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My 2025 SMPA Commencement Address
This is GWU’s commencement weekend.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Phantom-Friend-Future
Champagne for my real friends; real pain for my sham friends (amirite?)
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Book Review: "More Everything Forever"
A book that takes Silicon Valley's unserious ideas seriously, and then delightfully tears them apart.
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The Trump Administration is Coming for ActBlue.
File under: "will the United States continue to hold free and fair elections?"
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"Abundance" is a book for an alternate timeline
There are many good ideas in Klein and Thompson's book, but no solutions to the crisis we now face.
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Welcome to the Resistance, Bret Stephens.
The elite opinion vibe shift is underway.
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How would an old school techno-optimist make sense of the Trump administration?
<This is me venting.> I just need to vent for a moment.
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The Future, Now and Then
The Future, Now and Then
A newsletter that mixes insights from the history of the digital future (#WIREDarchive) with observations and rants about the state of politics today. Basically a blog for your inbox.
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