Role ModelsSociety today suffers from a crisis of role models. In an era dominated by consumer-driven social applications and a tech industry that…Mar 10Mar 10
Notes on Startups: Pieter Levels & Lex FriedmanPieter Levels’ conversation with Lex Friedman was a refreshingly pragmatic take on building and sustaining online businesses. In a startup…Mar 7Mar 7
Book Review: The Technological Republic — Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by…Alex Karp’s The Technological Republic serves as both a call to arms for Silicon Valley and a broader appeal for a renewed national project…Mar 5Mar 5
Digitally Enabled Utopia or Technofeudalism?In 2022, Balaji Srinivasan published The Network State: How to Start a New Country, a book proposing that the future of governance may not…Mar 5Mar 5
In Defense of the Drunk CigA wise man once said “drunk cigs don’t count.” And who am I to argue? The occasional cigarette, enjoyed exclusively in the twilight hours…Mar 32Mar 32
Book Review: Overthrow — America’s Century of Regime Change by Stephen KinzerStephen Kinzer’s Overthrow is a necessary book for understanding how the modern world has been shaped — not by diplomacy or democracy, but…Feb 22Feb 22
Book Review: Doppelgänger — A Trip Into The Mirror World by Naomi KleinNaomi Klein’s Doppelgänger is a book about mirror worlds, digital doubles, and the strange experience of being mistaken for someone who is…Feb 20Feb 20
Book Review: The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley RindsbergAshley Rindsberg’s The Gray Lady Winked is, in many ways, a direct critique — some might say a hit piece — on The New York Times. The book…Feb 201Feb 201
Book Review: The Rape of the Mind by Joost MeerloThe Rape of the Mind, published in 1956, examines how propaganda and totalitarianism operate. Although the book is decades old, many of its…Feb 202Feb 202
