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The Curious About Everything Newsletter #63
The many interesting things I read in May 2026

What’s the best technology that doesn’t exist yet?
We analyzed 100+ conversations and essays on positive futures to find out

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65
The many interesting things I read in July 2026

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #60
The many interesting things I read in February 2026

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB.
The Expert Trap and the Next War
what forecasting failure tells us about the future

The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…

The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…

How are we writing the future of humanity?
Consciousness spinning

The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI
Why verification, not prompting, could shape the next decade of engineering

Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start.
Some notes on the Nobel Prize hallucination that wasn't

Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts
Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for
