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Weekly Dose of Optimism #186
NASA Goes Nuclear, Terraform, Arbor Turbines, Flu Vaccine, Chicken Egg Drugs + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses
Mar 27
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The Electric Slide
Aug 26, 2025
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #180
Feb 13
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Excel Never Dies
Mar 8, 2021
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The Great Online Game
May 10, 2021
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Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World
A Co-Written Essay with Arena Physica CEO Pratap Ranade
Mar 24
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #185
Kalanick, Bezos, Copper One, Cancer Drugs, Shinzen + Scientific Breakthroughs + My Favorite Essay of the Week
Mar 20
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World Models: Computing the Uncomputable
A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim DeWitte
Mar 19
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #184
Solar and Brains' Big Week, Zero Point Energy, Replit Agent 4 + Funding News + Nietzsche
Mar 13
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #183
a16z AD Summit, Pi memory, Evo 2, Injectable Livers, Ginkgo Cloud Lab + 5 fundraising stories and my favorite sci-fi series.
Mar 6
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Costless Sacrifice
Going off the Gold Standard but for Information
Mar 5
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #182
Form Batteries, Proxima Fusion, Shrooms, Stripe 2025, Vitamins + Scientific Breakthroughs, Two Profiles, Mario Joins Hummingbird
Feb 27
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #181
Heron Transformers, C-17 Reactor Flight, Vaccine for coughs, colds, & flus, Ineffable Intelligence, Alien Files + 8 Scientific Breakthroughs, 2 pods …
Feb 20
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Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World
A Co-Written Essay with Arena Physica CEO Pratap Ranade
Mar 24
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World Models: Computing the Uncomputable
A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim DeWitte
Mar 19
312
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Raising a Special Little AI
The actual lesson from Clawdbot/Moltbook
Feb 3
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The Venezuela Opportunity
A Co-Written Essay with Ross Garlick
Jan 22
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