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Nov 17, 2023

Bridging the Gap: Technology, Business, and Society

https://youtu.be/yLPJHQUsSXo

Bridging the Gap: Technology, Business, and Society

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May 1

The Pharmacological Persuaders

Two drug classes are quietly reshaping desire, appetite, creativity, and civic life at population scale. We have no framework for seeing…

The Pharmacological Persuaders

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May 1

The Food System Was Built for a Body That Is Changing

A diabetes drug may be doing what thirty years of climate policy could not

The Food System Was Built for a Body That Is Changing

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Jun 11, 2025

We Are at War With the Camera”: A Tactical Protest Guide from LA

“Movements without demands become media spectacles without memory.”

We Are at War With the Camera”: A Tactical Protest Guide from LA

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Apr 16, 2025

The TikTok Reverse: How China’s DTC Wave Is Quietly Undermining U.S. Capitalism

That $9 dupe you just bought on TikTok? It may have saved you $50 — but it might’ve chipped away at your retirement in the process.

The TikTok Reverse: How China’s DTC Wave Is Quietly Undermining U.S. Capitalism

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Apr 13, 2025

Forget Free Trade Agreements. Meet #TradeTok

The TikTok Trade Corridor: Alt-Globalization in Real Time

Forget Free Trade Agreements. Meet #TradeTok

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Apr 13, 2025

It Worked for Me, So I Thought It Worked: The Hidden Assumptions Behind Engineering Design

“Assumed sufficiency is the quietest failure mode in engineering — and the most dangerous.”

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Apr 10, 2025

The CalPERS Conundrum: How Venture Capital Bankrolled Inequality with Public Money

Why your pension, 401(k), and public dollars are quietly funding dominance, displacement, and the surveillance state — and how we reclaim…

Photo of the historical plaque at the HP Garage in Palo Alto, symbolizing the original ethos of Silicon Valley, the HP Way, was born.

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Apr 9, 2025

The Chaos Blueprint: Why Trump is Winning by Burning It All Down

People keep saying Trump is stupid. That he’s bumbling, incoherent, self-sabotaging. But I keep coming back to this question: What if…

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Mar 4, 2025

Behavior Design Meets Sustainability: Key Insights from the Mastering Sustainability Podcast

How understanding human behavior can drive meaningful environmental change

Behavior Design Meets Sustainability: Key Insights from the Mastering Sustainability Podcast

Margarita Quihuis

Margarita Quihuis

Executive Director of the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford; writes about peace, tech, and imaging the world we actually want to live in

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