How Covid Lockdowns Came to Italy

Online | May 2022

The Jews who didn’t leave Egypt

Online | April 2022

'A new and decadent power center has been built, made up of the federal government and a constellation of corporations and nonprofits that operate as connected wings of the same sprawling complex. The people who control the key platforms and networks are aggregating power to themselves at the expense of everyone else.'

Jamie Dimon, J.P. Morgan, and the authoritarian impulse

New York | April 2022

'ESG, powered by so-called stakeholder capitalism, is “a deeply political … hate factory,” one explicitly designed to allow the most influential CEOs to use other people’s capital to play the role of unelected, unappointed economic and social czars ...'

Charter Cities X Crypto

Online | November 2021

'The cities and nations we exist in today were built with the absence of the new technology and innovations we have now. Building something from scratch releases us of the constraints from what was built in the past ...'

Extended Enterprise

Online | March 2022

The 20th century model of the centralized enterprise will be replaced from the bottom up by loosely coupled, self-organizing distributed networks of companies, teams and independent professionals combining their economic output to provide products and services and create value.

On small business, cities and making stuff

Online | March 2021

The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand

London | April 2022

'To those with no love of individual freedom, it opens up seductive new vistas for control, manipulation and oppression. And who owns the data? Who has access to the data? And, is it ethical to chip people like we do pets?'

Decentralized Economy

Online | March 2022

Central planning always fails miserably. Massive data collection and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not change that. Bottom-up collaboration between free people will create the future. The global superpower in the emerging post-Bretton Woods new world order will be the decentralized, distributed independents.

Open Innovation

Online | March 2022

Open innovation is a more distributed, decentralized approach to innovation. No company could innovate effectively on its own. The winners in business will be those that combine knowledge and ideas from many different sources. Secrecy, barriers and restrictions are bad for business. Open innovation requires open debate and free speech.

Chris Dixon thinks Web3 is the future of the internet - is it?

New York | April 2022

'In my mind, if Web3 works right — if we can do it the right way — it is the best of both worlds of Web1 and Web2.'

The dangers of not aligning AI with human values

Online | April 2022

'Theoretically, if you tell a self-driving car to navigate from point A to point B, it could just smash its way to its destination, regardless of the cars, pedestrians or buildings it destroys on its way.'