Archive - Is the future really getting worse? Let's find out.

Who Decides Which Problems Are Worth Solving?

Steve Strogatz on the hammer, the oracle, and why AI still needs human taste.

Oct 10

AI Can Solve Math. But Can It Ask a Good Question? | Steven Strogatz

Listen now (66 mins) | Can AI solve mathematics without understanding it?

Oct 10

1:05:53

The $67 Trillion Unlock

How AI agents, tokenization and crypto could make existing wealth far easier to put to work

Oct 4

September 2026

Setbacks Are Events. Progress Is a Process.

What two years of Exploring Prosperity have taught me about why progress happens and why we so often fail to see it.

Sep 26

AI Extinction Is the Wrong Test

AI can cause serious harm without ending the world and confusing the two makes it harder to build the right defenses.

Sep 17

As Fast as Your Willpower

Ram Ahluwalia on how AI could expand entrepreneurship and create prosperity our employment statistics miss

Sep 13

Hugging Face: Eight Questions Before You Believe Either Side

Separating what the incident demonstrated from what people are inferring from it

Sep 6

August 2026

Science Needs Disruption. Scientists Need Stability.

The White House has produced a serious plan for reform while failing to confront the uncertainty created by its own actions.

Aug 29

Bitcoin Treasury Companies: The Rise of Digital Credit | Tim Kotzman

Listen now | Bitcoin treasury companies were easy to launch when Bitcoin was rising.

Aug 24

1:18:23

Bitcoin's 30% Hurdle

Inside the shift from buying Bitcoin to financing it- a conversation with Tim Kotzman

Aug 22

What Should a University Produce?

Higher education’s longstanding failures meet the pressures of AI

Aug 18

The Jobs AI Destroys and the Ones We Can't See Yet

What one of America's leading financial-services lawyers sees from inside a profession being transformed by AI

Aug 12

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