Triangulation Creators & Guests

Leo Laporte is the host of The Tech Guy's weekly radio show and author.

George McDonald Church is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, and Robert Winthrop professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, and a founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit, the free repair manual. He writes and speaks regularly repair, e-waste, and informal economies. He is also the founder of Dozuki, a software company that helps manufacturers publish online technical documentation.Wiens has testified on electronics reuse before International Trade Commission and is actively involved in developing global environmental standards. His writing has appeared in Wired, the Harvard Business Review, and the Wall Street Journal, and he has appeared on radio and television networks including MSNBC, the BBC, CBC, and NPR.Wiens received his B.S. in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo.

Ken Kocienda is an inventor, former software engineer and designer at Apple, and distinguished engineer at Airbnb.

David Mikkelson is a writer, researcher, and the founder & CEO of Snopes.

Scott Blaine Johnson is a cartoonist, illustrator, designer, and podcaster. Johnson began publishing the weekly podcast AppSlappy. He is the co-hosts of podcast AppSlappy.

Bryan Walsh is a writer, editor and author of the book, "End Times."

Brianna Wu is an American video game developer and computer programmer. She was co-host of the weekly Isometric podcast on Relay FM. The podcast was launched in May 2014 and covers the video game industry and on April 18, 2016, the Isometric podcast was ended.

Dr. Rebecca Giblin is a member of Monash University's Law Faculty.

Cory Efram Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

Daniel Suarez is an author and IT consultant. He initially published under the pseudonym Leinad Zeraus.Suarez writes techno-thriller novels. His first book, "Daemon," was published in 2006. His following books are "Freedom™" (2010), "Kill Decision" (2012), "Influx" (2014), "Change Agent" (2017), and "Delta-v" (2019).

Brian Merchant is a technology writer, author, editor at Motherboard, and founder & editor of online fiction outlet Terraform at VICE.

Dr. Margaret O'Mara (born 1970) is an American historian and professor at the University of Washington. She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech economy, and connections between high-tech and the history of U.S. politics.O'Mara's writing on technology, politics, and society has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, and The American Prospect. Her first book, "Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search For The Next Silicon Valley," was published in 2005. Her second book, "Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century," was published in 2015. Her third book, "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America," was published in 2019. O'Mara has also appeared on major broadcast television and radio outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, PBS, BBC, CBC, and NPR. She is a public speaker, regularly lecturing before general and academic audiences about Silicon Valley's evolution and the impact of its people, companies, and politics on the United States and the world and about the past, present, and future of the American presidency.Prior to her academic career, O'Mara served in the Clinton Administration, working on economic and social policy in the White House and in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.O'Mara received her B.A. from Northwestern University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jessica Powell is an author, former vice president of communications for Google, and served on the company's management team.

Marc Rogers is a VP of Cybersecurity Strategy at Okta and co-founder of the CTI-League.

John Hodgman is an author, actor, and humorist. His published written works include The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All.

John Carreyrou is an author and journalist. He is known for having exposed the company Theranos to be a fraud.Carreyrou has reported for the The Wall Street Journal and has been based in Brussels, Paris, and New York City.Carreyrou began his career at the Dow Jones Newswires. He later joined The Wall Street Journal Europe at Brussels, then moved to Paris, then was appointed the deputy bureau chief for Southern Europe, then the bureau chief of the health and science bureau in New York. He has won the Pulitzer Prize twice.Carreyrou was raised in Paris. He received his B.A. in political science and government from Duke University.