Wow, what a year it has been. Things keep getting crazier.

Thank you for taking this journey with me. I hope I have helped you keep pace, and that you have been able to discern for yourself the parts of this avalanche of words and events that were helpful. I hope to have helped things make somewhat more sense.

And I hope many of you have taken that information, and used it not only to be able to check Twitter less, but also to make better decisions, and, hopefully, to help make the world a better place—one in which humanity is more likely to survive.

Recently, my coverage of the Biden administration executive order and the events at OpenAI have been received very positively. I’d like to do more in that mold: more focused, shorter pieces that pull the story together, hopefully de-emphasizing more ephemeral weekly [...]

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(01:32) Balsa First Targets the Jones Act

(04:01) Other Balsa Cause Areas

(04:12) Housing

(05:47) NEPA

(08:16) AI

(12:00) Funding Situation

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