I'm a writer.  My by-line usually reads David H. Freedman.

I'm currently at work on a book about why experts usually turn out to be wrong, to be published by Little, Brown in 2010.

My most recently published book is A PERFECT MESS (co-authored with Eric Abrahamson), published in January, 2007; the paperback came out in January, 2008.  It's about how disorganization and messiness can be good things.  It has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Time, and on the Today show, CBS Sunday Morning and National Public Radio, and more than a hundred other publications and shows.  You can read more about the book here, and watch or listen to me in TV and radio clips, and see articles I've written about useful disorganization, here.

I'm the author of three other books, and have contributed at one time or another to many publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Science, The Harvard Business Review, Newsweek and Wired.  (You can learn more about my books, and browse some of my articles, via the links on the left.)  I've occasionally taught writing at Emerson College, and have spoken to numerous executive, student, scientific and government audiences about science, technology and management issues.

You can email me at dhfreedman(at-sign)gmail.com

(Please note:  I am not the Berkeley statistician, the Bible scholar, the lawyer, the newsletter writer, the racehorse owner, the blacksmith, the gag-writer, nor any of the other fine people who share the name David Freedman.)