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6 days ago | 
nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright |Danny Fenster
Welcome to issue #2 of the revamped Earthling! The idea is to give you more items than before, in shorter and more digestible form, and to accomplish several things in the process: review some of the week’s biggest developments, often with Earthlingesque context that you wouldn’t find in other media outlets; call your attention to less noted but (by Earthling lights) notable things; occasionally just have some fun.
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1 week ago | 
nonzero.org | Robert Wright |Connor Echols
Welcome to the new, revamped Earthling! Before I explain what’s changed about it, here’s what stays constant: The Earthling will still be the weekend edition of the NonZero Newsletter, and will still feature a mixture of the week’s news and analysis. What it won’t feature is the old Earthling’s mixture of journalistic genres; we won’t have a few short, snack-sized items, followed by a longish main course, followed by some side orders.
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2 weeks ago | 
nonzero.org | Robert Wright |Connor Echols
Note: Next Friday we’ll unveil a new, crisper format for the Earthling and will outline some accompanying changes in the overall NZN content flow. And next Thursday (May 1—save the date!) at 8 pm US Eastern Time I’ll do a Zoom call with paid subscribers to talk about the fate of humankind and anything else I’m asked about (including those Earthling/NZN changes).
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1 month ago | 
nonzero.org | Robert Wright |Connor Echols
Note: If you want to listen to the livestream I did on YouTube with Nikita Petrov and Boris Shoshitaishvili last Friday, it’s now on the NonZero podcast feed. And if you want to join Nikita and Boris for their next livestream—the official launch of their kosmic new show Kosmopolitika—just click this link this Monday, April 14, at 1 pm US Eastern Time.
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1 month ago | 
nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright
—In a move that CNN called a “massive show of force” aimed at Iran and Yemen’s Houthis, the US military moved six B-2 bombers to an island base in the Indian Ocean. B-2s can carry the largest bombs in the US arsenal, including “bunker busters” that could destroy underground Houthi hideouts or underground Iranian nuclear facilities.
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1 month ago | 
nonzero.org | Jefferson Morley |Robert Wright
This episode includes an Overtime segment that’s available to paid subscribers. If you’re not a paid subscriber, we of course encourage you to become one. If you are a paid subscriber, you can access the complete conversation either via the audio and video on this post or by setting up the paid-subscriber podcast feed, which includes all exclusive audio content.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
nonzero.org | Robert Wright |Mark Leon Goldberg |Robert Wright
This episode includes an Overtime segment that’s available to paid subscribers. If you’re not a paid subscriber, we of course encourage you to become one. If you are a paid subscriber, you can access the complete conversation either via the audio and video on this post or by setting up the paid-subscriber podcast feed, which includes all exclusive audio content.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
nonzero.org | Peter Beinart |Robert Wright
This episode includes an Overtime segment that’s available to paid subscribers. If you’re not a paid subscriber, we of course encourage you to become one. If you are a paid subscriber, you can access the complete conversation either via the audio and video on this post or by setting up the paid-subscriber podcast feed, which includes all exclusive audio content.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Robert Wright
“Progressive realism”, according to Wikipedia, is “a foreign policy paradigm largely made popular by Robert Wright”. That’s me! So in principle I should have been gratified by the recent Foreign Affairs essay “The Case for Progressive Realism”, by British politician David Lammy. And I should be close to ecstatic now that Lammy, thanks to the Labour Party victory in last week’s election, is Britain’s foreign secretary. Yet I’m not feeling festive.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
medium.com | Robert Wright
Procrastination — a common foe that plagues many of us at one point or another on our journey towards productivity and success. Whether it’s putting off important tasks, delaying decision-making, or succumbing to distractions, procrastination can hinder our progress and prevent us from reaching our full potential. However, with the right strategies and mindset, we can overcome procrastination and unlock our productivity.
