About Random Walks
This Substack is an ongoing project to develop better answers to three questions:
What might the end of history actually look like (if there is one)?
What will emerging technology do to social structures (and vice versa)?
What should we do in the meantime?
I’m a Silicon Valley native who’s split his twenties between the Bay Area, DC, and a series of countries that don’t thrill my mom. I studied history and law, and have worked in geopolitics, global development, and tech policy. Mostly, I’m interested in making the world a little better than it was.
What’s with the name?
In math and physics, a “random walk” is a series of unpredictable steps. Only when you zoom out does the sequence occasionally reveal larger, more profound patterns. I think of both this project and our world as intellectual random walks. (That, and I’m a Walker myself.)
