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Lessons from Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark, builder of Craigslist, organized local communities through a plain-text classifieds site and wagered that simplicity and decent treatment outperform profit maximization, carrying that ethic from hands-on customer service into support for journalism and cybersecurity.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Coleman Hughes

Coleman Hughes, a writer and podcaster, defends colorblind public policy and universal humanism against identity-based orthodoxies, emphasizing individual agency, class, and culture over race-centered approaches to racial disparities in The End of Race Politics.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Chris Arnade

Chris Arnade, a former Wall Street bond trader turned photographer and interviewer, documents poverty and community through the divide between America’s credentialed “front row” and working-class “back row,” challenging the reach and assumptions of elite technocracy.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Charles C. Mann

Charles C. Mann, a science journalist known for 1491 and 1493, dismantles the myth of an untouched pre-Columbian Americas, tracing indigenous societies, disease-driven demographic collapse, the biological fallout of European contact, and competing strategies for environmental survival.
Profile 12 min read

Lessons from Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer, a science journalist covering biology and evolution, uses parasites, the boundaries of biological life, and other strange natural realities to show how sustained scientific inquiry unsettles everyday assumptions and resists deceptively simple definitions.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Bruno Maçães

Bruno Maçães, a Portuguese political scientist and former government minister, tracks shifting global power through the idea of a single Eurasian supercontinent, examining how technology, China’s rise, and American politics may reshape modern statecraft and world order.
Profile 14 min read

Lessons from Brad DeLong

Brad DeLong, a UC Berkeley economic historian and former U.S. Treasury official, argues that the technological leaps of 1870 created immense wealth without curing basic human dissatisfaction, illuminating economic growth, market limits, and macroeconomic policy.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Blake Scholl

Blake Scholl, founder of Boom Supersonic, taught himself aerospace engineering to confront the economic and technical failures that grounded Concorde. His work asks how disciplined hardware development and faster passenger flight can challenge technological stagnation.

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