The Roots of Progress

I don’t use AI to draft my writing.

This blog is now effectively a mirror of my posts on Substack, which has become my main platform.

Sorry I [haven’t replied to your email / couldn’t make your event / have been ignoring your texts].

This digest is late because I’ve been vibecoding—sorry, “agentic engineering.”

I was invited to speak at the Festival of Progressive Abundance, a conference to rally around “abundance” as a new direction for the political left.

Once again it’s been too long and this digest is too big.

Reality is a dangerous place.

I get a lot of pushback to the idea that humanity can “master” nature.

Everyone loves writing annual letters these days.

My essay series The Techno-Humanist Manifesto concluded in October.