Albert Wenger
@albertwenger.bsky.social
VC at usv.com, blog at continuations.com, book at worldaftercapital.org
In 1993, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard wrote, “Every product we make pollutes.”
Then came the iconic “Don’t Buy This Jacket” thanksgiving ad, which (unsurprisingly) ended up driving more sales.
I asked David Gelles (author of Dirtbag Billionaire) about this Patagonia Paradox:
Then came the iconic “Don’t Buy This Jacket” thanksgiving ad, which (unsurprisingly) ended up driving more sales.
I asked David Gelles (author of Dirtbag Billionaire) about this Patagonia Paradox:
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In 1993, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard wrote, “Every product we make pollutes.”
Then came the iconic “Don’t Buy This Jacket” thanksgiving ad, which (unsurprisingly) ended up driving more sales.
I asked David Gelles (author of Dirtbag Billionaire) about this Patagonia Paradox:
Then came the iconic “Don’t Buy This Jacket” thanksgiving ad, which (unsurprisingly) ended up driving more sales.
I asked David Gelles (author of Dirtbag Billionaire) about this Patagonia Paradox:
I recently spoke to Dirtbag Billionaire author David Gelles about the story of Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard:
December 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I recently spoke to Dirtbag Billionaire author David Gelles about the story of Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard:
New blog post: Now is the Time to Take a Stand Against Trump continuations.com/now-is-the-t...
Now is the Time to Take a Stand Against Trump
I wrote previously about the threat of a Trump dictatorship. That was in 2020 which seems like a long time ago. After I wrote that post we got close to disaster when Trump attempted in various ways to...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New blog post: Now is the Time to Take a Stand Against Trump continuations.com/now-is-the-t...
Take back control: own all your model conversations, launch them from a single console!
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Open source project: github.com/FirstData... #DataSovereignty #OpenSource #AI
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One interface. All major LLMs. You stay in control of your data.
Open source project: github.com/FirstData... #DataSovereignty #OpenSource #AI
identity.firstdataun...
1/6
October 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Take back control: own all your model conversations, launch them from a single console!
Thiel's antichrist bit is top grade attention bait
October 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Thiel's antichrist bit is top grade attention bait
The present state of so much ...
August 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The present state of so much ...
Updated version of Pascal's wager: treat emergent artificial intelligences as humans. Limited downside and potentially infinite upside if it gets future super intelligences to care about human thriving.
August 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Updated version of Pascal's wager: treat emergent artificial intelligences as humans. Limited downside and potentially infinite upside if it gets future super intelligences to care about human thriving.
Blog post for your weekend reading pleasure: Machina deus continuations.com/machina-deus
Machina Deus
“God is dead” Nietzsche famously proclaimed. Humanity’s desire to be ruled by god, by contrast appears very much alive. Our latest hope for salvation rests with Artificial Intelligence. Climate crisis...
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August 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Blog post for your weekend reading pleasure: Machina deus continuations.com/machina-deus
Blog post: Abundant Artificial Attention? continuations.com/abundant-art...
Abundant Artificial Attention?
My book is called The World After Capital because capital is no longer our binding constraint. We have sufficient physical capital to provide for our needs. Instead, the defining scarcity of our time ...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Blog post: Abundant Artificial Attention? continuations.com/abundant-art...
Excited to be vising Beijing September 12-14 together with @gigidanziger.bsky.social to talk about my book The World After Capital, which has been published in China by Cheers Books
August 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Excited to be vising Beijing September 12-14 together with @gigidanziger.bsky.social to talk about my book The World After Capital, which has been published in China by Cheers Books
New post in my Philosophy Monday series: Philosophy and Physics (Reality) continuations.com/philosophy-m...
Philosophy Mondays: Philosophy and Physics (Reality)
As I have previously argued we can and should work towards a universal moral core. This project is essential so that our technological progress can be guided by moral progress, instead of running far ...
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August 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
New post in my Philosophy Monday series: Philosophy and Physics (Reality) continuations.com/philosophy-m...
Universal Basic Robots
July 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Universal Basic Robots
Blog post: $ / MWh -- the metric for the AI age continuations.com/the-ai-metri...
The AI Metric: $ / MWh
For a long time revenue per employee was a good approximation for the profitability of a company. For instance, in the US for a SaaS company to be profitable generally meant it had revenues of at leas...
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July 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Blog post: $ / MWh -- the metric for the AI age continuations.com/the-ai-metri...
Philosophy Mondays: Universalism and Moral Progress continuations.com/philosophy-m...
Philosophy Mondays: Universalism and Moral Progress
After an excursion into qualia we are now back to our regular scheduled programming here on Philosophy Mondays. As a brief refresher, let’s retrace our steps. My goal behind Philosophy Mondays is to h...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Philosophy Mondays: Universalism and Moral Progress continuations.com/philosophy-m...
New post in my Star Trek Vision series: Fully automated production continuations.com/star-trek-vi...
Star Trek Vision: Fully Automated Production
This is my second post filling in the details of a Star Trek vision. In Star Trek replicators make everything from parts for spaceships to food for human consumption. One would assume that a replicato...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
New post in my Star Trek Vision series: Fully automated production continuations.com/star-trek-vi...
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
- E.O. Wilson
- E.O. Wilson
July 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
- E.O. Wilson
- E.O. Wilson
Happy 4th of July: In Defense of Democracy (Blog Post) continuations.com/in-defense-o...
In Defense of Democracy
In 1787 when asked by Elizabeth Willing Powel "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Benjamin Franklin famously replied “A republic, if you can keep it.” That was now nearly 250 y...
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July 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Happy 4th of July: In Defense of Democracy (Blog Post) continuations.com/in-defense-o...
Just finished Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men (1930). While somewhat laborious in style it is a sweeping and moving hypothetical history of humanity over billions of years.
June 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Just finished Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men (1930). While somewhat laborious in style it is a sweeping and moving hypothetical history of humanity over billions of years.
Blog post: Immigration and Citizenship continuations.com/immigration-...
Immigration and Citizenship
I am an immigrant and I have written about immigration repeatedly before. Today I want to lay out my current views, including how these interact with citizenship requirements. My thinking is likely to...
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June 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Blog post: Immigration and Citizenship continuations.com/immigration-...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. - Charles Dickens about o3-pro and LA
June 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. - Charles Dickens about o3-pro and LA
Philosophy Mondays: Qualia (Cont'd) continuations.com/philosophy-m...
Philosophy Mondays: Qualia (Cont'd)
So just after I wrote about qualia in last week's Philosophy Monday, Sabine Hossenfelder comes out with a video claiming the exact opposite citing a recent study. In the video she says the following a...
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June 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Philosophy Mondays: Qualia and Scientific Incompleteness continuations.com/philosophy-m...
Philosophy Mondays: Qualia and Scientific Incompleteness
Today's Philosophy Mondays will be an interlude from our exploration of knowledge and values. I just finished reading Erik Hoel's wonderful book "The World Behind the World," which I highly recommend ...
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June 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Philosophy Mondays: Qualia and Scientific Incompleteness continuations.com/philosophy-m...
Blog post: Energy Too Cheap to Meter (Star Trek Vision) continuations.com/star-trek-vi...
Star Trek Vision: Energy Too Cheap To Meter
A few weeks ago I wrote a post outlining a Star Trek Vision for the US. More broadly speaking, I believe that an agenda like this should be the vision for the world. One of the many inspiring aspects ...
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May 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Blog post: Energy Too Cheap to Meter (Star Trek Vision) continuations.com/star-trek-vi...
Review of @rutgerbregman.com's new book Moral Ambition continuations.com/moral-ambiti...
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman (Book Review)
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian who has written on of the best books about universal basic income with Utopia for Realists (which I highly recommend reading). He followed this up with Humankind, a...
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May 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Review of @rutgerbregman.com's new book Moral Ambition continuations.com/moral-ambiti...
Resurfacing this from Oct 2023 - since then nations have failed to push for a credible post-Hamas Palestinian state & the US has enabled Israel to use that as an excuse for escalating the death toll & allowing expansionist voices in government. Truly awful on all counts. continuations.com/israelgaza
Israel/Gaza
I have not personally commented in public on the Israel/Gaza conflict until now (USV signed on to a statement). The suffering has been heartbreaking and the conflict is far from over. Beyond the carna...
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May 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Resurfacing this from Oct 2023 - since then nations have failed to push for a credible post-Hamas Palestinian state & the US has enabled Israel to use that as an excuse for escalating the death toll & allowing expansionist voices in government. Truly awful on all counts. continuations.com/israelgaza