Taking a weekly look at what might go right, rather than focusing relentlessly on all that is going wrong.
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On the Origin of Species, 2026 Edition
Sometimes What Could Go Right? is about what’s possible; other times it’s about what we permit ourselves to imagine. This week’s discussion with Ben Lamm, founder of genetic-engineering company Colossal Biosciences, sits squarely at that in...
The numbers that lie (and those that lie a bit less)
For all the complex talk about “the economy,” it’s worth asking one simple question: What exactly are we talking about when we talk about the economy? Is it a specific and real thing, or just a story or collection of stories that we tell ou...
The case for boxing ourselves in
David Epstein is a challenger of conventional wisdom, and on this week’s episode of What Could Go Right? he turned one more cliché on its head. His new book, Inside the Box, argues that creativity and innovation, not to mention happiness, o...
Can America rethink prison?
America’s criminal justice system is often seen as an intractable problem — too vast, too entrenched, too political to welcome meaningful change. But what if that assumption is wrong?
This week on my What Could Go Right? podcast, I sat dow...
"Nobody wants to see headlines about incremental progress. That's the bias that gets us in trouble."
This week’s episode of What Could Go Right? is a little different. Rather than a traditional interview, I’m sharing a live conversation I moderated at the Aspen Ideas Festival with historian Greg Jackson and author Steven Johnson about a se...
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Zachary Karabell, a.k.a. The Edgy Optimist, is the founder of The Progress Network. He is also is a public speaker, a recovering academic, a former finance exec, and an occasional entrepreneur who has written at least one too many books.
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