The learning continues with discussions about Global Improvements and Wellbeing Sphere Education Initiative #sphereteachers #Spheresummit2025 #SphereSummit

In the 1930s, US corn yields averaged 26 bushels per acre. Today, that number is 179.3 bushels per acre—with top-performing farms reaching an astonishing 624 bushels. humanprogress.org/cornpreneurs-s…

TIME wow so avant-garde, if only people like Gale Pooley & Marian L Tupy & Elon Musk weren't making this argument FOR YEARS I might be impressed.

In honor of 4th of July: The time to consume one hot dog in the international contest has fallen by 96.3 percent since 1967. galepooley.substack.com/p/hot-dog-cons…

Starlink Mini setup in minutes at rural school in Zambia. School didn't even have a formal address or electricity. Starlink ran off a portable solar panel and 100w battery, giving 150mb internet. Incredibly efficient. These elementary children in rural Africa will have

Drone Abundance For the time price of one drone in 2013, unskilled workers get almost 20 today. tinyurl.com/45y4k982

Perhaps the most important fertility paper of 2025 just published, by Kearney and Levine. Surveying > 100 papers, the authors argue economists need to "move beyond opportunity costs, prices, and income" to consider culture (social influences, institutions and norms). Link below.

A recent study investigated how US resource consumption has changed since 1970. They found that, out of the 100 commodities examined, the consumption of: - 8 grew faster than GDP - 51 grew slower than GDP - 41 fell in absolute terms. humanprogress.org/americas-commo…

Capitalism doesn't reward the most ruthless—it rewards those who create the most value for others. The path to profit is paved with problem-solving.

Me too.

I read The Rational Optimist at a time when it would’ve been easy to believe the world was broken beyond repair. Instead, it gave me a new lens: one where progress is real, and where ordinary people shape the future, bit by bit and day by day. As such, I couldn't be more excited

Many countries are becoming safe harbors for AI startups — offering low taxes, friendly regulations, and innovation-first policies. Will the US compete? Or get left behind? Read Gale Pooley's latest at The Daily Economy: thedailyeconomy.org/article/will-t…

Disney’s Best Economics Cartoon Creative innovators versus exploiting oppressors. galepooley.substack.com/p/disneys-best…

Consumption Equality is a much better way to measure than Income Inequality. Don’t let envy make you miserable.

No one would go to a specialty ethnic restaurant today that serves what the average person from that country ate in, say, 1800. What we serve today is the "once in a lifetime wedding feast for the firstborn son" version of average person food.

"AI can process vast amounts of data—but always from the past. Economic action, by contrast, is forward-looking. An algorithm may extrapolate trends, but it can’t anticipate innovation and changing tastes. It can’t discover what hasn’t been imagined."

Spencer's Law: "The Less of a Problem There Is, the More That Is Written about It." fee.org/articles/spenc…