Published Articles
All articles from this personal site as well as other locations like "Securities" by Lux Capital and TechCrunch.
Below, check out my 2022 articles.
To see articles from prior years, click through to 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013 and prior pages.
2022
October
- 2022-10-01: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Sisyphean maintenance (Lux Capital)
September
- 2022-09-30: Perhaps our greatest achievement is not being present (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-27: Web3 is so far behind in terms of reliability and security (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-25: Can we even try to explain what’s happening right now? (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-24: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Omnivorous explanations (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-21: How to recapitalize America’s bloated defense industrial base (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-18: Uncle Sam versus Mother Nature and the future of security (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-17: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Warming hyperthreat (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-16: The utopian visions of Stanford’s generations of entrepreneurs (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-11: The in”Securities” of corporate leadership (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-10: The geopolitics and digital future of agricultural commodities (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-10: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Corporate insecurities (Lux Capital)
- 2022-09-03: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Laborious Iranians (Lux Capital)
August
- 2022-08-27: An atomistic model of independent thinking (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-27: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Atomistic literacy (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-23: Reputations are always a trailing indicator of truth (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-21: Where does reputation end and the truth begin? (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-20: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Truth and reputations (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-17: Crypto and incentive design with MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab’s Christian Catalini (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-13: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Remains of the day (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-07: Finding wisdom within scientific fraud (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-06: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Fabricated knowledge (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-03: VC 101: the denominator effect (Lux Capital)
- 2022-08-01: How new communities are propelling the future of tech + bio (Lux Capital)
July
- 2022-07-30: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Intel’s Malaise (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-25: Maybe the world is effing amazing and I am just reading the wrong things (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-24: Uncertain disasters vs. risky disasters (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-23: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Uncertain risk (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-17: James Webb Space Telescope and a definitive achievement of the human intellect (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-16: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Scientific sublime (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-15: The United States has never won a conflict with the hardware that it had going into it (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-10: The new apex of “Entropic Apex” (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-09: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Dissonant loops (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-02: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Independence (Lux Capital)
- 2022-07-02: Shoving the rocket into space with your bare hands (Lux Capital)
June
- 2022-06-26: The need for vaporware skepticism (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-25: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Vaporware skepticism (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-25: Vaporware skepticism (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-19: National security and the decline of the VC exit (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-18: “Securities” by Lux Capital: National security and VC exits (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-18: Lazy tech analogies (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-14: Marginal Stupidity (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-14: Marginal stupidity, decadence, and more writing (Homepage)
- 2022-06-12: The marginal returns of information (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-11: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Marginal stupidity (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-11: The ESG Mirage (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-09: Is “decadence” even a useful concept? (Homepage)
- 2022-06-07: The subplots of China (Homepage)
- 2022-06-05: The ESG Mirage (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-04: Jonathan Haidt on how tech can change social media and save democracy (Part 2) (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-04: “Securities” by Lux Capital: The ESG Mirage (Lux Capital)
- 2022-06-04: Jonathan Haidt on American structural stupidity and the post-Babel world (Part 1) (Lux Capital)
May
- 2022-05-28: “Securities” by Lux Capital: In Memoriam (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-26: Speculative fiction is a prism to understand people (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-22: The rise of Multiple Valuations Syndrome (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-21: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Multiple Valuations Syndrome (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-21: Will Malthus or human ingenuity win out in these chaotic times? (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-17: If you’re not solving for pain, then what the hell are you doing? (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-14: Risk, Bias and Decision Making: Overcoming the odds (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-14: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Risky decisions (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-14: Risk, Bias and Decision Making: Changing one’s mind (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-14: Risk, Bias and Decision Making: Premortem (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-14: Risk, Bias and Decision Making: Hot hands (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-11: How disposable is Miami? (Homepage)
- 2022-05-09: The emoji helping the machine learning community learn faster (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-07: “Securities” by Lux Capital: The remains of the day (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-07: Shredding the LP asset management playbook with Scott Wilson, CIO of Washington University in St. Louis (Lux Capital)
- 2022-05-01: How permanent should software be? (Lux Capital)
April
- 2022-04-30: The future of biotech is moving from bench to beach (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-30: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Software ephemerality (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-24: Eastern winds of media (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-23: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Easternization of media (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-16: “Securities” by Lux Capital: The future of CT scanning (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-16: Redlines for diplomacy and business with former USSOCOM commander Tony “T2” Thomas (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-13: Lumafield is CT scanning for the industrial manufacturing masses (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-10: The Manichaean rainbow (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-09: “Securities” by Lux Capital: The Manichaean rainbow (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-09: The VC Power Law with CFR senior fellow Sebastian Mallaby (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-05: Is web3 really just looking for Web 2.5? (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-02: Josh Wolfe on “There will be chaos, and that chaos will be caused by people” (Lux Capital)
- 2022-04-02: “Securities” by Lux Capital: “If you build it, they will come.” (Lux Capital)
March
- 2022-03-31: Rethinking the science of science funding with Sam Arbesman (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-31: No longer tolerating the decline of American industry (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-29: A cloaking device for everyone (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-29: Investing in capabilities, not markets (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-26: “Securities” by Lux Capital: “We’re going to try to stop him” (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-25: Silicon Valley’s dependence on American foreign policy (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-22: Episode 0: A Pod is Born, Alife is Funded, and A Decade is Defined (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-20: AI, dual-use medicine, and bioweapons (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-19: “Securities” by Lux Capital: AI, dual-use medicine, and bioweapons (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-13: Antitrust and the future of shareholders (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-12: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Equity, ownership and crypto (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-08: On upgrading the securities of women globally (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-06: Legalizing gambling, everywhere, all the time (Lux Capital)
- 2022-03-05: “Securities” by Lux Capital: America’s gambling fetish (Lux Capital)
February
- 2022-02-26: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Unspeakable evil (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-26: Unspeakable Evil (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-20: Consensus and how experiments and societies end (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-19: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Consensus functions (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-16: The complex interactions between antitrust and national security (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-13: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Fission today, fusion tomorrow (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-13: Two developments in nuclear fission and fusion technology (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-13: An arm, a stamp, and an icon of China joint ventures (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-07: People, not projects, but what about scientific tools? (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-06: The Olympian struggle against “vaporware China economic policy” (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-05: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Deextinction of taste (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-02: The U.S. nuclear option on apps and data (Lux Capital)
- 2022-02-01: The West’s self-defeating technological sovereignty (Lux Capital)
January
- 2022-01-30: A different direction on chips (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-29: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Defense Fordism (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-29: The autonomous war pivot (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-23: Lab-grown babies, or for womb does the bell toll? (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-22: “Securities” by Lux Capital: Lab-grown babies (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-20: The robot revolution will be banked (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-15: Can the delocalization and deglobalization of American news ever be undone? (Homepage)
- 2022-01-15: “Securities” by Lux Capital: American Civil War 2.0 (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-11: Crypto, VR, and the dangers of accelerated tech adoption curves (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-10: The inevitable re-opening of late-stage startup finance (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-08: A 2021 Retrospective from Danny Crichton (Homepage)
- 2022-01-08: Best Articles I Read (2021 Edition) (Homepage)
- 2022-01-08: Lux Recommends is now "Securities" by Lux Capital (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-07: “Securities” for the 21st Century (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-06: An Eikon of instrumental progress (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-04: Finally, patent troll forum shopping may finally be on its way out (Lux Capital)
- 2022-01-03: Best Books I Read (2021 Edition), plus several books that disappointed (Homepage)
- 2022-01-03: Best Articles I Wrote (2021 Edition) (Homepage)