Announcing Progress Conference 2026
Published on April 20, 2026 6:24 PM GMTThis is a linkpost for https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/announcing-progress-conference-2026Announcing the third annual Progress Conference! The pace of...
View ArticleProgress for progressives
Published on February 3, 2026 10:52 PM GMTI was invited to speak at the Festival of Progressive Abundance, a conference to rally around “abundance” as a new direction for the political left. This is a...
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Links and short notes, 2026-01-26
Published on February 3, 2026 9:40 PM GMTSorry for the late cross-post. Once again it’s been too long and this digest is too big. Feel free to skim and skip around, guilt-free, I give you permission. I...
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No silver bullet: Lessons about how to create safety from the history of fire
Published on January 26, 2026 10:17 PM GMTReality is a dangerous place. From the dawn of humanity we have faced the hazards of nature: fire, flood, disease, famine. Better technology and infrastructure...
View ArticleHow to tame a complex system
Published on January 5, 2026 7:00 PM GMTI get a lot of pushback to the idea that humanity can “master” nature. Nature is a complex system, I am told, and therefore unpredictable, uncontrollable,...
View ArticleMy 2025 in review
Published on December 31, 2025 2:46 PM GMTEveryone loves writing annual letters these days. It’s the thing. (I blame Dan Wang.)So here’s mine. At least I can say I’ve been doing it for as long as Dan:...
View ArticleThe Techno-Humanist Manifesto, wrapup and publishing announcement
Published on December 29, 2025 6:51 PM GMTMy essay series The Techno-Humanist Manifesto concluded in October. You can read the whole thing here.“Techno-humanism” is my philosophy of progress, and THM...
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Links and short notes, 2025-12-19
Published on December 19, 2025 7:43 PM GMTThe links digest is back, baby!I got so busy writing The Techno-Humanist Manifesto this year that after May I stopped doing the links digest and my monthly...
View ArticleIn defense of slop
Published on December 16, 2025 5:35 PM GMT“Slop” is Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year:We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial...
View ArticleAnnouncing Progress in Medicine, a high school summer career exploration program
Published on December 9, 2025 4:25 PM GMTStarting today, high school students can apply to Progress in Medicine, a new program by the Roots of Progress Institute.What the Progress in Medicine program...
View ArticleShake Brains First
Published on October 13, 2025 1:53 PM GMTSome people are very interested in neurotechnology, e.g. BCIs, neuromodulation through transcranial direct current stimulation/pulsed ultrasound/magnetic...
View ArticleOpen Philanthropy’s Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Team Is Hiring and...
Published on October 3, 2025 8:20 PM GMTThe Open Philanthropy Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness (BPP) team is hiring and is also looking for promising new grantees! The BPP team's focus is on...
View ArticleLaunching the $10,000 Existential Hope Meme Prize
Published on September 25, 2025 8:27 AM GMTMetaphors and short explanations have a large influence on how we think and talk about the future. Some examples are: AGI is like nukes, out-of-control race...
View ArticleSeeking a freelance project manager to help me publish and launch my book
Published on July 29, 2025 6:03 PM GMTSeeking a freelance project manager to help me publish and launch my book, The Techno-Humanist Manifesto.I have a book deal with a major academic publisher and a...
View ArticleJoin Pathways to Progress's Book Discussion on Vannevar Bush's Pieces of the...
Published on July 1, 2025 8:32 PM GMTWe're excited to announce our July book discussion featuring Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush with a foreword from Ben Reinhardt. Pathways to Progress is a...
View Article30+ Innovation Books
Published on June 23, 2025 7:07 PM GMTNote: this is a crosspost from my Substack, Positive Sum. I'm spending the next six months reading 30+ books about innovation policy, trying to understand a...
View ArticleMore speakers and other updates for Progress Conference 2025
Published on June 23, 2025 6:30 PM GMTThis is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/more-great-speakers-join-progress-conference-2025/Progress Conference 2025 is on track to once again be a main...
View ArticleThe Roots of Progress wants your stories about the AI frontier
Published on June 6, 2025 10:53 PM GMTThe Roots of Progress Institute is seeking to commission stories for a new article series, “Intelligence Age,” on future applications of AI.These will be reported...
View ArticleLinks and short notes, 2025-05-31: Fellowship deadline tomorrow, Edge...
Published on May 31, 2025 3:21 PM GMTIt’s been way too long since the last links digest, which means I have way too much to catch up on. I had to cut many interesting bits to get this one out the...
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Insurance: Why do we feel so powerless as patients?
Published on May 27, 2025 12:28 AM GMTSocial media exploded with pent-up frustrations, swirling like an inexhaustible tornado, after the UnitedHealthcare tragedy. Why does health insurance produce such...
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