What Derek Thompson thinks about benchmarks

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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein and a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025.

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1. 7 Aug 2026

   Our readingModern people are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than people in the past.

   Their wordsCombined with Nietzsche's observation, I think you could argue that moderns are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than our ancestors.

   ↗The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilizationderekthompson.org 3rd of 3 in this piece