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East India Company founded — 1600 Shakespeare – Hamlet published 1603 England starting to settle America – 1607 in Virginia, assorted, you could add Harvard here as well King James Bible – 1611 The beginnings of steady economic growth – 1620 (Greg Clark, JPE) Rule of law ideas, common law ideas, Sir Edward Coke – […]

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Mass layoffs at Microsoft mean workers have to pick up the pieces

Some people say it now annoys them to have any plans on the weekend. They instead prefer to spend it recharging their social batteries.

Nearly a century after a landmark psychology study was conducted, we revisit its findings — with your help!

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

The entire legal immigration system is actually designed not to be followed by most people, but to keep most people out.

Gavin Newsom has turned the Golden State into a woke dystopia.

Beneath the pretense of benevolence lurks savage conquest.

The ‘de minimis’ exemption allows Chinese e-commerce companies Shein and Temu to deliver hundreds of millions of packages of cheap clothing without tariffs or inspections.

Ahead of the release of year’s nominations later today, here are the best acting turns not even shortlisted for an Academy Award this century

Called on to give an after-dinner talk at a 1961 meeting, Los Alamos physicist Darol Froman proposed a new project “without much attention to some of the practical aspects”: What if we turned Earth into a giant spaceship and drove it around? If we built a fusion rocket and fed it the moon and some damp sand, it could (in principle) carry us out of orbit. Our atmosphere would protect us from interstellar radiation, and we’d be free of the worry of our sun’s impending death. It might take 100 million years to make our way out of the solar...

by Trevor Haynes figures by Rebecca Clements “I feel tremendous guilt,” admitted Chamath Palihapitiya, former Vice President of User Growth at Facebook, to an audience of Stanford students. He was responding to a question about his involvement in exploiting consumer behavior. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works,” he explained. In Palihapitiya’s talk, he highlighted something most of …

Here’s an insane thing I read on social media today: Post by @inspiringselfcompassion View on Threads The fellow who blocked the account above, Michael Darius, includes Apple pioneer, skeuomo…

I occasionally get to hang around people with real wealth, and those on their way to real wealth. I’ve notice there is a rising scale of how wealth is experienced. As your income gains more zeros, you ascend through this … Continue reading →

Despite all the cheerleading and hype, telcos remain fiercely resistant to putting their mission-critical workloads in the public cloud.

A story a bit deeper than millennials and avocado toast

Imagine a billionaire kidnapped a random person and said: Here is a camera, banana, bicycle, sundress, and porcupine; you have one day to make a funny video using them all. I’ll upload it to YouTube, and if it gets “enough” views in the first day, I’ll give you $10B. If not, I’ll kill you and your closest twenty relatives. No, I’m not going to tell you my “enough” threshold. Go.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, righ…