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2026

Why American ambulance rides are so expensiveoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
Why kinship societies kill their oldoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
Why China got rich and India didn'toriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
AI is killing the cheap smartphoneoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
Why Japanese companies do so many different thingsoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
Language models are weird for the same reason human cultures are weirdoriginal ↗
6 May 2026
Why airlines are always going bankruptoriginal ↗
4 May 2026
How funerals keep Africa poororiginal ↗
9 Apr 2026
How citations ruined scienceoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
Seeing like a spreadsheetoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2026
Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone didoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2026
Why I’m not worried about AI job lossoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2026
Oks notes #2: AI math, the Epstein emails, and why Steve Jobs wanted to buy General Motorsoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
GDP numbers in poor countries are usually fakeoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
Oks notes #1: DeepSeek, the WASPs, and the last Mossad station chief in Tehranoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2026
A lot of population numbers are fakeoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2026
Why poor countries stopped catching uporiginal ↗
19 Jan 2026
The good luck of Nicolás Madurooriginal ↗
7 Jan 2026

2025

On getting robbedoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2025
The era of declining global poverty is overoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2025