Taking a weekly look at what might go right, rather than focusing relentlessly on all that is going wrong.
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AI, at a Crossroads
Anthropic filed initial paperwork last week to become a publicly traded company. Its valuation is approaching $1 trillion, placing it among the most valuable enterprises in the history of commerce.
That number is worth sitting with for a m...
“Lots could go wrong, but for lots of reasons that’s not what happens.”
On this week’s What Could Go Right?, Sarah Kreps — current Cornell professor, former U.S. Air Force officer, and author of the forthcoming Harnessing Disruption: Building the Tech Future Without Breaking Society — helped me to provide some...
“Choose ritual. It’s the way home.”
This week, I sat down with writer Bruce Feiler to explore a question that feels increasingly urgent:
When we fixate on society coming apart, do we miss the ways we continue to come together?
Humans find meaning and community in ritual. B...
“A lot of people understand this is actually a pretty good deal.”
Nick Gillespie, the editor of Reason magazine, has spent decades thinking about freedom, culture, and politics. In the latest episode of What Could Go Right?, he and I explore one of the defining paradoxes of our era: why a modern world tha...
“Keep rowing; it's through the rowing that clarity emerges.”
One of modernity’s great delusions is the belief that enough information can spare us from uncertainty. We endlessly scroll, analyze, and forecast in pursuit of the “right” choice — the perfect job, the smartest investment, the ideal candid...
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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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