2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (458+ words) Today you might hear self-help gurus talk about flow so constantly that the monosyllable has become a clich" without a clear definition. Csikszentmihalyi summed it up this way: The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is…...

1+ day, 35+ min ago  (1463+ words) Perhaps you've heard the news: America is experiencing a religious revival and it's concentrated among young people who are flocking back to the fold. The Economist declared that "The West has stopped losing its religion." The Washington Post noted that…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (805+ words) I have written a lot about the American crisis of solitude and how it connects to technology, politics, religion, and well-being. What I haven't explored as much is the economic origins of the phenomenon. That's the subject of today's guest…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (13+ words) Is the Smartphone Theory of Everything Wrong? A Comprehensive Investigation'Derek Thompson | Substack...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (464+ words) Today's conversation is with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark. I don't need Jack or anybody at Anthropic to read me a corporate statement about the company's revenue growth. I can do that, myself. What I really wanted to hear from Jack…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (532+ words) Here are three stories about the state of gambling in America. On the morning of February 28th, someone logged onto the prediction market website Polymarket and made an unusually large bet. This bet wasn't placed on a baseball game. It wasn't…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (411+ words) Riding the coattails of Perez, I was very certain that AI was a bubble, for the simple reason that I thought AI spending was rising faster than revenue could possibly match it. But in the last few weeks, I changed…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (456+ words) Derek Thompson | Substack The Most Important Chart in AI Is Also the Most Misunderstood When a metric becomes a meme, it gains in popularity what it loses in precision. For those who believe that artificial intelligence is the most important…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (823+ words) Today I wanted to pull back the lens and share a conversation I had with a geopolitical energy expert on the global economics of this war'why the near closure of the Strait of Hormuz is such an enormous deal for…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (205+ words) Derek Thompson | Substack The Economic Crisis of the Iran War Could Get Very Bad, Very Fast If Donald Trump doesn't end the war by April, "oil prices could get into Scary Land," one expert told me. In its war against…...