Interests

State capacity

Santi Ruiz's Statecraft newsletter
What libertarianism has become and will become - State Capacity Libertarianism - Tyler Cowen
Three motivations for "State capacity libertarianism" - Samuel Hammond
Is America a "Kludgeocracy" - Ezra Klein
Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods - Wolf Tivy
The Network State Starts at Home - Ahmed Askary
Welcome to the world of the polycrisis - Adam Tooze
AI Meets the Cascade of Rigidity - Jennifer Pahlka
Britain's new political sorcerer: the Reform Fairy - Duncan Robinson
Law and the Decline of Politics - Jonathan Sumption
Rules of the Game - Ken Binmore

Ideas, bureaucracies and 'metapolicy'

Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation - Anton Howes
Idea machines - Nadia Asparouhova
A beginner's guide to sociopolitical collapse - Eli Dourado
Great Founder Theory - Samo Burja
Laws of Bureaucracy, including:
- Pournelle's iron law - the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely
- Robert Conquest - the behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
- Parkinson's Law: the work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- O Sullivan's First Law - all organisations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.

Startups and tech

Zero to One - Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby
All of Paul Graham's essays - particularly Heresy, Do things that don't scale and A project of One's Own
Choose Good Quests - Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner
Why Software is Eating the World and It's Time to Build - Marc Andreesen
Go Direct: The Manifesto - Lulu Cheng Meservey
Machines of Loving Grace - Dario Amodei
The Intelligence Age - Sam Altman
Introducing def/acc at EF - Matt Clifford
Software 2.0 - Andrej Karpathy

Tech and politics

It's time for Anglofuturism - Aris Roussinos
Building American Dynamism, Make Government Cool Again and On Seriousness - Katherine Boyle
National Accelerationism - Dryden Brown
Voice vs Exit - Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013
Exit vs Build - Mike Solana

Growth

Foundations: why Britain has stagnated - Ben Southwood, Samuel Hughes & Sam Bowman
Will Labour actually get Britain building again - Sam Dumitriu
The Nimby Tax on Britain and America - John Burn-Murdoch
Taming the stars - John Myers
Watt lies beneath - Tom Ough
Making energy too cheap to meter - Benjamin Reinhardt

Cities

Cities and Ambition - Paul Graham
The Housing Theory of Everything - John Myers, Sam Bowman & Ben Southwood
Maximum New York - Daniel Golliher
The network state starts at home - Ahmed Askary
Clusters rule everything around me - Caleb Watney
How to live near your friends - Priya
The Strange Death of Municipal England - Tom Crewe

Progress and metascience

Announcing the Techno-Humanist Manifesto - Jason Crawford
The triumph of electromagnetism over thermodynamics - Noah Smith
We need a new science of progress - Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen
The Diffusion Deficit in Scientific and Technological Power - Jeffrey Ding
The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch

Culture

This sceptred isle - Joshua Trevino
How the British Elite lost its way - Munira Mirza
On cultures that build - Tanner Greer

Grand strategy and foreign policy

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