Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson, David Epstein, Aziz SunderjiA newsletter about abundance and building a better world.
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Why Are Men So Bad at Making—and Keeping—Friends?
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There are two problems with the famous “male loneliness crisis”—the loneliness part and the male thing.
First, it’s not clear that loneliness is rising. The most careful studies show only a s...
The AI Boom Has Entered Its 'Wait, Is This Worth It?' Era
The great AI cost panic of 2026 is upon us
A very brief history of AI—and, by extension, the debate over whether it is a bubble—might go something like this:
Can America Escape the Cycle of Vicemaxxing?
Editors note: I really did not want to write this essay. Every time I wanted to write something to address political corruption under Donald Trump, I thought: what is there to say about this subject beyond the fact that it is extremely bad?...
The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think
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Why has the number of births declined everywhere, all at once?
This was the subject of last week’s Plain English episode and a new blockbuster report from the Financial Times’s John Burn-Murdoch. In fact it...
The Six Megatrends That Define 2026
Every week, I save dozens of screenshots of charts, essay passages, science and economics papers, and tweets.
Every week, I save dozens of screenshots of charts, essay passages, science and economics papers, and tweets. Every few months, I...
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Author of the New York Times best sellers RANGE, The Sports Gene, and (newly) Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
Contextualizing America's Housing Market using Data Visualization
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