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I write essays about relationships, thinking, and agency, sometimes with my wife. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea with our two daughters.

Newsletter on the intersections developmental econ, geopolitics, finance, and African history. Bio: Ghanaian-American, MIT grad, Data Analytics & Product Manager @ Big Entertainment firm. Ex- Aerospace Engineer. Not an expert, but always learning.

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Deeply researched interviews

Economic History

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Currently focused on weekly AI updates. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, medicine and fertility, education and games.

Conversations on population genetics, evolution, history, books, and culture

Why did some societies become rich while others remained poor? Three free essays a week on economic history, technological progress, institutions, industrialization, and the causes rising living standards.

Economics and other interesting stuff

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress, plus announcements from the Roots of Progress Institute

Underrated opportunities in science, technology, and society

Global inequality and More 3.0

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science

Caplan and Candor

Essays about Europe, economics, innovation, and growth

African political economy, foreign affairs, and general commentary.

Natural philosophy, belles-lettres, polemics.

Latest gwern.net updates, interesting links, and reviews

"the most insufferable person alive" --taylor lorenz

Systems Politics and Regime Change

This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Understand the world of today to prepare for the world of tomorrow: AI, tech, longevity, fertility, the future of democracy, energy, education, and more

I discuss papers that ought to be discussed.

New and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co

sex, psychedelics, and social analysis

The P is silent, as in pshrimp or pseudonym.

Data, companies, and ideas from the frontier of biology.

a hand offered to reconnect tech and policy with agrarian ingenuity

essays on culture, politics & history