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Space Dispatch

8/9/2026

Summer 2026

Where Will AI Stocks Go from Here?

8/3/2026

Summer 2026 Dispatch

The Dress Rehearsal of AI Killing Us All

7/30/2026

AGI Dispatch Summer 2026

The UK, Europe, and Canada Are Losing Freedom of Speech

7/28/2026

Dispatch Summer 2026

Energy & Environment Dispatch

7/25/2026

Summer 2026

Dispatch on the Craziness of Wealth Taxes

7/21/2026

Summer 2026

GeoHistory Dispatch

7/19/2026

Iran-US war, slavery, the most imporant number in human prehistory, and more

Geopolitics Dispatch

7/17/2026

Summer 2026

Religion as Software Business

7/10/2026

v0:Animism. v1: Polytheism. v2: Zoroastrianism. v3...?

How Islam Overtakes Christianity

7/8/2026

Islam's unique user acquisition, retention, and monetization tactics

How the Industrial Revolution Changed Architecture

7/2/2026

Architects abhorred, fought, and embraced the industrial machine

When Architecture Became Self-Conscious

6/29/2026

From Renaissance to Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, and Historicism

How Christianity Went Viral

6/23/2026

The growth mechanics of Christianity to become the biggest religion the world has ever seen

Most Intelligence Is Search

6/16/2026

How can you win when LLMs are better than you?

Design for Uncharted Territories

6/14/2026

Full time or for the shop, including a $1000 Challenge

Islamismophobia

6/9/2026

Support Islam, Oppose Islamists

How Can Europe Improve Its Immigration

6/2/2026

Through getting better immigrants, rejecting coutnerproductive ones, and managing the existing ones better.

Why Europe Shouldn’t Close Its Doors to Immigration

5/31/2026

Although immigrants in Europe cause more crime, drain more state resources, and work less than natives, Europe should still receive immigrants: People get the causality wrong

The Criminal, Social, and Economic Cost of Immigrants in the EU

5/26/2026

There’s been a huge backlash against immigration in the West recently.

What Immigrants Should the West Accept?

5/20/2026

The ROI of immigration, productivity, identity, crime, housing pressure, national cohesion, secularism, terrorism, and elite competence

What Do Muslim Immigrants Think in the West?

5/14/2026

Across the US and several European countries, opinions range from moderate to radical Islamist. How much? Where?

What Do Muslims Believe ?

5/12/2026

Around the world, about the Values Westerners Are Worried About

50 Learnings from the War in Iran

5/10/2026

How has the world has changed since the US and Israel attacked Iran a few weeks ago?

The Ruthless Liquidity of Modern Love

5/6/2026

Sex & Relationship Updates, H1 2026

Do Women Reproduce More than Men?

4/30/2026

And the connection to incels, dating apps, AI, robots, immigration, feminism, polygamy, prostitution, and more

Why Did Islam Spread So Fast in North Africa & Spain?

4/24/2026

Opponent weakness, incentives, taxes, ecology, nomads, land

How Did Islam Spread So Fast?

4/21/2026

It took only 25 years for Islam to go from being kicked out of a village to controlling everything from Morocco to Pakistan. How?

20 Ideas to Grow New Communities

4/17/2026

Urbanism, art, sex, dating, religion, incentives, monuments, influencers, and more

The Future of Fertility

4/14/2026

Sheila is 25. She has 17 children.

The Cold Start Problem of New Cities & States

4/9/2026

There are not enough countries. Not enough cities or jurisdictions. Here's how we can grow new ones faster.

What Products Should We Build?

4/7/2026

Digital, physical, content, shop... What should we build?

Work with Me to Change the World of Media with AI

4/3/2026

Work with me to make it happen

Why Florence Started the Renaissance

3/25/2026

A combination of geographic luck, network effects, and vagaries of history. Can we replicate them today?

How Western Religion Drove Its Architectural Evolution

3/19/2026

After the Romans fell, the Byzantines took the witness and continued improving its architecture, while in the West architecture tech was lost, and rebuilt with Romanesque & Gothic

How Roman Technology Drove Its Architecture

3/17/2026

The Romans had 3 architecture problems they wanted to solve: bigger indoor spaces, building faster and cheaper, and more indoor comfort. How did they solve them?