Books

now reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

less a policy book and more a systems debugging manual for a country choking on its own red tape. the vibe throughout is “what if we stopped trying to fix things by drowning them in paperwork?” and honestly, yeah.

nails how bureaucracy chokes innovation in the name of oversight, creating a vetocracy that strangles progress. where Karp’s Technological Republic mourns the loss of hard-edged builder ethos, Abundance zeroes in on the structural rot that keeps America stuck in neutral. the book’s diagnosis is brutal and compelling: we haven’t run out of ideas, we’ve just made it nearly impossible to act on them.

the core insight—gov should be a "bottleneck detective," not the bottleneck itself—feels like the inverse of the techno-doomer fatalism. 

think Boom’s “definite optimism” married to a governmental role that actually clears the way for it. read it if you’re tired of vibes-based governance and want to believe that capacity, not ideology, might be the thing that actually saves us.

just finished a mind-bending read on how bureaucracy stifles innovation. Can we please stop drowning solutions in paperwork? 📚💡 