Caravan Magazine

A journal of politics and culture

Silicon Valley

Elon Musk’s ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ Ethos Hits a Wall in Washington

House Republicans are in disarray. A rushed government funding package has sparked intraparty conflict, frustration with Speaker Mike Johnson is boiling over, and Democrats are claiming victory. Even President-elect Donald Trump is shifting blame toward Joe Biden for the chaos….

Why Silicon Valley’s Optimization Mindset Could Lead Us to Fail

In 2013, Rob Rhinehart, a Silicon Valley software engineer, approached food as a problem to be solved. To him, buying, preparing, and cleaning up after meals seemed inefficient and time-consuming. The result of this thought process was Soylent—an engineered meal…