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It's easy to think extinction equals failure, but in fact, past life may encode the solutions to our most pressing future problems.

It allows anyone in a crypto network to take existing programs and adapt or build on top of them, unlocking completely new use cases. 

Crypto, the blockchain, and zero-knowledge proofs are enabling a class of web services that are more incentive-aligned with users.

The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.

One possible solution to the replication crisis is to apply big data, "omics"-like approaches to the scientific literature: aka Publomics.

The world watched when the container ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal this March. Some people made sites, many people made memes; I made a children’s book. It seemed almost comical: A patch of bad weather drove the 1312-foot lo...

Software is fashionable, but we need more than software to reshape our physical world. To build more, we have to prize manufacturing as more meaningful work.

AI can revolutionize healthcare and the life sciences. But the reality, in practice, is that the potential of AI will be limited — unless it gets a lot smarter.

We will inevitably blend distributed work with in-person, but the details are much harder than they appear.

To harness the untapped power of subtraction in the future, we need to understand why we haven’t embraced it in the past.