Marla standing barefoot on a Caribbean beach, hand on hip, looking out past the rocks toward the horizon

MacroMarla

What are we underestimating?

Technology Economics AI Real estate Investing The decade ahead

Trying to understand the forces changing how we live, work, invest, and move — without pretending to predict every turn.

The short version

A lifetime of noticing change a little early. Serial entrepreneur. Real estate investor. Author. An early adopter of almost everything: a car phone screwed to the floorboard in 1982, a Macintosh in 1984, electric cars before they were obvious, and first in line for a humanoid robot.

Mostly retired now, and studying the big forces moving the economy, the way some people do crossword puzzles.

The best conversations happen at the intersections, and often with people half my age. AI and jobs. Robots and productivity. Housing and demographics. Energy and transportation. Technology and what things are actually worth.

None of us know where this is going.

Not the experts, not the founders, not even the machines themselves. The one thing that's certain? This is the most exciting time any of us will ever live through.

Questions on the table

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