Stories by paulpauper

What Do You Do with an Idea?

Progress and Its Enemies

Welcome to the Techlash

What's Holding Up Progress?

Weight-loss surgery down 25 percent as anti-obesity drug use soars

The End of Francis Fukuyama

Bitcoin rises 3% after topping $73,000 since March

America Blew Almost $2T. Make It Stop

Why fast-food price increases have surpassed overall inflation

Between Hesitation and Hope

The Energy Transition Is Powered By – Wait for It – Coal

AI #87: Staying in Character

Why you'll never be successful (and live a mediocre life) (2014)

Living in a World of Declawed Souls

New Report on Nuclear Risk

Taleb and the Art of Bad Aphorism

So You Want to Learn About Economics

Visualizing the Swamp: Who Is Afraid of Walter Kempner?

Mental disorders are about things

In Defence of Power (2023)