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laurence pevsner
@lpevs.bsky.social
📚 moynihan public scholar at ccny

🎲 riskgaming at lux capital

✊🏽abundance, nuance, democracy

✍️ former columnist at mcsweeney’s and lefty speechwriter at the UN, now working on a book about public apologies and a novel about buried treasure
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The relevant axis of political conflict is change versus stasis
Riskgaming · Episode
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June 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Think Bush going after Kerry's military service. Or the Doolittle raid in WWII.

From Karl Rove to Carl von Clausewitz, tacticians have always recommended and deployed attacking your opponent's strength.

It proves that even their best isn't good enough.
April 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
but without yeast!
April 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I learned so much from talking to these two...about information overload, the energy transition, and why we've been "wasting trillions" on the wrong industries out of pure envy.

Read: riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-hyper...

Or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
The hyper-competition of U.S.-China trade relations
Neil Thomas and Kate Logan on information overload, industrial strategy, and trade
riskgaming.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM