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Gabriel Weinberg
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Founder, DuckDuckGo. Co-author, Traction. Co-author, Super Thinking. Writing personally at gabrielweinberg.com
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Hello Bluesky! 🦆
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🆕✍️ China has a major working-age population advantage through at least 2075. Given this advantage, they have a path to dwarf the U.S. economy. gabrielweinberg.com/p/china-has-...
China has a major working-age population advantage through at least 2075
Given this advantage, they have a path to dwarf the U.S. economy
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November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🆕✍️ Introducing Duck Tales: New audio/video interview series taking you inside DuckDuckGo gabrielweinberg.com/p/introducin...
Introducing Duck Tales
New audio/video interview series taking you inside DuckDuckGo
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November 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🆕✍️ Total Factor Productivity needs a rebrand (and if you don't know what that is you probably should).

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Total Factor Productivity needs a rebrand (and if you don't know what that is you probably should).
The name of this hidden driver of prosperity is unappealing and not self-defining to mainstream people. What should it be called instead?
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November 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🆕✍️ Is consumer AI heading for a duopoly? gabrielweinberg.com/p/consumer-a...
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🆕✍️ The paradox of progress gabrielweinberg.com/p/the-parado...

If progress = rising living standards, why doesn’t a progress agenda command top billing in U.S. politics?
• Timescale mismatch.
• Change aversion.
• Lacking urgency.
The paradox of progress
If progress = rising living standards, why doesn’t a progress agenda command top billing in U.S. politics?
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October 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🆕✍️ The overlooked front in the browser wars gabrielweinberg.com/p/the-overlo...
The overlooked front in the browser wars
Seamless workflows bridging search, browsing, and AI
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October 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🆕✍️ What banning AI surveillance should look like, at a minimum gabrielweinberg.com/p/what-banni...

Prohibited practices, others that face higher scrutiny, and the rest at least transparent and optional
What banning AI surveillance should look like, at a minimum
Prohibited practices, others that face higher scrutiny, and the rest at least transparent and optional
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September 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🆕✍️ On reddit, roughly 500 views = 1 click gabrielweinberg.com/p/on-reddit-...
On reddit, roughly 500 views = 1 click
175,000 reddit views generated just 310 clicks, a 0.18% CTR
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September 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🆕✍️ A U.S.-China tech tie is a big win for China because of its population advantage gabrielweinberg.com/p/a-us-china...
A U.S.-China tech tie is a big win for China because of its population advantage
China’s population is declining, but UN projections show it will remain at least twice the size of the U.S.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🆕✍️

AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time. All the same privacy harms with online tracking are also present with AI, but worse.

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AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.
All the same privacy harms with online tracking are also present with AI, but worse.
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September 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
My statement on the US v Google remedies: x.com/DuckDuckGo/s....

Tl;dr 👎 for consumers. Monopoly business continues as usual for Google.
September 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🆕✍️ Progress isn't automatic: It takes considerable effort, education, organization, and money

Blog post link: gabrielweinberg.com/p/progress-i...
Progress isn't automatic
It takes considerable effort, education, organization, and money
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August 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🆕 ✍️ Musings on evergreen content

Blog post link: gabrielweinberg.com/p/musings-on...

(I actually put this out on Sat but forgot to post to social.)
Musings on evergreen content
Building an audience for ideas that last
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August 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🆕 Post gabrielweinberg.com/p/rule-3-eve...

Rule #3: Every decision involves trade-offs
Rule #3: Every decision involves trade-offs
One of the universal rules of decision-making is that every decision involves trade-offs.
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August 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🆕 Post gabrielweinberg.com/p/9-ways-duc...

9 ways DuckDuckGo's Search Assist Differs from Google’s AI Overviews: Seeking better UX for AI-assisted search answers at DuckDuckGo
9 ways DuckDuckGo's Search Assist Differs from Google’s AI Overviews
Seeking better UX for AI-assisted search answers at DuckDuckGo
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July 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
🆕 Post gabrielweinberg.com/p/the-key-to...

The key to increasing standard of living is increasing labor productivity: Unpacking this counterintuitive conclusion
The key to increasing standard of living is increasing labor productivity
Unpacking this counterintuitive conclusion
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July 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🆕 post: Most chatbot users miss this key setting, so we moved it up front.

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Most chatbot users miss this key setting, so we moved it up front
Making it easier and more intuitive to change the system prompt in duck.ai
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July 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🆕 post: The debate over a potential economic bump from AI points to a much larger economic opportunity.

We can turn temporary economic productivity bumps into permanent higher economic growth through sustained higher investment in basic research.

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The debate over a potential economic bump from AI points to a much larger economic opportunity.
We can turn temporary economic productivity bumps into permanent higher economic growth through sustained higher investment in basic research.
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July 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🆕 post: States should be allowed to regulate AI because realistically Congress won't—Let’s not give AI a decade-long free pass from regulation.

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States should be allowed to regulate AI because realistically Congress won't
Let’s not give AI a decade-long free pass from regulation.
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June 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New post.

Rule #2: There are always underlying assumptions.

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Rule #2: There are always underlying assumptions.
When properly assessing any conclusion, it is essential to enumerate the underlying assumptions.
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June 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
New post: gabrielweinberg.com/p/issues-wit...

Issues with widespread bipartisan agreement that never go anywhere: A marker for why we need more structural governance reform.
Issues with widespread bipartisan agreement that never go anywhere
A marker for why we need more structural governance reform.
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June 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New post: U.S. AI-labor protests could eventually resemble the French Yellow-Vest protests

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U.S. AI-labor protests could eventually resemble the French Yellow-Vest protests
When millions recently took to the streets over economic insecurity.
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June 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
New post: How science funding literally pays for itself (By growing the economy enough that future tax revenues exceed initial expenditure.) gabrielweinberg.com/p/how-scienc...
How science funding literally pays for itself
By growing the economy enough that future tax revenues exceed initial expenditure.
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May 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Found this baby deer hanging out in our yard this morning.
May 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM