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I'm imagining a more beautiful future
Here’s the index of everything I’ve written so far.
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Recent posts

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Humanity from the perspective of robots
Talking points for our literary salon next week.
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Substack could create the future of books
Here’s how that could look.
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Writing Prompt: How do we create the next Renaissance?
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is: How can we fund the next Renaissance? How can we create a world where artists are better funded and…
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No one buys books
Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
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In The Garden
Exploration 006 | Oblivion | Vol. III, Issue 6
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I built a castle to save the economy
You're welcome.
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The Elysian
The Elysian
Studying utopia + imagining a better future in essays and fiction.
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Philosophy
Government
Capitalism
Work & Leisure
Cities
Health
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Oblivion (in-progress)
A utopian novel
Obscurity (complete)
A gothic novel

Philosophy

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The unbearable necessity of being online
On loving and loathing the internet as an artist and why we need to be here anyway.
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Humans are good (except for that one guy)
And he’s why we create all the rules and regulations.
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Where do we find paradise?
On the importance of seeking it.
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How do we stop fighting on the internet?
How the philosopher David Hume became best friends with his opponents.
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Government

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I'd like to open a Singapore franchise please?
Franchise Cities as an alternative to Charter Cities.
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What if government worked like Wikipedia?
Wikiocracy as the next phase of democracy.
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What if NATO became a world government?
A speculative future in which we end all war.
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Decouple federal government from nation-states
A world of city-states should join federal governments à la carte.
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Capitalism

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I'm not going to have kids to save the economy
Not on my list of reasons to have children.
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Wakanda isn't an ideal utopia for Africa
But we can create a better one.
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Why I’m not a free market capitalist
Yet.
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The rich are not causing the poor
Oxfam and the phrase “the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.”
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Work & Leisure

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It's time to rethink "retirement"
We should take our retirement like we take our vacation days—whenever we want.
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Blue-collar jobs might be the best jobs
Things have changed since your grandpa worked the mines.
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Remote work could solve global poverty
Open the digital borders.
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Will we return to craftwork?
Our hobbies used to be jobs—in many parts of the world they still are—now we're turning them into jobs again.
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Podcast

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Post Modern: The Replicator
Listen now (10 mins) | On Star Trek's ideal of a post-scarcity economy.
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Post Modern: The Metaverse
Listen now (11 mins) | On whether we want to live in virtual worlds.
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Post Modern: Humanoid Robots
On whether this is something we even want.
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Post Modern: Flying Cars
Listen now (11 mins) | On the future of transportation.
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Fiction

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I built a castle to save the economy
You're welcome.
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I trained an AI on the Catholic God
A piece of short fiction.
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Taylor Swift doesn't want her photo taken
The pop star opens up about the incessant coverage of her personal life in this fictional exploration of fame.
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Could we store the internet on the ocean?
Oblivion, Chapter 12
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