Which Jobs AI Is Actually Taking — and Which Ones It’s Creating
In January 2025, the World Economic Forum released its Future of Jobs Report estimating that AI and automation would displace 92 million jobs globally by 2030 — while simultaneously creating 170...
In 2016, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced they would dedicate 99% of their Facebook shares — then worth around $45 billion — to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with one of its central...
Salim Ismail wrote Exponential Organizations in 2014 with Peter Diamandis’s Singularity University as the intellectual backdrop. Most business books from that era haven’t aged well. This...
Peter Diamandis’s Abundance Thesis: What It Gets Right (and What It Misses)
Peter Diamandis has been saying for decades that the world is getting better faster than most people realize. For most of that time, he was a useful contrarian — someone worth reading to...
Is Kurzweil Right About 2029? Scoring His Predictions Against Reality
Ray Kurzweil said we’d hit the Singularity by 2045. He also said we’d have AI passing the Turing Test by 2029, and that prediction is looking less crazy every month. GPT-4 surprised...
Recursive Self-Improvement: What It Is and Why It Actually Matters
In November 2023, OpenAI briefly lost Sam Altman — and the reason cited by the board, however vaguely, touched on something that’s been quietly terrifying serious AI researchers for years:...
