Publisher @stripepress | Board @ifp @joinFAI | Creator of TACIT, a mini-documentary series following master craftspeople at work
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Tamara Winter retweeted
May 19
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy
Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history.
How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today?
I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it.
This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it.
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Wright’s vision for the island city was a “Jules Verne-esque design… resolutely futuristic… apartments for 7,500 residents, rising like a stack of offset, alternating dishes. Above these dwelling floors, and separated by sundecks, would be a crescent of seven corrugated, candlestick-shaped towers containing more apartments and a 500-room hotel.” At the center of it all, Wright placed “a huge globe, seemingly pockmarked by eons of meteor collisions, and held aloft by plastic canopies protecting the plazas below.”
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Apr 27
Pretty cool analysis of AI use on Substack by @TaylorLorenz
Apr 27
How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?
I used @pangram (AI detection tool) to analyze thousands of posts from the top Substack newsletters across every category to find out.
Here's what I discovered 👇🏻 usermag.co/p/how-much-of-sub…
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Apr 27
I loved this profile; @benjwallace captured @dwarkesh_sp brilliantly.
I think as A.I. gets better and easier to use than ever, it will become really clear who actually does the reading. If Dwarkesh has any superpower, it’s that.
This is a great profile of @dwarkesh_sp
He is excellent at what he does. One of the few podcasts I listen to virtually every episode, knowing it’ll be deep, unique, and impeccably well researched.
Good person, doing great work. Have a read:
nytimes.com/2026/04/26/busin…
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Apr 13
Years ago @tylercowen and @AvitalBalwit wrote that AI increases the value of secrets.
It clearly also increases the value of *print*. (Regardless, the Internet Archive is an invaluable resource and it would be horrible to lose or neuter it.)
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. wired.com/story/the-internet…
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Apr 3
I am hiring a full-time Head of Media ASAP to work with me and the Cluny Institute team to completely change the landscape of media for serious things, such as engagement with religion and spiritual themes from film to books to a new publication launching this summer. Must have a healthy revulsion to all of the superficial “vibe shift” content, must be in DC, and must like to have fun while building real things that reach the soul.
Generous salary and benefits. Iykyk.
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Mar 31
Do I know anyone who is *very* serious about watches?
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Mar 24
Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct
citiesandmemory.com/obsolete…
Mar 22
What is a sound or smell that doesn’t exist anymore, but 30 years ago was so common it was considered background noise?
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Mar 21
Didn’t expect a book on maintenance to be spellbinding
Wonderfully written by @stewartbrand
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Mar 20
Doing the reading is a superpower, and it's even better in a world where "no one" is doing the reading. (Inspired by a conversation I had with some college students.)
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Mar 20
Sad news from @NewYorker this morning. Tad Tomkins has died at the age of 100. He was a giant. newyorker.com/culture/postsc…
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Mar 20
“Few safeguards” and all you need is a sentient editor
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Mar 17
There are a surprising number of strange jobs on Stripe’s comms team: sometimes your task is to learn how to service Guinness kegs, or to become a crypto expert very quickly, or, in my case, to visit the most interesting knifemaker in Ireland.
Join us!
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Mar 12
📚 We're *finally* coming to Boston! ☕
Stop by our pop-up at Vester Cafe on April 4th for coffee, the full Stripe Press catalog, and some limited-edition merch.
RSVP: luma.com/8qukz62d
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Mar 9
It’s sort of impossible to overstate the impact of Tyler on my life. My first job out of college was at @mercatus, and you can basically draw a straight line from there to Stripe Press (which I discovered because of Stubborn Attachments!).
Mar 9
Think it's worth saying a bit more about the breadth of Tyler Cowen's accomplishments.
Each one of these alone would be enough to make most people's careers:
1. Marginal Revolution is the most successful econ blog of all time
2. Emergent Ventures has given grants to ~1,000 ambitious young people
3. Fast Grants awarded $50 million for COVID research
4. The Great Stagnation and other Cowen books continue to be influential
5. Conversations with Tyler has been one the best long-form interview podcasts for years
6. Between the e-learning platform (Marginal Revolution University) and the textbook (Modern Principles of Economics), he's one of the leading economics educators of his generation
7. GMU econ and Mercatus are vibrant intellectual communities and they wouldn't be what they are without Tyler
The list could go on and on (his work with Derek Parfit, his culinary contributions, etc).
But most of all, Tyler is a mensch. One of the most important things he does is "raise the aspirations of others."
He did that for me, and for countless others.
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Mar 9
The funny thing is this story is utterly unremarkable. As Alec says, there are thousands of people who can offer a version of story this about Tyler.
The idea that with even a small, encouraging nudge, you can change the course of someone’s life is perhaps his most important.
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Mar 6
From Ezra Klein, more true than ever.
You would not believe how many shortcuts everyone else is taking.
In many areas, you can get way ahead of everyone just by doing the work.
More true than ever now, when more people are shirking and AI lets you do 10x if you try. 1/
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Tamara Winter retweeted
Feb 24
Announcing Arena Magazine Issue 007: For Your Eyes Only.
It's our biggest issue ever: 128 pages of intrigue and espionage. Satellites, radars, Chinese industrial spying, missiles, the CIA. We've got it all.
Shipping to @arenamagdotcom subscribers now 🇺🇸
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Feb 24
It's actually 1.1 million now 🤭
But in all seriousness, I am so proud of the @stripepress team and our incredible stable of authors. It’s easy to be fatalistic about the state of publishing, but there *is* an audience for books—even ones that are challenging and technical.
Feb 24
Congrats to @stripepress and @tamarawinter on selling 1M books!!
That’s a lotta books!! 📚
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But there is so much more to do. So expect:
1. More books (and more venturing outside of our current focus on science, technology, business, and economics)
2. Our first softcovers(!) The (high-quality) mass-market paper back is NOT dying on our watch.
3. A new website 😇
4. More IRL hangs. So far we’ve been to SF, Dublin, NYC, Toronto, London, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Very open to suggestions about where we should go next!
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