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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 5 months 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 5 months, 1 week 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 5 months, 2 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 5 months, 3 weeks 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 6 months 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 6 months, 1 week ago
Europe needs national champions, now
Europe faces an existential crisis. Long an innovation, technology and manufacturing hub, its greatest companies and wider industries have been hit hard by competition from American tech giants like …
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
How can we make the internet fun again?
Something is rotten in the state of the internet. Social networks that were once meant to be entertaining diversions have become riven with vituperative political combat that leaves all but the most …
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Making shoes isn’t the right strategy
The markets have massively gyrated the past few weeks as hourly pronouncements from the White House and Mar-a-Lago seize investors with terror or relieve them of stress. At the heart of the vociferou…
Published on 7 months ago
The hyper-competition of U.S.-China trade relations
With the launch of President Trump’s trade war this week, few countries are more at risk than China. Faced with a sudden and massive expansion of tariffs as well as changes to the de minimis parcel r…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago