Society

The rise of machine writing is a great opportunity for literature.

Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened . The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush ...

Revisiting "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology” (1992) by Neil Postman.

Matthew Butterick

A new report from Credit Suisse has found that individuals with assets worth more than $50 million, referred to as “ultra-high-net-worth” (UHNW) individuals, spiked to a record high last year.  Cre…

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

pI've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest frie...

For $100, I bought bric-a-brac that explains a nation.

What the most powerful model yet teaches us about the future of knowledge work

This desire to reduce liberalism to economic liberalism is taken to its extreme in the dark enlightenment.

Micro teams and rotation can strengthen collaboration, spread expertise and build resilient SRE cultures across teams.

Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They …

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"Musk’s real genius lies in mythmaking."

Clean energy is being reshaped by cross-industry thinkers, from aerospace engineers to banking boffins, and beyond

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Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me […]

I’m traveling today – consider this brief post a placeholder of sorts. I’ve long railed against the privatization of public space, and the hidden regulation inherent in the submis…

Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab

Awareness of the relationality of all being is a response to the planet in crisis.