After Reading Abundance By Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: 9 Lessons I Learned About Progress, Regulation, and Collective Ambition A Call to Rebuild Our Nation (Personal Reflect

In the 1950s, Americans believed in building. They built highways, suburbs, satellites. It wasn't just infrastructure—they built a sense of destiny, of velocity, of rising above the limits imposed by the past.

But sometime between the first moon landing and the last neighborhood protest against a new apartment complex, that faith dissolved. We traded ambition for caution. That is, in essence, the story behind Abundance.

When Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson sat down to write this book, they wer...