Writing
The Economist
- What would humans do in a world of super-AI?, May 23 2023
- Just how good can China get at generative AI?, May 9 2023
- How generative models could go wrong, Apr 19 2023*
- The world’s interest bill is $13trn–and rising, Feb 19, 2023
- Battle of the boffins: The race of the AI labs heats up, Jan 30 2023
- Free exchange: Have economists misunderstood inflation?, Jan 26 2023
- Buttonwood: Venture capital’s $300bn question, Jan 18 2023
- Has economics run out of big new ideas?, Jan 12 2023
- How technology is redrawing the boundaries of the firm, Jan 8 2023, interviewed on CNBC’s The Exchange
- The new tech worldview, Dec 20 2022
- The Economist Explains: What is long-termism?, Nov 22 2022
- What Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall means for effective altruism, Nov 17 2022
- Free Exchange: How best to bring back manufacturing, Nov 3 2022
- Free Exchange: How to escape scientific stagnation, Oct 26 2022
- Mothering Invention: China and the West are in a race to foster innovation, Oct 13 2022,* interviewed on CBC Radio’s ‘Eye on the World’ Part 1, Part 2
- Free Exchange: Richer societies mean fewer babies. Right?, Sep 15 2022
- What to read to understanding central banking, Sep 7 2022
- What to read to understand “effective altruism”, Aug 24 2022
- Can tech reshape the Pentagon?, Aug 8, 2022
- Buttonwood: Why markets really are less certain than they used to be, Jul 14, 2022
- Can Watershed corner the market for carbon accounting?, Jul 21, 2022
- The new atlas: Can Silicon Valley still dominate global innovation?, Apr 16, 2022
- Punting profits: Will prediction markets live up to the hype?, Feb 19, 2022
- The bill balloons: The global interest bill is about to jump, Feb 5 2022
- What are stablecoins, such as Tether?, Dec 16 2021
- Adventure capitalism: Startup finance goes global, Nov 27 2021*
- Something ventured something gained: The bright new age of venture capital, Nov 27 2021*
- The used-car conundrum: A handful of items are driving inflation in America, Nov 6 2021
- The real-time revolution: Enter third-wave economics, Oct 23 2021*
- NFTs are not just for digital art-and their popularity is growing, Oct 22 2021
- Rental resurgence: Another upward force on American inflation, Oct 16 2021
- What’s wrong with America’s consumer price index?, Oct 13 2021
- Green party: A wave of green government bonds is flooding markets, Oct 9 2021
- Polarisation paradox: Is political polarisation in America really rising?, Oct 5 2021
- Labour’s share in national income is both over- and under-explained, Sep 18 2021
*cover package
Podcasts
- Babbage: How worrying is generative AI?, Apr 2023
- The changing ideology of Silicon Valley, Dec 2022
- Cryptocalypse
- The new economics of fertility, Sep 2022
- Can tech reshape the pentagon?
- Veni, vidi, vc: the new age of venture capital, Nov 2021
- Inflated expectations, Nov 2021
Journalistic panels and moderations
- Oxford Synthetic media conference, Panel, January 2023
- London School of Economics Alternative Investments Conference, Panel, January 2023
- European Union Regions & Cities Conference, Panel, October 2022
Other writing
The Stanford Daily
- Senior column: Accepting randomness, Jun 12, 2021
- Concerned about skipping the line? Students grapple with the ethical dilemas of early vaccination, Apr 11, 2021
- Tracking COVID-19 at Stanford, Oct 11, 2020
- I will miss everything: Student survey shows changed plans for many in the new academic year, Sep 28 2020
- The class of 2020 by the numbers, Jun 14 2020
- The 2020 ASSU elections: A primer for contested races, May 19 2020
- A closer look at Stanford students’ COVID-19 petitions, May 6 2020
- Experts discuss AI’s potential to combat COVID-19, noting caveats, Apr 2 2020
- Stanford as a VC, Mar 5 2020