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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: It’s rational to be optimistic about the progress of humanity, but there are a few potential disruptors...
I’ve long believed that engineers, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, and private sector workers do far more to improve people’s lives than do politicians. I’ve also long believed that the standard of living for the vast majority of people on earth has never been better, continues to improve, and will improve for the foreseeable future, barring a civilization-threatening event such as a deadly manmade global pandemic. Author Matt Ridley believes as I do, and provides supporting evidence for these views in The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves...
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