Creator of The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. Tech expert & thought leader on AI, new technologies & the future as a frequent keynote speaker, influential author & writer. Founder of Reinvent Futures for foresight advising. For more see peterleyden.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3m7gxs5mpsk2bThis comprehensive interview of me by Big Think just came out and gives all the key pieces of my upcoming book with HarperCollins. Check it out. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Dec 2025 02:20 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7gxs5mpsk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3ltfgfkb2lc2bThis documentary-style video interview of me has racked up 615,000 views, 23,000 likes, and 2600 comments in Youtube in just the last week. It lays out in 15 minutes my big idea that America is entering its fourth great reinvention - which might be why it went viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoCpFfOH0407 Jul 2025 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltfgfkb2lc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3lsw76ms7ks26Happy Fourth of July. Watch this new documentary-style video that does a great job laying out my big idea that America is now going through a reinvention that has happened just three times before. This is not about Trump today but the next 25 years. @freethink.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoCpFfOH0401 Jul 2025 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsw76ms7ks26https://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3lrstvqftls26This new essay of mine draws off some big lessons I have learned in my 30 years in the tech world of San Francisco and applies them to other industries and fields in terms of what we should now do around the arrival of AI. The big example is K-12 education. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-new-mantra-if-you-could-start17 Jun 2025 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrstvqftls26https://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3lrbc66wlck27I recently helped launch a new event series in San Francisco, which I host & curate, based on the framework & worldview of my Substack series and upcoming book called The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. I'm doing in it partnership with @freethink.com. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/three-pioneering-founders-see-the10 Jun 2025 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrbc66wlck27https://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3loiy62dc2c25I’m particularly proud of my new essay that I have not seen anyone else layout out. The big idea is that AI is actually under-hyped & will actually bring civilizational-scale changes that humans last went through more than 250 years ago in The Enlightenment. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/ai-may-bring-civilizational-scale06 May 2025 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3loiy62dc2c25https://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3lnxtp6m3z22zThere are two worlds that talk about “abundance” and I have a foot in both, but they don’t seem to be talking to each other — and should. One is in left-of-center politics and the other world is in tech. We need to combine the insights from both - so I did. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-missing-tech-case-for-how-we29 Apr 2025 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxtp6m3z22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3lng6fxytpc2vI wrote an essay a couple weeks ago that went viral on how America could be heading into a reinvention like only a few times before. My new piece this week lays out the case about why this happens every 80 years and points out all the evidence around us now. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/why-america-reinvents-itself-every22 Apr 2025 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3lng6fxytpc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3lmukl3bb3k2iThis is another big idea that I have not seen anyone really talking about but that has huge consequences if true. This one reframe can change how you interpret all the news coming out of Washington DC. Check out my latest Substack essay to understand why. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-positive-reframe-of-what-trump15 Apr 2025 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmukl3bb3k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3lmcxtwfkos23I always learn something about tech & the future from @kevinkelly.bsky.social that I have never thought about before. I bet you will too in reading the highlights I draw out from my recent interview of the founding executive editor of WIRED & all-around tech guru. https://open.substack.com/pub/peterleyden/p/kevin-kelly-points-a-new-way-forward?r=lq5m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web08 Apr 2025 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmcxtwfkos23https://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3llrgwaqzjk2vThis takes you to one of the syndicated versions of my Substack story that went out today from my new series The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. The media company @freethink.com is taking all my essays from within the Substack world & putting them out in the web & into their mailing lists. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2025 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3llrgwaqzjk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3llrceov4fc2mThis is a big idea that I have not seen anywhere else that goes a long way to explaining what is really happening in America and the world right now. I’m biased, since I wrote it, but if you want a positive reframe about what's going on, take a read. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/america-is-going-through-its-every01 Apr 2025 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3llrceov4fc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3ll7zyimhjk22This is the syndicated version of my Substack essay this week that goes out through the media ecosystem of @freethink.com on the web and social media that uses different visuals - and pull quotes like another message I'm forwarding after this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Mar 2025 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7zyimhjk22https://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3ll7zuoyqek22I've launched my new Substack series that is heading towards my third book & my essay this week does something that I wish many other Substack writers or columnists would do: make the case why I should read you given all the other options out there. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-dozen-reasons-to-read-peter-leyden25 Mar 2025 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7zuoyqek22https://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3lkosrfusv22qToday is launch day of my new Substack series The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. This linked story lays out the ambitious project that I will take on over the course of the coming year. The series is free & will fill out a new grand narrative for 25 years. https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/what-is-the-great-progression-202518 Mar 2025 23:22 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkosrfusv22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteleyden.bsky.social/post/3laackf5w542cSharon and I voted today for Kamala Harris at a voting booth that's not more than a mile from the school where she was educated in Berkeley. We walked from our house that is about a mile from the house where she grew up. We could not be happier that our next president will be a Berkeley girl.05 Nov 2024 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:62pqldo7reg3b2br5uz7w276/app.bsky.feed.post/3laackf5w542c