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Ainsley Harris

@ainsleyharris.bsky.social
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Senior writer at Fast Company. ITP grad. Guitar student. Chicagoan.

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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Clean water and clean air should be public goods. But increasingly, they’re aspirational branding opportunities. My rant on the sorry state of consumer safety, and how startups are taking advantage: www.fastcompany.com/91565959/loo...
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Loonen and the rise of consumer safety as status symbol
With environmental regulation in retreat, startup brands are finding they can profit by selling clean water, clean air, and more to the rich.
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New from me: a team of Irish scientists is launching a wearable for tracking hot flashes, night sweats, and other perimenopause symptoms. Activist Ali Hewson, wife of U2 frontman Bono, is an angel investor and told me about her perimenopause experience: www.fastcompany.com/91519154/fin...
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Finally, a wearable designed for women approaching menopause
Peri tracks hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, and more. Its investors include activist Ali Hewson, wife of U2 frontman Bono.
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Thanks @npr.org for having me on yesterday to talk sidewalk bots! 🤖 www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...
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Sidewalk delivery robots are colonizing city sidewalks and raising concerns
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Ainsley Harris, senior writer at Fast Company, about the accelerated rollout of delivery robots and how they're being received in communities across the country.
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New from me: Chicago is the first city where residents have launched a petition against delivery robots. Do they portend sidewalk enshittification? Probably yes! www.fastcompany.com/91486773/sid...
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My neighborhood is pushing back against sidewalk delivery robots. The fight’s coming to your town next
A dispatch from the bucolic Chicago neighborhood that's the latest battleground between tech and cities over food delivery robots.
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Like so many tech stories right now, this is also religion story: a 25-year-old founder who has moved through a Doug Wilson-affiliated church, is now Eastern Orthodox, and "quotes the Bible and Elon Musk in the same breath." By @ainsleyharris.bsky.social: www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
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The hardest startup in America
Augustus Doricko’s Rainmaker uses cloud seeding to bring rain where it’s needed. In the process, he’s been swept up in a storm of controversy.
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Can a Christian tech bro restore faith in science? I went to the Great Salt Lake to meet Rainmaker CEO Augustus Doricko and find out. This story takes twists and turns through prototyping workshops, right-wing podcasts, and fields with cow dung. Give it a read! www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
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The hardest startup in America
Augustus Doricko’s Rainmaker uses cloud seeding to bring rain where it’s needed. In the process, he’s been swept up in a storm of controversy.
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Can’t stop thinking about this absolutely devastating read www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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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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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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...
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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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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
There is plenty of talk about building the future! It’s just that that future will revolve around crypto, AI, and weapons
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Always fun to see one of my @fastcompany.com stories on the @nytimes.com Audio app www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
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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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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism at ASU @businessjournalism.org · 03/03/2025
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.
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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...
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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.
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Spare me the odes about vintage Elon! They do not reflect reality www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Throw Elon Musk Out of the Royal Society
Science has to be able to defend itself.
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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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...
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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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Ainsley Harris @ainsleyharris.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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...
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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.
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