Loeber on Substack

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John Loeber's essays on interactions between people, markets, and technology.

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Homepage: https://essays.johnloeber.com

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#33: Interviewing Patrick Wolff for California Insurance Commissioner #Politics #Business #Interviews
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May 7, 2026
#32: Contra Citrini7 (Repost) #Essays #Markets #Technology
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Mar 1, 2026
#31: Open-Source Software in the Age of AI #OpenSource #AI #Tech
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Feb 6, 2026
#30: A Plea for Silicon Valley to Enter Politics #Politics #Technology #SiliconValley
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Jan 12, 2026
#29: Poison, Poison Everywhere #Essays #Technology #Society
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Oct 26, 2025
#28: Sovereignty in the Age of LLMs #AI #Sovereignty #Tech
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Jul 24, 2025
#27: Long Google #Tech #Markets #Essays
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Jul 12, 2025
#26: Bitcoin Without a Fight #Bitcoin #Economics #Technology
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Mar 9, 2025
#25: Nobody's Thinking Enough About AI #AI #Technology #Essays
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Feb 9, 2025
#24: Insurance for AI: Easier Said than Done #AI #Insurance #Technology
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Nov 4, 2024
#23: How to Write a Good Pitch Deck #Business #Startups #Entrepreneurship
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Oct 27, 2024
#22: A Bubble is Rarely A Bubble #Economics #Markets #Finance
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Oct 5, 2024
#21: Everything we know about LLMs doing Arithmetic #AI #LLM #Tech
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Sep 1, 2024
#20: No More EU Fines for Big Tech #Tech #Regulation #Business
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Jul 23, 2024
#19: Waymo the Leapfrog #Technology #Markets #Innovation
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Jun 22, 2024
#18: The End of Schematic Businesses? #Business #Technology #Markets
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Jun 4, 2024
#17: Seriously, what is Intelligence? #Intelligence #AI #Philosophy
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May 5, 2024
#16: Notes on Arithmetic in GPT-4 #AI #LLM #Tech
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Feb 20, 2024
#15: Maybe You Should Invest in Translation #Business #Language #Investing
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Jan 19, 2024
#14: Why Europe Fails to Create Wealth #Economics #Europe #Policy
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Dec 11, 2023