David Schatsky
@dschatsky.bsky.social
Business/tech trends, AI, economics/public policy, mild sarcasm.
Tech and Geopolitics Fellow, @belfercenter.bsky.social / @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
Founder, Tenon Research
Posing/answering key questions about AI: https://unfoldingai.substack.com/
Tech and Geopolitics Fellow, @belfercenter.bsky.social / @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
Founder, Tenon Research
Posing/answering key questions about AI: https://unfoldingai.substack.com/
The frontiers of science:
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The frontiers of science:
You know how Covid took a couple of years of schooling away from kids?
Here are more reasons that this is bad bad bad.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Here are more reasons that this is bad bad bad.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
You know how Covid took a couple of years of schooling away from kids?
Here are more reasons that this is bad bad bad.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Here are more reasons that this is bad bad bad.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
I am always amazed by people who don't acknowledge limits to what they can accomplish.
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I am always amazed by people who don't acknowledge limits to what they can accomplish.
Return on the arts. We don't see analysis like this enough.
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Return on the arts. We don't see analysis like this enough.
To be fair, these fellows are very bright.
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
To be fair, these fellows are very bright.
It's kind of nuts that Nvidia chips are like weapons grade uranium or fentanyl.
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It's kind of nuts that Nvidia chips are like weapons grade uranium or fentanyl.
Kudos to the FT for putting "AI leader" in quotes.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Kudos to the FT for putting "AI leader" in quotes.
No. That is the whole story.
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
No. That is the whole story.
Do NOT believe your eyes
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Do NOT believe your eyes
Sigh.
Release the Epstein files first.
Release the Epstein files first.
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Sigh.
Release the Epstein files first.
Release the Epstein files first.
I found myself before a shelf of Science, & Technology Studies works
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I found myself before a shelf of Science, & Technology Studies works
I, too, commit to spending $1.5 trillion.
Hell, make it $1.6 trillion.
Hell, make it $1.6 trillion.
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I, too, commit to spending $1.5 trillion.
Hell, make it $1.6 trillion.
Hell, make it $1.6 trillion.
Businesses press Supreme Court to strike down Donald Trump’s emergency tariff power - on.ft.com/4hBsYm6 via @FT
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Businesses press Supreme Court to strike down Donald Trump’s emergency tariff power - on.ft.com/4hBsYm6 via @FT
I love those. I was unsure what financialization meant, so I asked Claude, and here's what he told me a ban might entail. What do you think?
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I love those. I was unsure what financialization meant, so I asked Claude, and here's what he told me a ban might entail. What do you think?
A couple of reasons for the slow adoption of AI. (There are several other good ones.)
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A couple of reasons for the slow adoption of AI. (There are several other good ones.)
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
A police state, by the numbers.
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A police state, by the numbers.
The GOP-led Congress is not showing up for work, not demanding answers on Trump's undeclared war in South America and the Caribbean, not objecting to troop deployments in US cities. They are doing this instead.
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The GOP-led Congress is not showing up for work, not demanding answers on Trump's undeclared war in South America and the Caribbean, not objecting to troop deployments in US cities. They are doing this instead.
Capital eats labor
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Capital eats labor
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm very excited to share that my brilliant wife's book has arrived!
Congratulations @susanbodnarphd.bsky.social !
Congratulations @susanbodnarphd.bsky.social !
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I'm very excited to share that my brilliant wife's book has arrived!
Congratulations @susanbodnarphd.bsky.social !
Congratulations @susanbodnarphd.bsky.social !