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How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuck
Over the past few decades, an astonishing pattern has taken place: Americans no longer migrate. From a peak of roughly one third of the country moving cities in a single year, today, migration rates …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
What America can learn from the rebooting of Estonia
Estonia is a nation of 1.3 million people, situated in a dangerous neighborhood on the Baltic Sea. It gained its independence early in the 20th century, only for the Soviets to take the country by fo…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The relevant axis of political conflict is change versus stasis
Abundance has become the word of the year in politics, led by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book and a slew of articles and podcasts trailing in its wake. Everyone loves growth and prosperity of co…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Samuel Arbesman on his new book, The Magic of Code
It’s not every day that we get to fete the launch of a new book by one of our colleagues at Lux Capital, so today is a very special day. Lux’s scientist-in-residence, Sam Arbesman, just published his…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Can we ever defend against agricultural warfare?
Food is one of the great bedrocks of human existence. Given its primacy to survival, it has also increasingly become a locus for conflict, either due to famine or as an exploitable vulnerability of e…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
For America, is big or open best for AI models?
Since the launch of Project Stargate by OpenAI and the debut of DeepSeek’s V3 model, there has been a raging debate in global AI circles: what’s the balance between openness and scale when it comes t…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
It’s really hard to get DC to understand Silicon Valley
The U.S. Congress and the executive branch have an extraordinary level of influence over all aspects of business. Yet, as businesses have become ever more complex, the gap in knowledge between legisl…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Remembering Daniel Kahneman on optimism and self-confidence (Part 2)
Last week, we recirculated one of my favorite episodes in the entire archive, our May 2022 lunch debate on risk, bias and decision-making with Nobel Prize Winner Danny Kahneman, World Series of Poker…
Published on 4 months ago
How to turn around America’s tech-industrial decline, now
Reindustrialization has been a persistent theme in Silicon Valley circles the past few years, and now it’s having its moment in the sun in Washington DC too. More and more policymakers, legislators a…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Remembering Daniel Kahneman on Risk, Bias and Decision-Making (Part 1)
This is a big week for us, since we officially re-launched the newsletter on our gorgeous new web address Riskgaming.com, which we are now hosting on Substack. You’ll find all of our archives there, …
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago