Zander untangles the complexities of culture and commerce into well-scrubbed prose. He is the Strategy Director of Abbreviated Projects, the strategic design studio he founded with Simon Abranowicz. Zander has published essays in Travel + Leisure, Cabana Magazine, Elle Decor, Kennedy, Are.na Annual, Heatmap, Kathimerini, Elite Traveler, and Upstate Diary, illustrations in Esquire, and three books with photographer William Abranowicz, the latest being Country Life: Homes of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley. Buzzcut, his newsletter, covers travel, style, history, and nature. As Senior Strategist at Athletics from 2017 to 2022, he defined strategies, identities, and voices for IBM, Samsung, Major League Soccer, and others.