Company
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June 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New from me: Rewards platform Bilt, now much more than a credit card, is processing $50B in annual rent payments and expects to hit $1B in ARR by Q1 2026
www.fastcompany.com/91336688/bil... Inside Bilt, the loyalty program that rewards you for paying rent - Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/91336688/bil... Inside Bilt, the loyalty program that rewards you for paying rent - Fast Company
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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1. Senior writer at @fastcompany.com @ainsleyharris.bsky.social writes about technology, innovation and finance.
Her recent work includes covering the companies that are allowing police to embrace AI-powered video surveillance and the 23andMe CEO who wants to take the company private.
Her recent work includes covering the companies that are allowing police to embrace AI-powered video surveillance and the 23andMe CEO who wants to take the company private.
March 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
1. Senior writer at @fastcompany.com @ainsleyharris.bsky.social writes about technology, innovation and finance.
Her recent work includes covering the companies that are allowing police to embrace AI-powered video surveillance and the 23andMe CEO who wants to take the company private.
Her recent work includes covering the companies that are allowing police to embrace AI-powered video surveillance and the 23andMe CEO who wants to take the company private.
The death of the American Dream has paved the way for financial nihilism. I wrote about how this new culture of money is behind the rise of gambling-adjacent products like prediction markets and options trading: www.fastcompany.com/91270856/rob...
Robinhood is winning by giving 'degen' traders even more ways to bet
The platform that got millennials to love the market is going all in, offering stocks, election and sports betting, and even $TRUMP coin.
www.fastcompany.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The death of the American Dream has paved the way for financial nihilism. I wrote about how this new culture of money is behind the rise of gambling-adjacent products like prediction markets and options trading: www.fastcompany.com/91270856/rob...
Spare me the odes about vintage Elon! They do not reflect reality www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Throw Elon Musk Out of the Royal Society
Science has to be able to defend itself.
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March 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Spare me the odes about vintage Elon! They do not reflect reality www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
A little Friday night scoop: a16z and Tiger Global-backed Divvy Homes is being sold for parts to Brookfield Properties' Maymont Homes: www.fastcompany.com/91256507/div...
Scoop: Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global-backed Divvy Homes is being sold for parts to Brookfield Properties
Once valued at nearly $2 billion, Divvy Homes is being acquired in a fire sale by a division of Brookfield Properties.
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January 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A little Friday night scoop: a16z and Tiger Global-backed Divvy Homes is being sold for parts to Brookfield Properties' Maymont Homes: www.fastcompany.com/91256507/div...
Short-staffed police departments are turning to AI-powered license-plate readers to fight crime. Here’s my deep dive on the startup behind this new tech wave, and the implications for public safety: www.fastcompany.com/91231614/flo...
Police departments are embracing AI-powered video surveillance. This company is leading the effort
Police departments across the country are buying Flock Safety surveillance cameras and drones in the name of stopping crime.
www.fastcompany.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Short-staffed police departments are turning to AI-powered license-plate readers to fight crime. Here’s my deep dive on the startup behind this new tech wave, and the implications for public safety: www.fastcompany.com/91231614/flo...