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Weekly Dose of Optimism #188
AI vs. Alzheimer's, Substrate x GDM, Robot Lamp, Artemis II, Primer + Extra Doses
Apr 10
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #187
Artemis, TBPN, Gemma 4, Solar, Somos + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses
Apr 3
133
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Bad Analogies
Not Every Money-Burning Company is Amazon
Apr 2
180
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March 2026
Weekly Dose of Optimism #186
NASA Goes Nuclear, Terraform, Arbor Turbines, Flu Vaccine, Chicken Egg Drugs + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses
Mar 27
117
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Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World
A Co-Written Essay with Arena Physica CEO Pratap Ranade
Mar 24
178
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #185
Kalanick, Bezos, Copper One, Cancer Drugs, Shinzen + Scientific Breakthroughs + My Favorite Essay of the Week
Mar 20
100
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World Models: Computing the Uncomputable
A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim DeWitte
Mar 19
343
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #184
Solar and Brains' Big Week, Zero Point Energy, Replit Agent 4 + Funding News + Nietzsche
Mar 13
124
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #183
a16z AD Summit, Pi memory, Evo 2, Injectable Livers, Ginkgo Cloud Lab + 5 fundraising stories and my favorite sci-fi series.
Mar 6
115
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Costless Sacrifice
Going off the Gold Standard but for Information
Mar 5
241
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February 2026
Weekly Dose of Optimism #182
Form Batteries, Proxima Fusion, Shrooms, Stripe 2025, Vitamins + Scientific Breakthroughs, Two Profiles, Mario Joins Hummingbird
Feb 27
138
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #181
Heron Transformers, C-17 Reactor Flight, Vaccine for coughs, colds, & flus, Ineffable Intelligence, Alien Files + 8 Scientific Breakthroughs, 2 pods …
Feb 20
123
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