Why going to Mars right now is completely stupid

I built a company that worked. It cut burnout and boosted psychological safety. It also bankrupted me. That failure sent me chasing a better question, and the answer is my new book.

The U.S. used to make grand, global arguments for a better future at World’s Fairs. In 1999, we passed a law prohibiting federal funds from being spent on them — we legislated ourselves out of imagination.

In the U.S., you get healthcare via full time employment. Now, A.I. is poised to turn us all into gig workers. You see the problem, right?

This is my love letter to Spaceship Earth — and my honest reckoning with why we keep trying to leave it.

Has the word "neoliberalism" ever come up in your conversations? This word has absolutely been running your life, even if it's never once come out of your mouth.

Should you be scared of A.I.? Probably yes. But almost certainly not for the reasons you think…

The technology is too far along, the capital too committed, the infrastructure too deep. A.I. is going to work. The only question that actually matters is: work for whom?

In 2024, global employee engagement fell to near-pandemic levels… without a pandemic. The crisis isn't one thing, it's everything, all colliding at once, and we have no framework for processing any of it.

We already have the technology to build a genuinely extraordinary future... so why aren't we building it?

Everyone keeps asking “Can we prevent an A.I. crisis?” History suggests: probably not. And more importantly… we actually don't want to. But we can shorten its pain. And that distinction is everything.