The Measure of Progress: What We Choose to Count
We have become exceptionally good at measuring the wrong things. This reflection examines how our choice of metrics shapes what we value in research, technology, and public life.
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Attention, Scarcity, and the Architecture of Thought
Our attention has become the primary commodity of the digital age. This essay considers what the industrialization of attention is doing to our capacity for sustained thought.
Uncertainty as a Scientific Virtue
We have come to expect science to deliver definitive answers. This essay argues that a mature scientific culture must learn to communicate and live with uncertainty rather than pretending it does not exist.
On Thinking in Deep Time
Human civilization is young. The future, if we are careful, could be long. This essay considers the ethical and practical challenges of thinking and acting on timescales that dwarf individual lives and even the histories of nations.