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How America builds real things again
America should embrace its superpower: innovation. Innovation brings abundance, where everyone wins.
Apr 27, 2025


Dire wolves and the age of miracles
More beneficial to humankind than AI
Apr 20, 2025


Our secret plan to change the world
I'm writing you from a sun-bleached refinery town just outside Los Angeles.
Apr 6, 2025


The next Silicon Valley
The Rational Optimist Diary is moving…
Mar 28, 2025


Manufactured on Luna
After 50 years of stagnation, humanity is returning to the Moon…
Mar 20, 2025


Why AI is not a job killer
This is the one job AI can’t replace…
Mar 13, 2025


Shhhh… supersonic, without the boom
Where will you go when supersonic travel shrinks the world?
Mar 9, 2025


The year of the robot
“Everything that moves will be robotic”…
Mar 2, 2025


Breakfast with the godfather of Rational Optimism
This is what Matt Ridley had to say about today’s breakthrough technologies…
Feb 23, 2025


Welcome to the future we were promised
The future is happening—fast.
Feb 14, 2025


The rational optimist guide to using AI
This will be the first of many diaries where we explore how to use this incredible new technology.
Feb 9, 2025


Honey, crank up the sun
What if, instead of watching helplessly as nature wreaks havoc, we could control it?
Feb 2, 2025


WTF happened in 2024?
If I’m right, America’s next chapter will be its best. The next 50 years will look radically different than the last 50.
Jan 29, 2025


Part #4: The innovation feast and you
Here’s how Rational Optimists should prepare for the innovation avalanche…
Jan 26, 2025


Part #3: The Final Frontiers
From AI to rocket launches, we’re entering a new age of tech innovation…
Jan 19, 2025


Part #2: The Five Frontiers
Welcome to the “innovation feast”…
Jan 12, 2025


WTF happened in 2024?
2024 marks the end of the innovation slump…
Jan 5, 2025


Meet your fellow Rational Optimists
Today, we’re publishing your answers to our request from last week to tell your fellow Rational Optimists about yourselves.
Dec 26, 2024


The awesome future of nanotech
Nanotech could one day create real-life superheroes...
Dec 22, 2024


Lasers, hot rocks, and endless energy
The energy revolution lies under our feet…
Dec 12, 2024
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