Faster, Please!
@fasterplease.skystack.xyz
Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.
This is an automated Substack Account of https://fasterplease.substack.com
Discover more/Create at: @skystack.xyz
This is an automated Substack Account of https://fasterplease.substack.com
Discover more/Create at: @skystack.xyz
✨ Don’t expect an AI job apocalypse • Goldman Sachs sees meaningful AI-driven displacement, but little evidence that technology will permanently sideline human workers. It's analysis worth paying attention to
✨ Don’t expect an AI job apocalypse
Goldman Sachs sees meaningful AI-driven displacement, but little evidence that technology will permanently sideline human workers. It's analysis worth paying attention to
fasterplease.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:22 AM
✨ Don’t expect an AI job apocalypse • Goldman Sachs sees meaningful AI-driven displacement, but little evidence that technology will permanently sideline human workers. It's analysis worth paying attention to
✨ AI agents are a real thing and doing real work • Forget the sci-fi timeline (for now). The economic payoff from AI is already happening one shippingt quote at a time
✨ AI agents are a real thing and doing real work
Forget the sci-fi timeline (for now). The economic payoff from AI is already happening one shippingt quote at a time
fasterplease.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
✨ AI agents are a real thing and doing real work • Forget the sci-fi timeline (for now). The economic payoff from AI is already happening one shippingt quote at a time
😱 The stories that teach America to fear the future • From AI dystopias to data-center panic, our culture has trained us to treat progress as a threat in waiting
😱 The stories that teach America to fear the future
From AI dystopias to data-center panic, our culture has trained us to treat progress as a threat in waiting
fasterplease.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:23 AM
😱 The stories that teach America to fear the future • From AI dystopias to data-center panic, our culture has trained us to treat progress as a threat in waiting
📈 The most underrated trend of the 2020s • A quiet acceleration in US productivity is challenging the 2010s Great Stagnation narrative — even before AI fully reshapes American work
📈 The most underrated trend of the 2020s
A quiet acceleration in US productivity is challenging the 2010s Great Stagnation narrative — even before AI fully reshapes American work
fasterplease.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:24 AM
📈 The most underrated trend of the 2020s • A quiet acceleration in US productivity is challenging the 2010s Great Stagnation narrative — even before AI fully reshapes American work
🛢️✨ What the shale boom tells us about the AI boom • History often echoes. Like shale before it, AI is devouring capital long before its economics fully settle — a queasy but familiar stage of every new general-purpose technology
🛢️✨ What the shale boom tells us about the AI boom
History often echoes. Like shale before it, AI is devouring capital long before its economics fully settle — a queasy but familiar stage of every new general-purpose technology
fasterplease.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
🛢️✨ What the shale boom tells us about the AI boom • History often echoes. Like shale before it, AI is devouring capital long before its economics fully settle — a queasy but familiar stage of every new general-purpose technology
✨ Waiting for AGI, still • As 2025 ends, AI’s superintelligence moment still lies ahead. But how far?
✨ Waiting for AGI, still
As 2025 ends, AI’s superintelligence moment still lies ahead. But how far?
fasterplease.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
✨ Waiting for AGI, still • As 2025 ends, AI’s superintelligence moment still lies ahead. But how far?
🎄Christmas: an Up Wing 'festival of optimism' • Actually, lots of pro-progress moments and milestones happened throughout 2025
🎄Christmas: an Up Wing 'festival of optimism'
Actually, lots of pro-progress moments and milestones happened throughout 2025
fasterplease.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🎄Christmas: an Up Wing 'festival of optimism' • Actually, lots of pro-progress moments and milestones happened throughout 2025
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #16 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #16
Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
fasterplease.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #16 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🌻 Climate politics hits the limits of 'no' • Clean energy progress is still being undermined by an anti-growth movement stuck in veto mode. Maybe it's time to build, instead
🌻 Climate politics hits the limits of 'no'
Clean energy progress is still being undermined by an anti-growth movement stuck in veto mode. Maybe it's time to build, instead
fasterplease.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🌻 Climate politics hits the limits of 'no' • Clean energy progress is still being undermined by an anti-growth movement stuck in veto mode. Maybe it's time to build, instead
🧬✨ An AI-genetics revolution — and arms race: A Quick Q&A with Bill Drexel • 'There is a very clear, AI-propelled trajectory to genetic engineering capabilities with vast moral implications that is getting very little air time.'
🧬✨ An AI-genetics revolution — and arms race: A Quick Q&A with Bill Drexel
'There is a very clear, AI-propelled trajectory to genetic engineering capabilities with vast moral implications that is getting very little air time.'
fasterplease.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🧬✨ An AI-genetics revolution — and arms race: A Quick Q&A with Bill Drexel • 'There is a very clear, AI-propelled trajectory to genetic engineering capabilities with vast moral implications that is getting very little air time.'
✨ Two cheers for the 'San Francisco Consensus' on AI • The case for hoping AI breaks history, while planning as if it won’t
✨ Two cheers for the 'San Francisco Consensus' on AI
The case for hoping AI breaks history, while planning as if it won’t
fasterplease.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
✨ Two cheers for the 'San Francisco Consensus' on AI • The case for hoping AI breaks history, while planning as if it won’t
🚀 After we get to Mars, then what? • Looking for life is first, everything else second
🚀 After we get to Mars, then what?
Looking for life is first, everything else second
fasterplease.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
🚀 After we get to Mars, then what? • Looking for life is first, everything else second
⚡ Tracking a 200-year energy wager • Famous futurist Herman Kahn bet that cheap, inexhaustible energy would unlock human abundance. The tools have arrived. The politics still have not
⚡ Tracking a 200-year energy wager
Famous futurist Herman Kahn bet that cheap, inexhaustible energy would unlock human abundance. The tools have arrived. The politics still have not
fasterplease.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
⚡ Tracking a 200-year energy wager • Famous futurist Herman Kahn bet that cheap, inexhaustible energy would unlock human abundance. The tools have arrived. The politics still have not
🛑🚼 The end of (demographic) history • The fertility transition is over. The future is not
🛑🚼 The end of (demographic) history
The fertility transition is over. The future is not
fasterplease.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🛑🚼 The end of (demographic) history • The fertility transition is over. The future is not
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #15 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #15
Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
fasterplease.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #15 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
💰🧪 Funding outside the box: A Quick Q&A with … philanthropy expert Stuart Buck • 'Breakthroughs are by definition a break with the status quo'
💰🧪 Funding outside the box: A Quick Q&A with … philanthropy expert Stuart Buck
'Breakthroughs are by definition a break with the status quo'
fasterplease.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
💰🧪 Funding outside the box: A Quick Q&A with … philanthropy expert Stuart Buck • 'Breakthroughs are by definition a break with the status quo'
😀😱 Of 'Pluribus' and progress • Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show asks an unsettling question: What happens when a civilization optimizes for peace over possibility — and smooths creativity and innovation out of existence?
😀😱 Of 'Pluribus' and progress
Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show asks an unsettling question: What happens when a civilization optimizes for peace over possibility — and smooths creativity and innovation out of existence?
fasterplease.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
😀😱 Of 'Pluribus' and progress • Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show asks an unsettling question: What happens when a civilization optimizes for peace over possibility — and smooths creativity and innovation out of existence?
🤖👴 AI vs. Age: The Great Offset • The future of economic growth may hinge on whether AI can merely hold the line against aging societies — or achieve something more
🤖👴 AI vs. Age: The Great Offset
The future of economic growth may hinge on whether AI can merely hold the line against aging societies — or achieve something more
fasterplease.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
🤖👴 AI vs. Age: The Great Offset • The future of economic growth may hinge on whether AI can merely hold the line against aging societies — or achieve something more
⚔️☠️ The billionaire war against death • What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
⚔️☠️ The billionaire war against death
What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
fasterplease.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
⚔️☠️ The billionaire war against death • What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #14 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #14
Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
fasterplease.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #14 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier • Faster, Please! — The Podcast #89
🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier
Faster, Please! — The Podcast #89
fasterplease.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier • Faster, Please! — The Podcast #89
⤴️ Singularity 1.0: The birth of modernity • Centuries before the Industrial Revolution roared to life, a cultural commitment to progress may have soft launched an economic transformation. There's a lesson there
⤴️ Singularity 1.0: The birth of modernity
Centuries before the Industrial Revolution roared to life, a cultural commitment to progress may have soft launched an economic transformation. There's a lesson there
fasterplease.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
⤴️ Singularity 1.0: The birth of modernity • Centuries before the Industrial Revolution roared to life, a cultural commitment to progress may have soft launched an economic transformation. There's a lesson there
✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI • Schools botched the smartphone era. They can’t afford to repeat those mistakes with artificial intelligence
✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI
Schools botched the smartphone era. They can’t afford to repeat those mistakes with artificial intelligence
fasterplease.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI • Schools botched the smartphone era. They can’t afford to repeat those mistakes with artificial intelligence
✨🗽 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on AI and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too! • A Flashback Friday conversation
✨🗽 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on AI and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!
A Flashback Friday conversation
fasterplease.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
✨🗽 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on AI and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too! • A Flashback Friday conversation
🦅 Why the US outgrows Europe, unfortunately • Take no joy in this, my friends. America’s tech + productivity edge keeps widening, but a faltering Europe leaves Washington without the strong partner it needs in a world increasingly shaped by China
🦅 Why the US outgrows Europe, unfortunately
Take no joy in this, my friends. America’s tech + productivity edge keeps widening, but a faltering Europe leaves Washington without the strong partner it needs in a world increasingly shaped by China
fasterplease.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🦅 Why the US outgrows Europe, unfortunately • Take no joy in this, my friends. America’s tech + productivity edge keeps widening, but a faltering Europe leaves Washington without the strong partner it needs in a world increasingly shaped by China