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When I Go Quiet
When protection becomes harm →
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Pain and Beauty
I travelled to Vienna to ask Jacob Collier where his creative fire comes from. I wasn’t quite prepared for the answer. Marx Halle By the time… →
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An Open Letter to Sam Altman & the Team at OpenAI
Dear Sam and everyone at OpenAI, I want to say thank you. This is not a polished product review, a carefully calculated business case, or a… →
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Writing at the Speed of Thought
How I turned 45 years of thinking into a 50k-word book in six days A few days ago, I found myself eating a bowl of cereal… →
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The Hunting Party
My first book took six days to write and 51 years to collect. →
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A Hero of Our Time
Non-linear War One night after a long day, I turned on the television and Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe was on. Adam Curtis was talking about Vladislav Surkov,… →
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What Cars Taught Me About Love
Why the things we love are rarely the things that look best from a distance. When I was about six or seven, my favourite uncle, who… →
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Socrates with a Dictaphone
What happens when conversation stops disappearing? I’ve been thinking about what Socrates could have done with a Dictaphone and a PA. He could have sat in… →
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Batman with a Pen
How AI is changing the balance of power between people and institutions The moment I realised I was turning into Batman, but with a pen, was… →
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Five Notes on Human Behaviour
Where to start with a series about control, scarcity, change and the strange ways people affect the environments around them I didn’t really set out to… →
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Social Gravity
This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. What abundance looks… →
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Punctuated Change
This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Why deep psychological… →