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In Part 1, I laid out the simmer scenario as an alternative to explosion, stagnation in collapse, in which growth slows down sufficiently to remain…

Jul 29

An alternative to explosion, stagnation, and collapse

Jul 28

Why there will be many more effective altruist billionaires

Jun 30

Girard at Jamestown, VC bubbles, Elon’s ambition, big tech R&D as F1 cars, med-school mania, and the entrepreneurial middle class.

Apr 20

An interesting pattern recurs across the career of great scientists: an annus mirabilis (miracle year) in which they make multiple, seemingly…

Apr 14

10x engineers, tech bubbles, and the PayPal mafia

Apr 12

I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John…

Mar 20

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