Greatest Hits
Who Needs An Office Anyway?
I wanted to share with you a video of a talk and Q&A session I gave in San Diego a few weeks ago. It summarizes my thoughts about the future of work, but also some broader ideas about the nature of our economy and where everything is headed.
Real Estate & AI: Ten Predictions
How will AI affect the value, design, and operation of physical buildings and cities?
Inequality and Abundance
We cannot eliminate inequality, but we can make it irrelevant.
NVIDIA: The Distributed Rocketship
The world's most innovative hardware is developed "from home."
Remote Is Not Enough
The next productivity boom will not come from robots doing more; it will come from humans doing less.
Tragedy of the Uncommon
Lessons from AI and urban planning on why it pays to keep things open — and how exclusivity destroys value.
The Quiet Luxury of Language
When everyone can sound intelligent, elite conversations will become less intelligible.
Your Boss Has No Clue
Don't sacrifice your dog. Give your boss a hug.
Thinking Fast and Slopes
In a networked economy, overestimating low-probability events is not irrational — it's optimal.
It’s Time for a National Success Fund
There’s a better way to spread the fruits of innovation.
The Scalable Imagination
📚I am writing a new book about the future of work, cities, and companies. Click here to read the first few pages. The Scalable Imagination0:00/233.8220831× We tend to underestimate technology's power to turn in-person work into scalable work. On the verge of the 20th Century,
The Meme Leak Theory
China is banning memes. America is developing immunity.