Hello Tomorrow Podcast

This is my love letter to Spaceship Earth — and my honest reckoning with why we keep trying to leave it.

Has the word "neoliberalism" ever come up in your conversations? This word has absolutely been running your life, even if it's never once come out of your mouth.

Should you be scared of A.I.? Probably yes. But almost certainly not for the reasons you think…

The technology is too far along, the capital too committed, the infrastructure too deep. A.I. is going to work. The only question that actually matters is: work for whom?

In 2024, global employee engagement fell to near-pandemic levels… without a pandemic. The crisis isn't one thing, it's everything, all colliding at once, and we have no framework for processing any of it.

We already have the technology to build a genuinely extraordinary future... so why aren't we building it?

Everyone keeps asking “Can we prevent an A.I. crisis?” History suggests: probably not. And more importantly… we actually don't want to. But we can shorten its pain. And that distinction is everything.

In 2009, I walked into a grad school class called "Lean Management and Building Shareholder Value" and expected to be bored out of my mind. Instead, it was where I first heard an idea that's guided how I think about literally everything since.

Nobody understands the federal budget. Not you, not me, not most people in government. And that's not a bug… it's the system working exactly as designed.

The people capturing the gains from A.I. are hiring lobbyists, funding campaigns, and having dinner with senators. Meanwhile, a lot of us are on the sidelines saying, "What's the point; government is worthless!"

Money isn't a thing. It's a promise. And once you see that, everything else — global debt, the gold standard, the petrodollar, even billionaires — clicks into place as one story.

Two groups of people tell me the future is decided. One says a dystopian hellhole is inevitable. The other says abundance is inevitable. Completely different futures, both hiding a faulty core assumption: “inevitability.”

Everything A.I. can do, it learned from us. Our language. Our knowledge. Our data. But are you seeing the returns, or just the disruption? We all deserve better!

The barrier between having an idea and reaching a million people has never been smaller. So why are most brilliant ideas still dying in someone's head?

A few days ago I asked A.I. to summarize an article for me. The article was about how speed has become more important than depth. It took me a second to get the irony.

If work feels draining, housing feels impossible, healthcare feels deadly, and debt feels endless… that's not a coincidence. It's our economic operating system working exactly as designed.

You’re not broke because you made bad choices. You’re broke because the system needs you to stay that way. This isn't a conspiracy. It's just "good capitalism."

Everybody's asking "Will A.I. take my job?" but the right question is: “What happens if A.I. actually succeeds?” If A.I. eliminates human labor, who's left to buy anything??

A lot of people seem to think that if the A.I. bubble bursts, A.I. goes away. But that's not how bubbles work.

Replacing capitalism sounds terrifying. And that fear you feel? It's not irrational… it's been carefully designed.

I'm optimistic about the coming crisis. Not despite it… BECAUSE of it.

Capitalism doesn't need you to win. It needs you to BELIEVE you can win… because that belief keeps you grinding.

The most radical thing we can do in a crisis is to imagine a better future. Here's why we need optimism more than ever.

Your job isn't being killed by A.I., it's been dying for 50 years. A.I. is just finishing what Milton Friedman started.

Democracy requires informed participants, but the U.S. has spent 250 years making sure you aren't one. Here's how we change that.