Faster, Please!

Faster, Please!

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June 2025

✨ 5 takeaways from Peter Thiel's NYT chat with Ross Douthat
It's an interview worth a deep dive
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⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #50
A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was
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⤴🎞 The 7 most Up Wing films of the 21st Century
At least among those landing on the buzzy New York Times list of the century's best movies so far
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✨ 🧬 When AI meets biotechnology: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Jamie Metzl
Faster, Please! — The Podcast #77
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👶📉 3 long-shot ways to solve the global baby bust
God, AI, and space offer better odds than government nudges and subsidies
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🤖🚗 Self-driving cars are finally shifting gears
Ubiquitous AVs would mean a profound economic transformation. Also: much safer streets!
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🎇💥 Strike on Iran shows why US doesn't want to lose the AI race
You don't want to be a tech laggard in the 21st Century. Second place is first loser
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🚀💥 Time to worry about SpaceX and Starship?
I'm concerned that too many booms per blastoff may be putting Elon Musk's Moon and Mars timelines in danger
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🗽 The legacy and future of liberalism: A Quick Q&A with … economist Deirdre McCloskey
'I agree with my friend Francis Fukuyama that liberalism is, so to speak, the natural state of adult humans. Liberalism is adultism.'
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✨ The AI economy is here
Just take a look at what's happening with job changes at Amazon and the Meta vs. OpenAI talent battle
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