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The AI Vibe Shift Has Officially Arrived
We seem to be moving from a period of demand scarcity (not enough customers) to supply scarcity (not enough compute)
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How ‘Zombie Flow’ Took Over Culture
Or: If you're so smart, why aren't you happier?
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The Substack-ification of American Religion
Why young men aren't really going back to church, why liberals are sadder than conservatives, and how "Substack-ification" is transforming the future of…
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This Is How the AI Bubble Will Pop
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The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)
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The 26 Most Important Ideas For 2026
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Everything Is Television
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The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters
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The Monks in the Casino
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Why 'Cost Disease' Is the Secret Force Behind America's Toxic Solitude
The screens got cheap. The shared experiences got expensive.
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Is the Smartphone Theory of Everything Wrong? A Comprehensive Investigation
Many people believe that the nexus of smartphones, Internet, and social media is to blame for every modern catastrophe. Here's 5,000 words on who's…
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What Is Anthropic Thinking?
An interview with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on the specter of AI-fueled mass unemployment, the future of agents, and how to raise children in an…
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We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
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‘Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question.’
The evidence that artificial intelligence is a big fat bubble has, confusingly, gotten much stronger and much weaker at the exact same time.
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The Most Important Chart in AI Is Also the Most Misunderstood
When a metric becomes a meme, it gains in popularity what it loses in precision.
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Why Can't People Agree on a Shared Set of Facts?
Nir Eyal on the power of belief, the atheist's case for prayer, and the origins of self-confidence
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