Erik Olsen

What should California do with its offshore oil rigs? The question is more urgent than ever. californiacurated.substack.com/p/transforming…

@Pauledroberts 🤣

Holy shit it shrunk!

Wow, big one. Legendary evolutionary psychologist. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/sci… via @NYTimes

I'll bet if you went back 15000 years ago and offered people an iPhone or plastic bags, they'd take the bags.

Cycads are ancient, fascinating plants as old as dinosaurs. They existed long before flowering plants, and two of the largest collections are here in Southern California: open.substack.com/pub/california… @DescansoGardens

From John McPhee’s Assembling California: In the south, where State Route 14 climbs out of Palmdale on its way to Los Angeles, it cuts across the fault zone through two high roadcuts in which Pliocene sediments look like rolled-up magazines... open.substack.com/pub/california…

@etrade You guys need to post here to let us know what's going on.

Inside the Huntington’s Hidden Bonsai Garden | Art, Science, and the Tre... youtu.be/wCx8qvtOuSM?si… via @YouTube

Try to use the new ChatGPT to help transfer over a website from one WordPress site to another. Total disaster. Not only did it not do it, it f*cked things up. @OpenAI

There's an old west town in Santa Clarita just outside of Los Angeles. instagram.com/reel/DVZtffZIE…

I did a deep dive (pun intended) on one of California's amazing ocean research institutions: the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, also known as MBARI: californiacurated.substack.com/p/mbari-and-th…

Every day around the world, trillions of animals rise and fall through the water column—and California’s highly productive waters make it one of the best places on Earth to study this vast, invisible migration. californiacurated.substack.com/p/californias-…

When did @TheAtlantic become such downer clickbait?

California's Bizarre, Alien Lake #california youtu.be/NA7YBM-12bo?si… via @YouTube

My latest piece explores the idea behind California Curated and celebrates the state’s staggering richness, even as critics continue to dismiss and misunderstand what makes California so extraordinary. californiacurated.substack.com/p/curiosity-is…

@milesdeutscher Absurd.

This is the most important story in AI right now. But no one is connecting the dots. Sam Altman just got the final piece he needed to automate every company on the planet. And as a result, it could displace ~30% of jobs before 2030.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. A selfie, on the other hand, is worth seventeen words newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…