The Cult of Innovation and the Death of Usefulness
Reality Is a User Interface
What’s on the Box Is a Lie
Becoming …
The Coward’s Cloister
The Applause Is a Lie
The Cult of the Manager
The Gospel of Fear
The Lost Art of Doing Nothing
The Age of Unburned Fingers
Fortress of One
The Green Ponzi Meets the Wall
China has a problem. A very big one. It has built gargantuan production capacities for everything the green cult preaches…
When Rivers Freeze, Narratives Crack
My father was born in 1935. He told me stories about the Danube freezing over pretty much every year during…
It’s Not the Climate That’s Making You Poor
In a thoroughly screwed and technically correct sense, the headline is true: people make less money because of climate change….
Reality Never Had a Chance
One of the most persistent ideologies—now running strong for well over a century—is socialism, along with its close relatives communism…
Will We Believe Our Eyes, or the People Who Need Us Not To?
Measurements made by satellites. Sure. They’re handy. They’re impressive. They look fantastic in presentations and give journalists something clean and…
Virtue Has a Short Half-Life When People Start Freezing
Pretty shortly after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Germany decided to accelerate its exit from nuclear energy. To be precise,…
Collateral Damage: Venezuela Was the Message
Narcoterrorism, hurting Russia, denying China a foothold in the Caribbean, oil and gas, Cuba—those are the official, theatrical reasons. They…
Automation Is Not a Free Lunch
I am not an engineer, and I will say this upfront. I am also a big friend of automation. When…
Why Decay Is the Default Setting
Every institution humans create eventually petrifies. That is not a failure mode; it is the default setting. Given enough time,…
