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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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This War's Economic Crisis Could Get Much Worse—For the U.S. and the Whole World
This isn't just about the price of oil. It's about everything oil becomes—fertilizer, AI chips, plastic—and the cost of snapping the achilles heel 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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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 Economic Crisis of the Iran War Could Get Very Bad, Very Fast
If Donald Trump doesn't end the war by April, "oil prices could get into Scary Land," one expert told me.
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On Being a Dad
A personal reflection on fatherhood
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How Metrics Make Us Miserable
The quantified life has become a modern religion. But many of us are measuring life the wrong way.
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Why AI Is 'Not Particularly Good' at Curing Disease (Plus: The Next GLP-1 Boom and Why America Hates Big Pharma)
A wide-ranging interview with Dave Ricks, the CEO of Eli Lilly, which makes the GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound and recently became the first…
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Nobody Knows Anything
The fact that a piece of AI science fiction rocked the stock market this week is a clear indication that absolutely no one knows how the next few years…
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The Obscure Media Theory That Explains '99% of Everything'
Or: How did America's mid-century communications theorists get it all so right?
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The Doomsday Scenario for AI and Jobs
What are the strongest cases for it and against it?
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