2022
- Ideas
- The Anti-Promethean Backlash
- Listening speaks to our intuition while reading promotes analytic thought
- Sketches of Beauty, Shades of Remoteness
- On Practical Religion, Self-Improvement and Why Sermons Don’t Work
- Open Borders: A Review of Bryan Caplan’s Book
- The Fog of Change
- Micromort: A Standard Unit of Measure For Risk
- Predictions for 2050
- Progress & Science
- Value Created vs. Value Extracted
- Hispaniola’s Great Divergence: Why are Haiti and the DR so different?
- Science as a source of social alpha
- Indonesia: The most amazing development story on Earth?
- Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital
- When Extreme Necessity is the Mother of Invention
- Progress, humanism, agency
- Funding Models and Innovation
- Sustainability & Climate
- The finite pool of worry
- Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View
- Methane hunters: what explains the surge in the potent greenhouse gas?
- The last design you’ll ever make
- Business
- Tokyu Hands Reborn as ‘Hands.’ A Closer Look at Nendo’s Rebranding
- Psychology
- Erikson’s Stages of Development
- Governance & Politics
- Britain’s ‘emerging market’ crisis
- Nestlé, Godiva and Nutella
- The fall of Sri Lanka
- An Interview with Pankaj Mishra
- The Human Cost of Normalizing Assad
- Rivalry between America and China will shape the post-covid world
- Crypto
- Axie Infinity’s vision of a “play-to-earn” video game
- Education & Learning
- Christopher Alexander’s architecture for learning
- Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?
2021
- Governance & Politics:
- The Trouble with the View from Above
- Bashar al-Assad’s Unlikely Comeback
- Climate:
- Stripe Is Kick Starting Market for Carbon Removal
- Development:
- Th economic growth necessary to reduce global poverty
- National Development Delivers
- Innovation:
- What We Learned Doing Fast Grants
- Remote Work and the Future of Innovation
- Can a new approach to funding scientific research unlock innovation?
- Progress:
- How does progress happen?
- What are the returns to R&D?
- Education & Learning
- The New American University
- Cognitive Load, Emotion and Buoyancy
- Memories are made of this
- Organisational Culture:
- Where Do Pro-Social Institutions Come From?
- Building Products at Stripe
- Business:
- 1,000 True Fans
- Invisible asymptotes
- Idea Generation
- Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?
- Technology:
- Moderation in Infrastructure
- Anthropology:
- Rules of Thumb and Adaptive Rationality
- Ideas:
- Upside decay
- Truth, Status, and Tribes
- The importance trap
- Familiarity and Belonging
- Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
- Literature:
- Inside the Whale
Poetry
- Jorge Luis Borges: For a Version of I Ching
- Gibran Khalil Gibran: On Work
- Eavan Boland: The Emigrant Irish
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Go to the Limits of Your Longing
- Charles Baudelaire: The Albatross
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