The Psychology of Ambition

NYC abundance—more people, more housing, more opportunity, more greatness than ever.

Personal insights into life in a dictatorship vs. a free country, resilience, value of progress, and what it takes to fight injustice. Real-life accounts from someone who fought his way through enslavement to live in freedom.

I write essays about relationships, agency, and creativity. I hang with our kids. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

The Come Up highlights successful business owners’ come-up stories in an easy-to-read format.

My thoughts as a Gen Z woman navigating the world post-woke mentality

Helping leaders become exceptional champions of the ideas that matter most.

Miscellaneous thoughts as I figure out life

Unlearning

The intersection of psychology, ambition, and creation. It’s not about how to build a startup - it’s about what building a startup does to you.

Notes from a detransitioner

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Founder/CEO, Boom Supersonic. Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to move fast.

A biased observer in America.

Most leadership newsletters tell you what to do. This one tells you who you are Every week is another "Holy s**t, that's me!" - with enough storytelling to make it stick, and enough humor to make the coffee come out your nose.

✍️ Finding meaning by staying in place. Living in Barcelona & renovating a 250-year-old home in the countryside. 🏠🇪🇸

Exploring urbanism, housing, and how to make cities work for everyone

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Learn directly from an 19-year-old who achieved a perfect SAT score and top university admissions—all without traditional schooling

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress, plus announcements from the Roots of Progress Institute

all models are wrong, but some are useful

building the world I want my grandchildren to live in, one tiny step at a time

writing toward aliveness

Unexpected takes on the modern world of work. Paul explores our obsession with work and the default path of success and tries to imagine new possibilities for how we can conceive of life, work & what matters.

interintellect.com

A deeper look at leadership, culture, and connection. How we talk to each other, how we think, how we lead, and how we live together. From friendship to business to parenting, let's talk about all of it.

"'There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief." – All Along the Watchtower, Bob Dylan (1967)

Some light for your daily chariot ride across the earth.

Economics and other interesting stuff

YC and a16z founder writing life principles and fiction that asks questions

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Liberal Arts for the Twenty-first Century.

Smells and/or emotions

Trying to make sense of AI, future of work and human condition.

The Progress Forum is the online home for the progress community. This digest is a selection of the best posts.

Read their story. Grow the courage to write your own.

Broadcasting the weekly internal memos of Higher Ground Education

The next hundred years of Montessori

A woman speaking her truth