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What the future looks like from here.
Trumpism won't last forever. But people are going to suffer, and it will take decades to recover.
Nov 6, 2024 • 
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What the future looks like from here.
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Elon Musk and the Infinite Rebuy
Walter Isaacson tried to write a "Great Man" biography of the rockets-and-cars genius. That's not an effective way to understand Elon Musk.
Sep 24, 2023 • 
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What Elon Musk's favorite game tells us about him
A review, of sorts, of Polytopia.
May 5, 2024 • 
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Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?
On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"
Oct 18, 2023 • 
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On Substack Nazis, laissez-faire tech regulation, and mouse-poop-in-cereal-boxes
My advisor in college was named Paul Dawson.
Dec 14, 2023 • 
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On Substack Nazis, laissez-faire tech regulation, and mouse-poop-in-cereal-boxes
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The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through.
A review of Balaji Srinivasan's book, The Network State.
Feb 16 • 
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The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through.
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How long does Twitter have left?
I give it six months before bankruptcy
Mar 8, 2023 • 
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How long does Twitter have left?
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Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
"Founder Mode" is such garbage.
Sep 13, 2024 • 
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Someone Else's Problem
Ultimately, it just would have been too inconvenient to deal with the January 6th attack.
Jan 6 • 
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Bitcoin is worth $100,000. It still doesn't have a single legitimate use case
It's speculation all the way down
Dec 6, 2024 • 
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The only thing university administrators had to do was NOTHING.
They had one job. How did they mess it up so badly?
Apr 26, 2024 • 
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The only thing university administrators had to do was NOTHING.
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On Generative AI and Satisficing
Some thoughts on what these new tools are good for.
May 9, 2023 • 
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