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The Myth of Prometheus Is Not a Cautionary Tale
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Catastrophe in my Geographical Homeland
 • Virginia Postrel
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Abundance, Progress, and the Future of American Politics
 • Virginia Postrel
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Quality Matters, but You Also Need Luck
 • Virginia Postrel
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Japan's Old Age Crisis and Ours to Come
 • Virginia Postrel
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Three Basic Facts that Affect Fertility
 • Virginia Postrel
42
Next Zoom Meeting for Paid Subscribers
We'll fool around with AI on Monday.
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More AI Testing
An equine analysis and a laborious quotation search
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Experimenting with ChatGPT
Still not a replacement for what I do but a potential time saver and getting better fast.
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Sing, Digital Muse!
The biggest story of the day has nothing to do with Donald J. Trump.
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Managing Generosity Takes Work
And mysterious Google algorithms don't help.
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California Has Its Own Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
And one of them is FIRE. Updates and a guest post from Reason Foundation president and SoCal native David Nott
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Reflections on Burning Cities
I'm safe in Orange County, waiting to see what happens in the next couple of days.
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