Derek Thompson

The quantified life has become a modern religion. But many of us are measuring life the wrong way.

A wide-ranging interview with Dave Ricks, the CEO of Eli Lilly, which makes the GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound and recently became the first trillion-dollar pharma company in history

The fact that a piece of AI science fiction rocked the stock market this week is a clear indication that absolutely no one knows how the next few years will go.

Or: How did America's mid-century communications theorists get it all so right?

What are the strongest cases for it and against it?

It's great to be a dad. But it's great to be back, too.

On the science of hope and hopelessness

Modern trends and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, science, and the long story of progress. But first: an announcement!

There are 12 statistics, factoids, and studies that dominate every discussion about whether artificial intelligence is a bubble. Here's a deep-dive into all 12 arguments

Trump, the White House, and their defenders claim that trade is bad and tariffs are good. So how on earth do they defend America's AI policy, which is the opposite in every way?

It seems like everyone has suddenly agreed that young Americans have never had it worse. Let's investigate.

A brief theory of young men, "the loneliness crisis," and life in the 21st century

The affordability theory of everything

Bubbles. Greed. Technology that forever changes the way we work and live. The history of the 19th century transcontinentals can tell us a lot about the state of AI.

The Sunday Morning Post: The scientific connection between billion-year-old volcanos, oxygen, and your dreams

Since November 2022, the stock market is up more than 70 percent and job openings are down more than 30 percent. Nothing like this has happened in decades.

Today's Sunday Morning Post: Attention, finitude, and a game of life

*The best arguments I've heard on the $10 trillion question of the moment

A theory of culture and attention

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