Published Articles
All articles from this personal site as well as other locations like "Securities" by Lux Capital and TechCrunch.
Below, check out my 2024 articles.
To see articles from prior years, click through to 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013 and prior pages.
2024
July
- 2024-07-20: Riskgaming: The British Invasion Edition (Lux Capital)
- 2024-07-19: The Orthogonal Bet: The Quest to Find the Poetic Web (Lux Capital)
- 2024-07-17: Pivoting to the Expert Economy (Lux Capital)
- 2024-07-13: Riskgaming: America’s mollycoddled industries (Lux Capital)
- 2024-07-12: The Orthogonal Bet: What AI Can Learn from Human Cognition (Lux Capital)
- 2024-07-10: Can we be optimistic about America’s future? (Lux Capital)
- 2024-07-06: Riskgaming: America’s 248th (Lux Capital)
- 2024-07-05: The Orthogonal Bet: Unveiling the Complexity of Life: A Conversation with Philip Ball on ‘How Life Works' (Lux Capital)
- 2024-07-03: “The commons are under attack” from TikTok and subsea cables to data centers and elections (Lux Capital)
June
- 2024-06-29: Riskgaming: America’s reindustrialization dilemma (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-28: The Orthogonal Bet: How to fund R&D that is for the public good? (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-25: Is AI killing journalism? Pitchforks, Perplexity and reporters yelling “Boo!” (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-22: Riskgaming: Protecting America’s Economic Security (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-21: The Orthogonal Bet: SimCity, Maxis and the ambitious modeling of everything (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-15: Riskgaming: AI and the Death of Human Languages (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-14: Why high-throughput bio research needs better tools immediately (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-08: Riskgaming: The closing door to global tech riches (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-07: The Orthogonal Bet: Novelist Robin Sloan’s Love for Books with Maps on the First Page (Lux Capital)
- 2024-06-01: Riskgaming: Remains of the Day (June 1, 2024) (Lux Capital)
May
- 2024-05-31: How Applied Intuition used the Valley’s hardest lessons to upgrade automotive with autonomy (Lux Capital)
- 2024-05-24: Orthogonal Bet: A technology vibe shift from utopian Star Trek to absurdist Douglas Adams? (Lux Capital)
- 2024-05-18: Riskgaming: Strait to Taiwan (Lux Capital)
- 2024-05-17: The soon-to-be-solved protein problem that will accelerate drug discovery (Lux Capital)
- 2024-05-11: Riskgaming: Napa Nights (Lux Capital)
- 2024-05-04: Riskgaming: Sacrifice and the Future of America (Lux Capital)
- 2024-05-03: Margaret Mead and the psychedelic community that theorized AI (Lux Capital)
April
- 2024-04-27: Riskgaming: The Great Talent Dividend and NYC’s AI Opportunity (Lux Capital)
- 2024-04-26: The nightmare specter of designer bioweapons and the people trying to stop them (Lux Capital)
- 2024-04-20: Riskgaming: Launching Lux Capital’s boldest initiative yet (Lux Capital)
- 2024-04-16: Lux and the Art of Startup Maintenance (Lux Capital)
- 2024-04-13: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Pacific Stratagems (Lux Capital)
- 2024-04-12: The Zone of Totality with Sam Arbesman (Lux Capital)
- 2024-04-06: “Securities” by Lux Capital: brAIn drAIn (Lux Capital)
March
- 2024-03-30: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Information Combustion (Lux Capital)
- 2024-03-23: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Democratizing WMD (Lux Capital)
- 2024-03-16: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Sigma Narratives (Lux Capital)
- 2024-03-15: Biology is becoming engineering and not just science (Lux Capital)
- 2024-03-08: “Securities” by Lux Capital: TikTok Tantrum (Lux Capital)
- 2024-03-07: The three revolutions in astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial life (Lux Capital)
February
- 2024-02-24: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Pivotal Pivots (Lux Capital)
- 2024-02-21: “I am basically a cosmic Fluke” and the chaos of science, policy, and human narratives (Lux Capital)
- 2024-02-17: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Sakana, Subways, and Share Buybacks (Lux Capital)
- 2024-02-14: How an anonymous blog during the neural network winter led to Japan’s national AI champion (Lux Capital)
- 2024-02-10: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Impoverished Valuations (Lux Capital)
- 2024-02-08: The most wasteful infrastructure megaproject that wasn’t (Lux Capital)
- 2024-02-03: “Securities” by Lux Capital: TechCrunch+ Termination (Lux Capital)
- 2024-02-02: The stove hasn’t changed in decades. It’s time to upgrade. (Lux Capital)
January
- 2024-01-27: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Human Martians (Lux Capital)
- 2024-01-24: Astronauts all lie, but the biggest lie is that we will colonize Mars (Zach Weinersmith, Part 1 of 2) (Lux Capital)
- 2024-01-24: Why a Mars settlement could never be a libertarian paradise (Zach Weinersmith, Part 2 of 2) (Lux Capital)
- 2024-01-20: “Securities” by Lux Capital: DC, Japan, and Space (Lux Capital)
- 2024-01-18: DC to Silicon Valley: Drop Dead (City Journal)
- 2024-01-17: How Impulse Space’s Helios will democratize access to Earth’s farthest orbits (Lux Capital)
- 2024-01-16: Why Tokyo’s Sakana AI is pioneering a new vanguard of national AI foundation models (Lux Capital)
- 2024-01-13: “Securities” by Lux Capital: MLK Jr. Memorial (Lux Capital)
- 2024-01-06: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Hochul Hokum (Lux Capital)