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James Pethokoukis
Personal blog · fasterplease.substack.comeconomicspolitics
James Pethokoukis writes Faster Please!, a personal blog at fasterplease.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2022, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2k years ago, and why it didn’t”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.
Most-linked posts?
- What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2k years ago, and why it didn’t2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-12
What Hacker News says?
Submitted The war on gifted education as a story · 264 points
HN discussionSubmitted Global fertility isn't just declining, it's collapsing as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation, pro-progress policy, metascience, and more as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reversing the global fertility collapse: Tech progress might be the answer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Less 'Dune,' More 'Foundation' as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why optimistic science fiction is still possible and important as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI and the radiologist apocalypse that wasn't as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chaos theorist Doyne Farmer on our interconnected economy (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of AI and the Great Upshift: 2024 Hopes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promise as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imagine an America with Steep Billionaire Taxes. No Amazon, Pixar, SpaceX, Tesla as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2k years ago, and why it didn’t as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2k years ago rather than 200? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weight-loss drugs seem like another bit of sci-fi becoming fact as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “My God, it's full of stars ” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why an Elon Musk-run Twitter might surprise both Left and Right as a story · 1 points
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