The third wave of American philanthropy
AI is about to generate hundreds of billions in new philanthropic funding. We have real work to do to make the most of it.
Nan’s Substack
An experiment in writing more
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There should be ‘general managers’ for more of the world’s important problems
There’s a surprisingly big category of problems that are ‘orphaned.’ By ‘orphaned’ I mean: you can’t point to a specific person or organization who thinks it’s their responsibility to deliver the outcome in its entirety.
Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf
Some of my favorite parts—chief among them that I've found a new hero in Caroline Schlegel-Schelling.
Should there be a 'supply-side abundance agenda' for childcare?
Fertility rates are declining and, from what I can tell, we don’t really have a definitive handle yet on why.
GLP-1s but for attention?
Humans have a finite amount of attention.
What virtue is undersupplied today?
I recently wrote a short piece on moral imagination and have been thinking about virtue ethics generally.
Some thoughts on moral imagination
It’s interesting to me that when we look for guidance on big topics like, ”What does it mean to be a good person?”, or “What makes for a meaningful, worthwhile life?”, many of the canonical texts we regularly refer to are very old.
Some reflections on the new David Hockney exhibit
This weekend I got to see David Hockney 25, the new Hockney exhibit at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Is Romanticism making a comeback in SF?
SF's Romantic Revival
Quick carbon removal demand math
Carbon removal demand continues to be a much-discussed topic within the field.