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Jun 12
My last piece for Businessweek for awhile, maybe ever
Jun 10
“Game intelligence” in football was long thought to be a skill players were born with. But these days, coaches are starting to believe it can be taught bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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May 29
Hey California, the Netherlands (pop. 18m) has 13 billionaires among its citizens.
They get taxed at ~40% of their income plus ~1.2% of their total global assets, every year.
Most of them still live in the Netherlands.
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May 8
Winding down my 10 years of longform journalism explaining scientific and technological solutions to policymakers & the public: canarymedia.com/articles/gre…
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Apr 14
Who is this guy who just sent Orbán into retirement? Check out this profile I worked on with colleagues from Brussels-based investigative journalism outlet @FTM_eu ftm.eu/articles/orban-main-r…
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Apr 10
Also, slavery
The former Dutch Empire teaches us a lot about the importance of capitalism in driving long-term success through the development of productive entrepreneurs.
The Dutch became a leading empire by being open to the best thinking in the world. They became so inventive that they were responsible for 25% of all the major inventions in the world — including ships that could travel and collect great riches, and the invention of capitalism as we know it today to finance those voyages.
This virtuous cycle leads to strong income growth, which can be used to finance investments in education, infrastructure, research, and development. Over time, that helps its citizens become more productive and more competitive than their peers.
#principles #raydalio #history #capitalism
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Apr 10
On my way home from Garamba National Park DRC with Thyss (pilot) and Tom (wildlife patrol trainer). Got my lede, kicker, 2 narrative threads, a midpoint reversal and some unbelievable imagery. Editors that rejected this pitch gonna be hella bummed
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Apr 3
I'm sure the people of Mississippi are super stoked to know they're wealthier than the people of France while they're paying $20k more a year for healthcare and $80k more for college.
Also during those 10 years that they're dead.
nytimes.com/2026/03/26/opini…
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Apr 4
Looking at per capita GDP as a measure of a society's well-being without looking at the costs shouldered by its people is like doing your family budget without adding up what you spend on rent and groceries
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macrotrends.net/global-metri…
sunherald.com/news/local/art…
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Mar 19
Having traveled extensively in the developing world, I can tell you that a huge % of this 2.7b is more concerned with putting food on the table and not getting malaria than building their capacity for entrepreneurship.
⬇️ helps people like Diamandis more than it helps them.
You've got 8 billion potential customers on Earth, BUT...
In 2026, only ~5.3 billion have internet access. That means 2.7 billion people still can't access the exponential tools we talk about daily—AI, telemedicine, online education, digital banking.
The gap: The missing ~3 billion represent the largest untapped market in human history. Starlink alone now has 10,000 satellites in orbit (just crossed that milestone yesterday). When connectivity becomes ubiquitous in the next 3-4 years, we're not just adding users—we're adding builders, creators, entrepreneurs.
The implication: The next Einstein, the next Elon, the next medical breakthrough might be sitting in a village without Wi-Fi right now. Abundance doesn't just mean "more for current participants"—it means unlocking latent genius at global scale.
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Feb 11
Also, how is someone going to sneak out of Costco with 500 rolls of toilet paper?
Feb 11
I love Charlie Munger, but this particular argument for why Costco charges membership fees always seemed deeply implausible. What person who's going to regularly steal stuff from a store is unwilling to pay $50 a year for the opportunity to access a cornucopia of consumer goods?
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Feb 2
More than 10,000 STEM PhD's have lost or left their jobs during the Trump administration, according to a count by @ScienceMagazine
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Jan 23
This is basically the marmite of Sweden--fish paste they actually have the nerve to call "caviar", which they will put on virtually anything.
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Jan 22
What keeps people out of the hospital (accidents notwithstanding, obvs) actually has very little to do with technology
Honestly, we might not need better hospitals; we need better technology that prevents people from ending up in the hospital in the first place.
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Jan 16
New research reveals the jetpack was invented in Joseon Dynasty Korea
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Jan 8
I saw this and my journalist brain went, "Fails the 'Why now?' test!" Most of what the article says has been known for 20 years. They get to it a bit in graf 12.
But: This is important, forgotten, and fixable.
Sometimes our conventions don't serve us
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Jan 7
The Finns and the Danes will not be impressed by Netherlanders' Cycling undeterred this week, but I still am
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Jan 7
RT @evagolinger: Have been saying all along that the pseudo-experts on Venezuela that popped up over the past few months were miscalculatin…
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Paul Tullis retweeted
A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside of work.
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Jan 5
Amsterdam has a "night mayor" in charge of ensuring a broad offering of nightlife activities after-hours, including offerings for various subcultures.
And he looks exactly as you'd expect
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18 Dec 2025
If Nick Reiner is found unfit to stand trial by reason of mental incompetency, he'll go to a psych hospital until declared fit. Unless there aren't any beds-which happens ALL THE TIME, as I wrote for @TheAtlantic Then it's jail, likely w/o treatment theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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18 Dec 2025
Nick Reiner might be ill enough to kill his parents but not so ill that he can't understand the charges against him or the court process. Then he'll be one of the lucky ones--going to trial. 4/5
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18 Dec 2025
You might not feel sympathy for him, but 1000s of folks with mental illness in the US commit no crime until the cops show up, who haven't been trained in how to manage PWMI. To be sick and tossed in jail without a trial, treatment, or meds for MONTHS--that is an actual crime. 5/5
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