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2025 letteroriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026

2025

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Futureoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2025

2024

2023 letteroriginal ↗
23 Jan 2024

2023

China notes, July ’23: on technological momentumoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2023
2022 letteroriginal ↗
4 Mar 2023

2022

2021 letteroriginal ↗
1 Jan 2022

2021

2020 letteroriginal ↗
1 Jan 2021

2020

Covid Observations from Beijing, March 11original ↗
11 Mar 2020
2019 letteroriginal ↗
1 Jan 2020

2019

2018 letteroriginal ↗
1 Jan 2019

2018

How Technology Grows (a restatement of definite optimism)original ↗
24 Jul 2018
Imperial history and classical aestheticsoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2018
2017 letteroriginal ↗
1 Jan 2018

2017

Definite optimism as human capitaloriginal ↗
7 Aug 2017
Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terrororiginal ↗
25 Jun 2017
Why do so few people major in computer science?original ↗
29 May 2017
Reflections from an unglobalized part of the worldoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2017
Tyler Cowen’s *The Complacent Class*original ↗
26 Feb 2017
Californian Dreamsoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2017

2016

Liu Cixin’s *Three Body* Trilogyoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2016
I write for Vox on smartphones and Shenzhenoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2016
“Melancholy,” by Laszlo Foldenyioriginal ↗
16 Oct 2016
“The English and Their History,” by Robert Tombsoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2016
Things I’ve recently learned, 3.13.16original ↗
14 Mar 2016

2015

Casual Carpool in Oakland and Berkeleyoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2015
Sonderwegoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2015
Technological predictions: 1903 – 1970original ↗
8 Sept 2015
Game of Thrones: A Girardian Readingoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2015
The life of Philip Glassoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2015
Two months of Soylentoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2015
Peter Thiel and thinking for yourselforiginal ↗
20 Jun 2015
Data on police officers killed since 1961original ↗
16 Jun 2015
The strangeness of Berlinoriginal ↗
14 May 2015
Space and military experiments in the sixties, and what we’ve lostoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2015

2014

The Logic of Nuclear Exchange and the Refinement of American Deterrence Strategyoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2014
Herman Kahn and the Bomboriginal ↗
15 Nov 2014
Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innovation?original ↗
10 Sept 2014
Lecture notes by Peter Thieloriginal ↗
2 Apr 2014
Liar’s Poker, by Michael Lewisoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2014
Aboutoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2014