At the end of high school, most graduating seniors are given their diplomas with a heaping side of platitudes, many of them patently preposterous. Such as, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Or “You can be anything you want to be.” And especially, “With grit and determination, there’s nothing you can’t do."

Traditionally, high school students have taken assessments that are designed to identify strengths and talents and point to how those might map onto promising careers, but these have notable shortcomings. A new generation of assessments promises a better approach. Instead of assuming that individuals already know themselves, it puts them through a ... See more

None of this bodes well for many of the new VC entrants who have suddenly become enamored by the capital return potential of science. We have a view that real advances in science are relatively rare, that they are hard to produce, and they tend to be signaled by clear research evidence years if not decades in advance. Venture capital is not a fit f... See more

"Some of the things we see as bugs might be, actually features, maybe crucial to our overall happiness...as our limitations might lead to More happiness than less".

Within the broad umbrella of SMRs and microreactors, though, there are a number of additional innovations.

Next, we get Balaji's overview of the political realignments in recent history, and finally we get to his core model of politics in the present day: NYT (Woke Capital), CCP (Communist Capital), BTC (Crypto Capital).

A corporation is not a root: if there is a dispute inside a corporation, it ultimately gets resolved by a national court system. Blockchains and network states, on the other hand, are trying to be new roots. 

But the outlook of these young people can't be explained by economics and global events alone. It must also have something to do with the way they were raised. As the University of Michigan time-analysis data show, this is a group whose members have spent the bulk of their lives in structured, adult-organized activities. They are the most honed and... See more

His current project is to learn MIT's 4-year curriculum for computer science in 12 months, without taking any classes. Scott earned his Bachelor of Commerce Honors from the University of Manitoba and his blog features more than 850 articles and books focused on "getting more from life".