12.2: How I Think — Azeem Azhar


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Oct 12 2021 25 mins   1

Azeem Azhar writes the Exponential View, a newsletter about accelerating technological change and its consequences.

Azeem’s new book is phenomenal — Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do.

We talk with Azheem about how he researches to aggregate information and turn it into such sharp insights:

* Is there value in reading material you don’t understand?

* What’s the non-ergodicity of scientific progress?

* What does perceptive technology writing have in common with social justice?



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