N.A. Drescher

 The COVID pandemic revealed that many workers can work from anywhere. Are cities ready to attract them? The future of cities and the future of work are intimately connected. They always have been. During the industrial age, rural farmers flocked to the urban centers, and the cities we know today were born. Now those workers, many of whom are so-called 'knowledge workers' are completely mobile, untethered from the offices that kept them in urban cores. Most cities are not ready for this new reality. The Current State of Work The COVID pandemic is winding down in most of the developed world, and economies are returning to normal. Are they really, though? After all, during the pandemic, nearly 80% of companies switched to at-home work. That's millions of experienced and educated people working from home. Furthermore, 47% of company CEOs have said they will make work-from-home permanent. This not only saves the company a lot of money that would otherwise go to real estate, o

Is it time to get rid of cars? Think about it for a moment. Driving is a royal pain in the ass. It's ridiculously expensive and car-owners are milked for every last penny from both government and private business. Also, i t's incredibly dangerous; car accidents make up the fourth most common cause of death around the world. And it's frustrating that  the government hands a license to pretty much every who applies and you get some of the biggest douches behind the wheel everywhere you go! And let us not forget that i t's horrible for the environment, with nearly half of all greenhouse gas emissions coming from the ONE BILLION motor vehicles that are on our roads around the world. Cars need to be eliminated from our economic and cultural makeup and replaced with efficient, clean, automated and affordable public transit. A Brief Look At How We Got Here Cars and highways and driver licenses and auto insurance are relatively new to the world. The roads of A

We’ve all been there. As tech enthusiasts, we spend most of our time conversing with other people in the know. But when I casually mentioned the upcoming Libra crypto to my mom, I was met with a blank stare. It was a bit of a revelation. Until now I had just assumed that Libra was front-page news everywhere. I couldn’t believe that my mom had never heard of it. “But Mum!” I stammered (she’s British) “It’s all over Facebook!” Apparently, it’s only all over Facebook for me. I had forgotten about those algorithms. Who knows what Facebook is feeding my mom? If you’ve ever been stumped by a Baby Boomer’s reaction to technology that will change the course of the future, you’ll know what I was feeling. But it doesn’t have to be so. And thankfully I was able to gather myself together and explain Libra, a blockchain, and cryptocurrency to my mom in a way that she understood. Here’s how I did it. Our Moms Oh, the Baby Boomer generation. They look so cool in those 1960s films, wh

This piece that I wrote in 2018 for The Travel has become one of the most shared articles I've ever written! In fact, I was talking to a woman at a writing company and she mentioned she heard my name and loved my cruise ship article. I guess I'm a minor celebrity now? See for yourself !

In 2015 I took on an exciting project as a contributing writer to VM Production's BTS movie "Dostoevsky Reimagined." This was a behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of Notes From The New World. To be approached by someone from VM Productions was exciting, and I got to spend a bit of time video-conferencing with the director. I wrote such insightful articles as "These Famous Movies Have Surprising Art-House Roots" and "5 Things You Didn't Know About the Russian Mafia." The contract ended, and I moved on once the movie was released. Fun times!

One of my articles got published in White Summary. Check it out !