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Progress
Innovation
Innovation Centers, Labs and Institutes
Billionaires' Fix-Civilization Projects (good and bad)
Emerson Collective (2004)
The Atlantic Monthly (1857)
Atlantic Writers
Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson (Substack)
Attachments
www.derekthompson.org
Parents
Derek Thompson
Substack Pubs
Children
‘Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question.’
A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird
Bad Feelings
Everything Is Changing, and Nothing Is Changing
Everything Is Television (2025, xlnt)
How ‘Zombie Flow’ Took Over Culture
How AI Could Help Cure Pancreatic Cancer
How Pickleball Explains American Culture
How to Sound Like an Expert in Any AI Bubble Debate
How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypse
I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep
Is the Smartphone Theory of Everything Wrong? A Comprehensive Investigation
Is This the End of Booze?
The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)
The AI Boom Has Entered Its 'Wait, Is This Worth It?' Phase
The AI Vibe Shift Has Officially Arrived
The Big Question Lurking Beneath the AI Debate
The Derek Thompson Substack Birthday! An Overview of the Business and What’s Next
The Doomsday Scenario for AI and Jobs
The End of Thinking
The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse
The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think
The Great American Fitness Boom
The Iran War Is Ending. Everybody Lost.
The Most Important Chart in AI Is Also the Most Misunderstood
The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet
The Obscure Media Theory That Explains '99% of Everything'
The Substack-ification of American Religion
This War's Economic Crisis Could Get Much Worse—For the U.S. and the Whole World
We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America
We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI
What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Government Report Says About Who We Are
What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern
Why 'Cost Disease' Is the Secret Force Behind America's Toxic Solitude
Why Americans Stopped Falling in Love
Why Are Men So Bad at Making—and Keeping—Friends?
Why Can't People Agree on a Shared Set of Facts?
Why Do the Best Leaders Fail at the Most Important Job?
Why the Healthiest Generation Is the Loneliest
Why Your Best Ideas Aren’t Original
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner