Danny Crichton

All articles from this personal site as well as other locations like Riskgaming by Lux Capital and TechCrunch.

Below, check out my 2025 articles.

To see articles from prior years, click through to 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013 and prior pages.

2025

June

• 2025-06-27: What America can learn from the rebooting of Estonia (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-27: AI weather, Campbell's soup, and quirks (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-25: Revisiting Jonathan Haidt on how tech can change social media and save democracy (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-24: We’re finally predicting the weather accurately (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-20: The relevant axis of political conflict is change versus stasis (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-20: Funding Palooza, Knausgård, New York, FEMA, Hyrule (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-18: Revisiting Jonathan Haidt on American structural stupidity and the post-Babel world (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-17: Uncle Sam is a terrible board member (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-13: The Government Has Your Data—and That’s a Good Thing (City Journal)
• 2025-06-13: Israel’s assault was bravura without bravado (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-11: Samuel Arbesman on his new book, The Magic of Code (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-11: Book talk: The Magic of Code (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-10: The new alchemy of computer coding (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-06: Pain killers, Star Trek, scopes (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-06: Can we ever defend against agricultural warfare? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-04: For America, is big or open best for AI models? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-06-03: Yes, I want Palantir to munch my public data (Lux Capital)

May

• 2025-05-30: For America, is big or open best for AI models? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-30: Mutations, snake bites, nuclear energy (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-28: Can we ever defend against agricultural warfare? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-27: Has China Already Won? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-23: Sycophantic AI, battery tech, and AI gaming (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-23: It’s really hard to get DC to understand Silicon Valley (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-21: How can we make the internet fun again? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-20: Tech is turning the Middle East into a pivotal region (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-16: Brain implants, friction, LegoGPT (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-16: Remembering Daniel Kahneman on optimism and self-confidence (Part 2) (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-14: Europe needs national champions, now (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-13: Riskgaming in DC, Pittsburgh, London, NYC… (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-09: Lux Science Helpline, meat sacks, A.I. philosophers… (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-08: How to turn around America’s tech-industrial decline, now (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-07: Kahneman, Duke and Mauboussin on optimism bias and self-confidence (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-02: Masochism in bioscience, sci-tech diplomacy, human decomposition … (Lux Capital)
• 2025-05-01: Waltz fired, Lutnick struggles at tech’s DC pageant (Lux Capital)

April

• 2025-04-30: Remembering Daniel Kahneman on risk, bias, and decision-making (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-30: Remembering Daniel Kahneman on Risk, Bias and Decision-Making (Part 1) (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-28: Riskgaming against a world on fire: A manifesto, of sorts (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-25: Europe needs national champions, now (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-19: Riskgaming: The Pessimistic Turn in Reindustrialization (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-19: How can we make the internet fun again? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-12: Riskgaming: Our Friends in the 51st State (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-12: Making shoes isn’t the right strategy (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-05: Riskgaming: The implacable force against Abundance (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-04: The hyper-competition of U.S.-China trade relations (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-03: Could Brexit and now U.S. Tariffs ever work? Yes, but not this way… (Lux Capital)
• 2025-04-01: OpenAI capitulates on open-source models (Lux Capital)

March

• 2025-03-29: Riskgaming: Is Plagiarism Dead? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-29: Riskgaming: Is Plagiarism Dead? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-28: “You can cause a lot of havoc with a cell phone and a cheap DJI drone” (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-22: Riskgaming: AI and the Future of Media (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-21: Why immersion — and not realism — is critical for wargaming (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-15: “We have an addiction to prediction” (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-15: Riskgaming: The Unreasonable Middle (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-08: Riskgaming: Isolating our interdependence (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-07: “Every system can be gamed” (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-01: Americans are an incredibly generous people (Lux Capital)
• 2025-03-01: Riskgaming: Thanks LA and DC plus USAID (Lux Capital)

February

• 2025-02-22: Riskgaming: Will reforming the FDA help or hurt biotechs? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-02-22: How America holds it all together (Lux Capital)
• 2025-02-15: Riskgaming: Join us this month! (Lux Capital)
• 2025-02-14: Luck rules our lives, so why don’t we teach more about it? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-02-08: Riskgaming: Asteroids, xeno-kidneys, planes and H5N1 (Lux Capital)
• 2025-02-07: Young DOGE Engineers Are Nothing to Fret About (City Journal)
• 2025-02-06: How Russia is bringing the cost of global sabotage to zero (Lux Capital)
• 2025-02-01: Riskgaming: Germany’s radical unlearning (Lux Capital)

January

• 2025-01-31: Can you (or DOGE) product manage the government? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-01-25: Riskgaming: Stargate’s $500B bet for AI dominance (Lux Capital)
• 2025-01-23: The on-going collapse of the global commons (Lux Capital)
• 2025-01-18: Riskgaming: Should you wait to have kids? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-01-17: Which companies will suffer with globalization’s reversal? (Lux Capital)
• 2025-01-17: In nixing deal for US Steel, Biden showed we’re not ready to rebuild our manufacturing base (New York Post)
• 2025-01-11: Riskgaming: The tragedy of national loneliness (Lux Capital)
• 2025-01-10: Why financial booms and busts are the key to our progress (Lux Capital)
• 2025-01-07: Danny Crichton: Nippon was the help America needs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• 2025-01-06: Nippon Steel and the Closing of America’s Economic Growth (RealClear)
• 2025-01-01: Best Books, Articles, Films, Theater and Games I Read, Watched and Played (2024 Edition) (Homepage)
• 2025-01-01: Best Articles I Wrote (2024 Edition) (Homepage)