Vigil by George Saunders
Notes from Vigil, the 2026 satirical novel by George Saunders
CGW's Blog
Journalist-entrepreneur Christopher Wink has shared his reading, writing and learning here since 2006.
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Why the joint stock company was one of the world’s best inventions
Notes from the 2003 book The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.
The case for a throwback summer
I enjoyed joining the impressive Cherri Gregg and Avi Wolfman-Arent on WHYY's Studio 2 this week, alongside Stephanie Humphrey and Marc Faletti.
What is human consciousness?
Notes from A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, a 2026 book by author-science journalist Michael Pollan
A vision for Philadelphia 250 years from today
This might be the project, and the writing, I m proudest of in my career thus far. Find here the backstory, and an Inquirer op-ed here I wrote. Below find the words of a vision statement for Philadelphia 250 years from now, which has now inspired a mural by my friend Sean Martorana and Mural Arts Continue reading A vision for Philadelphia 250 years from today
The risk-taking that connects Wall Street, Las Vegas and Silicon Valley
Notes from On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, a 2025 book by popular statistician Nate Silver.
AI a Performance-Enhancing Drug: my interview on WYPR
Jason Michael Perry came to Philadelphia to interview me for his WYPR radio show on artificial intelligence
How a poem’s 1417 rediscovery shaped the Enlightenment
Notes from The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, a 2011 book by historian Stephen Greenblatt
Who are entrepreneurs enemies? My 2026 Technical.ly Builders Conference keynote
Incumbents are one of them.
Moravec’s Paradox
In 1988, researcher Hans Moravec identified that tasks tricky for us appeared simple to computers, and vice versa.