Jordan McGillis
@jordanmcgillis
economics @cityjournal energy and technology @manhattaninst geopolitics @globaltaiwan term member @CFR_org views mine
AI tools can detect truck driver fatigue and prevent deadly crashes. But the Teamsters are blocking their rollout. My latest @WSJ:
I often tell people, no, having kids is not expensive, but having both kids and upper-middle-class proclivities will drain every penny.
Two biggest personal finance life hacks: 1. Not caring about status 2. Not caring about cars (closely related to #1)
The AI Action Plan has a bunch of ideas for streamlining upgrades to the electric grid. It's going to be ironic (but good) if Trump implements the reforms necessary to electrify the economy and solve climate change while officially not caring about climate change.
"Everyone keeps talking about reindustrializing the country, but nobody's talking about the reality that nobody wants to work off some random freeway exit in the middle of Texas." @jansramek (Founder & CEO @CAForever) on how he’s thinking about building a new kind of…
Lots of tradeoffs, but seems like the transformation of marriage to a “capstone” experience rather than a foundational one leads to more stable matches
The new data is in: Divorce probabilities for couples who married more recently start out much lower. Estimates from Yifeng Wan @UVA: ifstudies.org/blog/no-longer…
europeans at 3pm after putting in a hard days work at their $15,000 a year salaried job (they pay $100 in rent and beer costs 50 cents)
Working on a piece about how our defense-tech feedback loops are too slow and the Army just...tweeted it out.
Welcome to São Pangeles
Introducing Patrol. Homeowners in LA can now book off-duty police officers to help protect their homes. Now available in Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, and Malibu — more areas coming soon.
In fact, young men with a college degree now have the same unemployment rate as young men who didn’t go to college, completely erasing the graduate employment premium. Whereas a healthy premium remains for young women.
Every business has a purpose—and it's the proprietor's right to define it. Why is this a story?nytimes.com/2025/07/14/din…
The Manhattan Institute works to improve the quality of life in America's great cities by fostering competition, entrepreneurship, and fiscal responsibility.
average brooklyn millennial: i'm nothing like those losers back home those losers back home:
maga: add back real sugar ultramaga: add back real cocaine
My 3,000-word treatment of Lip-Bu Tan, and by extension, the future of Intel and American chip manufacturing. (🔗in next post) He is probably the most successful tech CEO and VC no one has heard of. And he is the “tiger dad” Intel needs. One of my favorite paragraphs to write…
Writing a 3,000-plus words profile of Lip-Bu Tan Such a joy learning about his life and story Can't wait to share it with you all!
just raw dogged an entire paternity leave no snoo, no baby brezza, no white noise machine six weeks, nothing but father, son, and swaddle
Time. To. Build.
BREAKING: Proposed S.F. tower would be 15 stories taller than Salesforce and forever change the city skyline. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/new…
Will Trader Zoh's be immune?
Thanks to pandemic lockdowns, rising social disorder following the BLM riots, reduced police enforcement, and misguided state bail reforms, New York City has lost 50,000 retail jobs since 2020, writes @cjstevem.