How to Read the Future

Aleix

Aleix interviews builders, funders, scientists, and writers about what changes if their work succeeds.

Episodes

  1. 24 Jul

    The Modern Patron: How Patrick Collison Reads the Future

    A short profile of Patrick Collison's method for reading the future: study history, compare it with the present, find the bottleneck, and build new institutions or markets to remove it.

  2. 16 Jul

    The Patrons of Progress

    Michael Gibson, co-founder and general partner at 1517 Fund and one of the people behind the Thiel Fellowship, joins Aleix to ask who gets to fund the future. From Renaissance patronage and Girardian competition to belief capital, AI, startup cities, fusion, and the classics, Gibson argues that progress depends on backing outsiders before institutions recognize them—and on builders outrunning political stagnation.

    The Patrons of Progress
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Aleix interviews builders, funders, scientists, and writers about what changes if their work succeeds.

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