The Cathedral of Lies
Conspiracy Theories and Other Comfort Blankets
The End of America, Again
The Self-Destruction of Idiocy
The Empire of Excess
The Ponzi Empire
The Luxury of Victimhood
The Industry That Was Supposed to Collapse
The Day I Stopped Believing in Politics
The Distortion Field of Fame
The Age of the Educated Idiot
Wars End. Industrial Damage Doesn’t.
How long? It is a deceptively simple question. How long before the cumulative damage inflicted on Russia’s hydrocarbon industry begins…
The Best Part Is No Part
“The best part is no part.” It is one of Elon Musk’s better-known engineering principles, and it sounds almost too…
Hydrogen Isn’t the Mystery. Economics Is.
Hydrogen production challenges? All right, let’s be frank. Producing hydrogen will cost you. A lot. Far more than an unsubsidised…
Europe’s Greatest Strength Was Never Uniformity
It is time for Europe to become something the rest of the world takes seriously again. Curiously, most people seem…
The Difference Between Having Resources and Having Usable Resources
People struggle with the concept of a stranded resource because they confuse existing with being economically available. Those are two…
From VisiCalc to AI: The Old Problem Never Went Away
Ah, models. Artificial Intelligence is not the first generation of models I’ve worked with. Far from it. I still remember…
The Fatal Flaw of Narrative Economies
That is the fundamental problem with ecosystems built on narratives rather than markets. The moment an economic system derives its…
