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In 2020, Avital Balwit had won a Rhodes Scholarship and turned it down, first to run Carrick Flynn’s congressional campaign and then to give away FTX’s money. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who had entered Columbia University at the age of fifteen and graduated four years later as class valedictorian, had just declined a spot at Yale Law School to work for

The study of economics, public choice theory, theory of public goods, and behavioral sciences will be essential for a better understanding, and as a result, also a better design and engineering process of purpose-driven tokens

Communities devoted to such gods are more likely to prosper, expand, spread, and provide models for other communities to copy.

The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.

The physicist Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute made a remarkable discovery about cities.

his book Range, the science writer David Epstein makes a compelling case for the benefits of being a generalist.

The hard part of providing Equal Fit—the part that requires a new social truth vested in a new covenant—is guaranteeing individual choice.