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Vannevar Bush: Humble Leadership in the Bureaucracy
A selective summary of "Pieces of the Action"
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Charles Yang
The Long Horizon of Post-Grad
Discovering Commitment and Conviction
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Charles Yang
July 2023
June 2023
Chartbook: Electric bikes as a climate change solution
A portfolio approach to transportation and building decarbonization
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Charles Yang
May 2023
Building Back Nuclear in America
Part 1: Looking to the Nuclear Navy
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Charles Yang
Imitating the Artifacts of Humanity
ChatGPT and what it means to be human
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Charles Yang
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April 2023
Why I quit working at an AI startup to join the Department of Energy
Identifying impact arbitrage in working on climate
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Charles Yang
March 2023
February 2023
Writing as Self-Alienation
A Highly Subjective, Probably Incorrect History
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Charles Yang
3
On Reading and Writing: A Personal Journey
Why I read I first started reading in my junior year of high school. Not as in “I didn’t know how to read before” — I went through the requisite litany…
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Charles Yang
2
January 2023
Notes on Japanese Political Economy and Industrial Policy
"MITI and the Japanese Miracle"
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Charles Yang
In Defense of MOOCs, Discipline in the Attention Economy, and ChatGPT
Last time I shared about my experiences doing deep dives in technical areas for my work at Actuate Innovation and Department of Energy ARPA-E. But my…
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Charles Yang
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