Author
Jim Caldwell

Editor-in-Chief
Jim Caldwell is the editor-in-chief of Savant. For more than two decades he has moved between two worlds: editing writers at publications that cover business, economics and ideas, and working on strategy inside companies, where he saw how decisions are really made and how rarely the published version matched them. That gap shaped the magazine he wanted to edit, one that takes builders, money, technology and judgment seriously, and asks every writer to show their reasoning. He reads every piece Savant publishes and writes the essays that open each of its sections.
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Why Savant Exists
A first letter from the editor: what Savant is for, why it covers four subjects and not forty, and what kind of…