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Economy

The Productivity Mirage

American workers are more productive than at any point in history. American workers have not seen meaningful wage gains in decades. These two facts are not a paradox. They are a policy choice.

Daniel Hirschberg11 min read
Ideas

Against Optimization

The language of optimization has escaped its technical origins and colonized the way we think about time, attention, relationships, and the self. What we have lost in the translation is the idea that some things should not be made more efficient.

Thomas Achebe12 min read