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A playbook for the next century of progress

15 October 2025 at 22:41
To build a bold, abundant future, we must reform the laws, institutions, and culture that once powered human progress.

Progress is a grand project for humanity

7 October 2025 at 21:00
Progress offers meaning, demands virtue, and calls builders to turn bold ideas into wonders that uplift human life.

How technocracy made us doubt progress

30 September 2025 at 21:00
The 20th century left us with fatalism, defeatism, and a hollowed-out vision of the future. Techno-humanism can restore our belief in progress.

We used to celebrate science and innovation

10 September 2025 at 21:00
From the Brooklyn Bridge to the polio vaccine, society once honored signs of progress with parades, fireworks, and festivals.

What if humans mastered every aspect of nature?

19 August 2025 at 21:11
A bold vision of a 10x better future where humanity has mastered biology, energy, and matter to unlock unprecedented progress.

AI can dramatically expand human agency

15 July 2025 at 19:00
If we get AI right, it will accelerate empowerment, enabling people to learn any subject, start any business, and realize any vision.

Problem-solving is fundamental to human nature

25 June 2025 at 21:00
Believing in the next solution is not blind optimism or even wishful thinking β€” it is a recognition that humans are problem-solving animals.

It’s far too early to call β€œpeak ideas”

18 June 2025 at 21:00
Economic growth is driven by ideas, not resources β€” and as history shows, the well of innovation is unlikely to ever run dry.

Predictions of resource scarcity have a fundamental flaw

2 June 2025 at 19:00
From where we stand, the true limits to growth are currently unknowable and need not affect any decisions we make today.

We stopped believing in progress. Now, we’re stagnating.

2 June 2025 at 16:00
Have we begun to lose faith in the future? The idea of β€˜progress’ didn’t truly exist throughout the majority of human history. Most ages didn’t see history as an upward […]

If progress has stalled, we need to know why

22 May 2025 at 20:57
We need to figure out what drives progress, what might cause it to slow down or stop, and what, if anything, we can do to re-accelerate it.

Why progress was so slow, for so long

22 April 2025 at 21:00
Progress was agonizingly slow for most of human history, but the rapid progress of the last few centuries was not a fluke.

β€œStopping climate change” is the wrong goal

14 April 2025 at 21:00
Anything that matters to humans should be under our control. The climate mattersβ€”so we should control the climate.

Progress happens because solutions create new problems to solve

6 March 2025 at 22:00
Solutionism means fully accepting what’s in front of us and enthusiastically stepping up to meet the challenge.
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