Ben PodgurskyLegislative Performance Futures — Incentivize Good Laws by Monetizing the FutureThere are net-positive legislative policies which legislators won’t enact, because they only help people in the medium to far future. For…6 min read·Mar 15, 2021----
Ben PodgurskyGPT-3 is the Elephant, not the RiderThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt explains the link between our conscious, calculating mind and our subconscious, instinctive mind with…7 min read·Jul 20, 2020----
Ben PodgurskyBad Blood: Theranos, Yelp reviews, and LinkedIn profile viewsBad Blood is the history of Theranos. It’s written by John Carreyrou. John is not just some random journalist-turned-novelist — he’s the…5 min read·May 30, 2020----
Ben PodgurskyThe Imperial High Modernist Cathedral vs The BazaarOr: I Thought I was a Programmer but now I’m worried I’m a High Modernist10 min read·May 24, 2020----
Ben PodgurskyPeacetime Bureaucracy / Wartime BureaucracyPeacetime bureaucracy forces all tests through the CDC. Wartime bureaucracy allows hospitals to run their own tests.2 min read·Apr 30, 2020----
Ben PodgurskyThe Decadent Society: Maybe the internet isn’t actually a force for changeI recently read (well, absorbed via Audible) The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat. tl,dr (summary, not opinion):4 min read·Apr 24, 2020----
Ben PodgurskyIneffective AltruismTexas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hung up a morality piñata when he had the audacity to state, on record, that he’d be willing to take risks with…10 min read·Apr 4, 2020----
Ben PodgurskyinCloudWrightIntroducing CloudWrightToday we are announcing an open beta for CloudWright, a platform for anyone to build serverless applications in their own cloud which…6 min read·Apr 1, 2020----
Ben PodgurskyYou Should be AngryIf you are under the age of 30, in the west, your future has turned grim. In a fair world, you would be in the streets, screaming to get…10 min read·Mar 22, 2020----