Understanding the exponentials of food — I will explain why lab-grown meat is going to be a thing, I promise. But it may be a bit of a wander. Ready? Let’s go. Part I: The Underlying Phenomenon The first name that typically comes up when someone hears about exponential technologies is Gordon Moore. In 1965, Moore, one of the co-founders of…

You have far more power than you realise — I started my first business when I was 6 years old. New York City, 1979: I’d take a pile of books from our house, lay them out on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and sell them for whatever I could get. It was an unbeatable business model…

Time to face the truth — “This is not who we are,” said Joe Biden on Wednesday, as armed insurrectionists freely roamed the Capitol: Let me be very clear: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America. Do not represent who we are. What we’re seeing are a small number of…

There’s a more powerful way to look at it — It was the seventh day of the eleventh month of the first year of the new millenium, and I had failed to vote. I mean, it wasn’t that big of a deal. I wasn’t trying to make a statement, or feeling particularly disillusioned or disenfranchised. Truth is, I just couldn’t…

A love letter from a dual citizen — Dear America, First, a quick update from New Zealand. Despite what you may have heard, we do not have any “massive breakouts” or “big surges” of coronavirus. Our pandemic response has most certainly not turned our country into a “hellhole.” As of this writing, we have 111 active cases…

It’s okay to realize you might be, too — Let me start by saying that I know this is not about me. This is about justice, and injustice, and what each of us can do to bend the arc of the moral universe just that tiny bit more. It is not about my fears, my tears, or my grief…

On the perils of celebrating too early — The mission went horribly wrong. First, a fire broke out while the team was refueling on the Russian space station. Then, the hull of one of the two spacecrafts was punctured by debris as they approached the asteroid, killing most of the crew. The other spacecraft landed safely but missed…