I’m Alex Davies.

I’m a journalist and author who loves digging into the systems, inventions, and people that quietly shape how the world works. I have written for and led teams at Wired, The Athletic, and Business Insider, and I’m now shaping long-form features at Amazon News.

My 2021 book Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car, is an award-winning inside account of the self-driving vehicle revolution.

My forthcoming book, Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering explores the engineers, scientists, and testers who push the world’s most important systems to their limits.