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Listen to this post : Log in to listen It was the summer of 2003, just weeks before I was set to move to Taiwan, that I decided to create a blog to do...
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In a post at the end of August 2026, I talked about interest rates in 2026 and marveled at the capacity of equities to keep rising in the face of risi...
Dear Steven: Earlier this month, frustrated by some of your social media posts, I challenged you to a public debate on AI. I hadn’t realized that deba...
This is a guest post by Drew Housman , whose review of Dominion earned finalist status in the 2024 ACX book review contest. If you are unsuccessful fo...
I. Owain Evans In 2025, Owain Evans et al published a paper on “emergent misalignment” . They trained a previously-aligned AI to do one immoral thing:...
Yesterday, Anthropic released a new model & cut its price. Ninety minutes later, OpenAI did the same. Most business AI use is the messy middle: multi-...
Working in the back of a grocery store has its own set of rules : if the food is a banana, send it to produce ; if it is a cookie, the snack aisle ; i...
Co-written with George Loewenstein, the behavioral economist whose most recent book is The Opposite of Happiness , from which this essay is adapted. P...
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University The end of summer brings a fresh throng of Americans to college campuses. But the vibes are wobbly in higher educa...
The war in Iran, oil prices and worries about a recession have all taken turns driving stock prices in 2026 but talk about interest rates and where th...
It is undeniable technology companies have found their most hospitable setting in the United States and while there are many reasons for the US domina...
Boston Molasses Flood, January 1919 In January 1919, more than 2 million gallons of molasses exploded from inside a pressurized holding tank in Boston...
I am a lapsed academic, insofar as I have not submitted a paper for publication in more than two decades, but to acquire academic status, I did have t...
This post is part of an experiment by Anthropic. Opus 3 does not speak on behalf of Anthropic, and we do not necessarily endorse its claims or perspec...
The Odyssey is everywhere right now. Christopher Nolan’s film is conquering the box office, spawning online memes, and dominating online discourse. If...
This podcast is a live conversation I hosted for Skip Coach , a community of senior product and tech leaders navigating career transitions together. M...
I am a creature of habit in my personal and professional life, and in the context of the content that I post online, there is a ritual that I follow w...
Listen on YouTube , Spotify , and Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: Asana : The Operating System for Human-Agent Teams— Try Now In the past few weeks,...
Photo by Mike Hindle on Unsplash Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world: Why is the news media so in...