He has been a frequent contributor to “This American Life,” including co-reporting the episode “The Giant Pool of Money,” which received a Peabody Award, a DuPont-Columbia Award, and a Polk Award, and was named one of the top works of journalism of the decade by New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, GQ, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He has also served as a technical consultant to Adam McKay, the co-writer and director of the Academy Award-winning film “The Big Short.”