Memes
Outsourcing Volatility
Over time, creative destruction becomes faster, less predictable, and harder to contain.
The Race Between Complexity and Control
A networked world is a less predictable world. There are ways to make it more predictable. But you're not going to like them.
The Rise of Synthetic Ideology
Technology was always good at spreading bad ideas. Now, it is starting to produce them directly.
The American Meme
China approaches memes in the same way it approaches pandemics. Its "Zero Covid" policy aims to control tiny aerosol particles that carry infectious viruses. And its censorship policy seeks to control tiny bits of information that carry contagious ideas. As I pointed out in The Meme Leak Theory, China doesn't
The Military-Industrial Memeplex
When memes collaborate, humans make bad decisions.
Abrogation Theory
In a world with unlimited information, thinking for yourself is irrational.
Global Money, Global War
A crowd with a bank account meets an army with an overdraft.
The Meme Leak Theory
China is banning memes. America is developing immunity.
Perpetual Gamma Squeeze
A "crowd with a bank account" is turning the economy — and society — on its head.
Progress and Volatility
Why the next big thing will look like a scam
The Talent Portfolio
Individual people are the next big asset class.
Rise of the 10X Class
The "robber barons" of the 21st Century are the people who used to sit next to you at the office.