New Politics for the Next Economy, the book. Feeling stressed about politics and the country? That makes sense. You’re living through a tran...

She intended to say “real-world data,” but it came out “real weird data.” And somehow, that stuck. Because the data's most remarkable fe...

Microsoft has offered voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its workforce. Not 60,000 layoffs. No one knows ...

I feel like a dolphin. What? No porpoise.

At birth he was James Donald Bowman. Around age 6, he was given the name James David Hamel. Then, in April of 2013, at 28, he took the name ...

My old-man political fantasy is simple: No one takes you seriously as a politician if you think markets and their ability to make people ric...

The Trump administration is looking for ways to shut down the Lord of the Rings franchise because of its completely out of control Diversity...

In an earlier post, I contrasted the huge P/E of Tesla with the more reasonable P/E of Nvidia. That gap has only grown since the post.  Nvid...

In The Metaphysical Club , Louis Menand tells the story of how William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles Peirce and their friends de...

I am a meliorist. A meliorist is a person who believes that the world can be made better through human effort, will, and social action. Max...

 

Apple and Genentech were both founded in 1976, fifty years ago. One helped transform the seemingly specialized technology of computing into ...

A central message of my books The Fourth Economy and New Politics for the Next Economy is a transformation too rarely discussed: the shift...

"I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble," Sam Spade said in the Maltese Falcon. Which seems, on the face of it, fairly r...

This month, Donald Trump proposed renaming either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean to either "Trump Ocean" or the "Ocean of the ...

Anthropic went from roughly $1 billion to $65 billion in run rate in about 18 months. ChatGPT was the fastest-adopted consumer product on r...

Nvidia's Jensen Huang. I don't know any CEO who more consistently identifies and then breaks constraints. It is no coincidence that ...

Four Jewish brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the pres...

Americans. We're a slow-witted people but not a no-witted people. Putin's buddy continues to lose support. The good Donald (Duck)...

He pronounced it weirdly. Took a beat to realize what he was saying when he drawled, "Yippie A-I," his sarcastic commentary on ho...