Techno-Optimism

Germany's nuclear reversal, AI cracking 20-year math problems, and a retinal chip restoring sight to 81% of blind patients are among the stories defining a pivotal moment for techno-optimists. The pace of progress—from Karpathy's self-running AI research lab to brain-computer interfaces hitting clinical milestones—is making the gap between skeptics and reality increasingly hard to ignore.

Techno-Optimism Tech

AI Is In Its Gentleman Science Era

February 16, 2026 · 4 min read

AI research is wide open for builders with heretical ideas. The window won't last forever.

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AI Didn’t Kill Creativity. It Killed Your Excuses.

February 14, 2026 · 4 min read

The moment you can tell your work sucks is the moment most people quit. AI just makes it harder to hide there.

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SF Is Winning the AI Race. Politicians Want to Kill It.

February 14, 2026 · 4 min read

San Francisco is the only tech hub in America with growing startup formation—and city hall is doing everything it can to drive companies out.

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Startup Exits Double Every Five Years

February 11, 2026 · 2 min read

Hard data proves the abundance machine is accelerating—while pessimists run scarcity scripts from an obsolete world.

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Boil the Ocean

February 07, 2026 · 4 min read

Artificial Superintelligence means it is time to stop playing it safe and raise our ambitions

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We Used to Build Things. What Happened?

February 04, 2026 · 8 min read

From the Panama Canal to parklet regulations—why it’s time for Americans to reclaim technology, growth, and the abundance that once defined it.

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