Category: Commentary
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It is no secret that AI is currently a hot subject – in politics, law and, of course, in investing. The idea here is right: this new technology may well revolutionize business after business and not paying attention to it would be folly. But there is an interesting question sitting…
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One of the core criticisms of platforms is that they have become far too powerful. While this is more of a throw-away comment, it is interesting to examine it up close to see if it can be turned into a hypothesis and tested – and what I am most interested…
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In 1995 Wired nestor Kevin Kelly and Kirk Sale entered into a bet that society would have collapsed in 2020 – and that this collapse would be evident across three dimensions: economic, climate and social – the dollar would be worthless, we would live in a climate disaster and there…
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This paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is an interesting signal for determining what happens to the economy post-pandemic. It shows a sharp recovery in the starting of new businesses – and when compared to the Great recession this really is evidence of resilience – but! – and…
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In what has become the accepted wisdom, income does not increase your happiness over some level – usually at around 75000 USD / year. But in a recent paper on PNAS that claim was shown to be false…or was it? The debate that has been raging about the paper since…
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The stagnation hypothesis, the idea that we have seen steady decline across science and technology over the last 50 years or so is increasingly gaining ground and becoming mainstream: Thiel, along with economists such as Tyler Cowen (The Great Stagnation) and Robert Gordon (The Rise and Fall of American Growth),…
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This time, Richard Allan discusses the Arab Spring, what we have learned as a society and how the Arab Spring might play out today. It is an interesting discussion, and Richard was close to the whole thing in a way that makes it really worthwhile to hear him think through…
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As President Joe Biden now takes on the presidency he is facing a lot of substantive challenges, but he also faces an interesting stylistic one – and that is how he communicates. We seem to be back to press-briefings and less of the tweeting that the former president excelled in…
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Wikipedia celebrates its 20th birthday and there are a lot of interesting articles out there about the wonderful and weird phenomenon that wikipedians have created and are curating. Here are a few of the perhaps less well-known “No Rest for the Wiki: The free encyclopedia is one of the last…
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In diets we all realize that what matters is what we do every day. The food we eat, the exercise we take and then the overall physical activity levels we manage to sustain. Our weight is a direct consequence of our habits. The same naturally holds for our democracy. What…