Published Articles
All articles from this personal site as well as other locations like Securities by Lux Capital, Riskgaming by Lux Capital and TechCrunch.
Below, check out my 2026 articles.
To see articles from prior years, click through to 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013 and prior pages.
2026
July
- 2026-07-11: Alpha in the AI startup rat race (Securities)
- 2026-07-04: Happy Semiquincentennial America! (Securities)
June
- 2026-06-28: A review of Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant (Homepage)
- 2026-06-27: Career suicide, whatever it takes (Securities)
- 2026-06-19: Kim Jong Un, Negotiator Extraordinaire (Securities)
- 2026-06-13: A review of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death (Homepage)
- 2026-06-13: USG kills Anthropic Fable 5, and the future of America's software empire (Securities)
- 2026-06-12: A review of Suzy Hansen’s From Life Itself (Homepage)
- 2026-06-08: A review of C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score (Homepage)
May
- 2026-05-29: Lux Recommends #500 … and done (Riskgaming)
- 2026-05-22: Sam's top recommendations: wonder and curiosities (Riskgaming)
- 2026-05-15: Sam's top recommendations: biology and complexity (Riskgaming)
- 2026-05-08: Sam's top AI recommendations (Riskgaming)
- 2026-05-01: Consciousness, biology, Tylenol (Riskgaming)
April
- 2026-04-24: SpaceX, sponges, AI God (Riskgaming)
- 2026-04-17: Chimps, backpacks, salaries (Riskgaming)
- 2026-04-10: Anti-recommendation, AGI, social media (Riskgaming)
- 2026-04-04: Iran, data centers, Victorian AI (Riskgaming)
March
- 2026-03-27: Bernie Sanders and AOC Want to Sink the AI Economy (City Journal)
- 2026-03-27: Get out, gambling, AI and democracy (Riskgaming)
- 2026-03-26: The anodyne bonhomie of Hill and Valley will soon be a relic (Securities)
- 2026-03-24: The White House’s AI Strategy Is Too Little, Too Late (City Journal)
- 2026-03-23: Trump’s AI framework concedes the backlash is real (Securities)
- 2026-03-20: The root of evil, pizza, national "service" (Riskgaming)
- 2026-03-18: GPT-5.4 plays Riskgaming like Machiavelli (Securities)
- 2026-03-17: Sign up for NYC Riskgaming this Thursday plus DC on 3/25 (Riskgaming)
- 2026-03-16: AI super persuasion is not an existential risk (Securities)
- 2026-03-13: Universities, television vs. AI, negativity bias (Riskgaming)
- 2026-03-12: Iran is a masterstroke to stop the AI backlash (Securities)
- 2026-03-07: Hyperloops, hyper-readers, and AI science (Riskgaming)
February
- 2026-02-27: Citrini comments, prediction markets, super immunity (Riskgaming)
- 2026-02-26: Trouncing career regret with famed VC Bill Gurley (Riskgaming)
- 2026-02-25: Trouncing career regret with famed VC Bill Gurley (Riskgaming)
- 2026-02-24: Are social sciences dead in the agentic age? (Securities)
- 2026-02-20: Grand strategy, mosquitos, AI and the left (Riskgaming)
- 2026-02-13: Ready for war, gray zones, AI in science (Riskgaming)
- 2026-02-06: LBJ, Claude's emotions, Caesar (Riskgaming)
January
- 2026-01-30: Coding agents, gambling, cooking (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-28: Can sports betting overthrow Iran? (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-23: Power politics, hiring freeze, boxing (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-22: Play Riskgaming in NYC on 2/12 (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-21: The risks no one talks about (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-16: Chinese AI, post-apocalyptic maps, da Vinci's DNA (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-15: Forget Founder Mode, We’re All in Editor Mode Now (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-14: What are the origins of efficiency? (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-09: The long game of American reindustrialization (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-09: Canalization, AI in Space, Lego (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-08: Adversarial ambiguity and Polymarket (Securities)
- 2026-01-07: How to be a straddle power (Securities)
- 2026-01-07: The long game of American reindustrialization (Riskgaming)
- 2026-01-06: Our “just take it” era (Securities)