Arvind Narayanan
Professor of Computer Science at Princeton; co-writes AI as Normal Technology with Sayash Kapoor.
Breakneck by Dan Wang
I liked Dan Wang's uh, Breakneck. A lot of echoes of abundance as well. But this idea of thinking about a lawyerly society versus an engineering society was I thought a really good and succinct way to capture a lot of the macro and micro differences.
on a podcast · 9 Oct 2026 · Report
Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie
So maybe in keeping with that, I really like Hannah Ritchie's book, Not the End of the World. She has a newer book, but this one's from 2024 and I still like it very much. The subtitle is something like how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet. It's an optimistic take on climate, which is of course usually full of doom and gloom stories, so I really liked it for that reason.
on a podcast · 9 Oct 2026 · Report
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