The Psychology of Ambition

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

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

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

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.

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress—a digest of posts from rootsofprogress.org

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.

writing toward aliveness

Economics and other interesting stuff

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

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

I write about things my wife Johanna and I talk about: relationships, self-direction, literature, agency, etc. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea with our two daughters.

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

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

Become the leader people love to follow - in 5 laugh-out-loud minutes a week

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

“...the future of modern society and the stability of its inner life depend in large part of the maintenance of an equilibrium between the strength of the techniques of communication and the capacity of the individual’s own reaction."— Pope Pius XII, 1950

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

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

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

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

Liberal Arts for the Twenty-first Century.

Miscellaneous thoughts as I figure out life

A biased observer in America.

interintellect.com

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.

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

Unlearning

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

Notes from a detransitioner

Smells and/or emotions

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

all models are wrong, but some are useful

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

Some light for your daily chariot ride across the earth.

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

The next hundred years of Montessori

A woman speaking her truth

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

Broadcasting the weekly internal memos of Higher Ground Education