One of the most common comments I receive whenever I post about solar is: “You haven’t factored in the opportunity cost.” And it’s a fair point. If you spend £20,000 on a solar and battery system,…

A Cameroonian village, a London gallery, and an economist walk into the same argument: that value is something we make together at every scale — or it isn't value at all. Observatory on fractal…

Updated May 2026 with refined visuals, clearer examples, and expanded analysis. The energy transition is easier than it looks Caption: Electrification reduces total energy demand by cutting systemic…

Here is a question worth sitting with: which is actually harder to achieve, a top 1% income or a top 1% net worth? Most people assume income. The number sounds impossibly high, the competition sounds…

On March 28, the Japanese games-business site Gamebiz published a one-week recap of the App Store sales ranking. The headline was a number. Pro Yakyuu Spirits A, a baseball mobile gacha that you…

I've run a digital agency from Manila for 23 years. I've billed clients in San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Canada — often at rates that would make a US shop laugh, and sometimes at rates that make…

People like to defend their favourite health and wellness practices by saying that “every little bit helps.” This is often intended to disarm and evade any skepticism by conceding the obvious: “Sure,…

Space activity started as a government effort. It was driven by competition, mainly between the USSR and the USA.Key early milestones:1957 – first satellite, first signal from space1957…

Farmer here. We would not need market interventions if we simply had high tariffs on food. Farmers produce a commodity product that has to compete on price with food grown in countries with zero…

For decades, the German tax advisory market was not simply fragmented. It was deliberately engineered to remain so. More than 100,000 licensed tax advisors operating across roughly 55,000 firms…

The FAST-era distribution stack has quietly inverted the unit economics of minor league broadcasting — most of the teams we already cut were already in the black, and nobody had the measurement layer…

Founders who try to skip learning sales by hiring a "silver bullet" salesperson almost always fail. Here's what to do instead.

Open weights models keep frontier labs honest on price. If they disappear, we end up with a handful of oligopolists extracting consumer surplus.

Why modern inequality is also about the ability to protect one’s time, attention, and environment.

Forms ask people to declare preferences. Receipts record what they did. The gap between the two is where revealed preference lives, and it's wider than most product teams admit.

Zeta Global just posted their latest email and SMS benchmark report. Curious about open, click and unsub percentages across a whole bunch of industry sectors? Zeta's got that. Retail, Financial…

It is not only inference. It is the frontier race. There is a popular argument in AI right now: Token prices are low because frontier labs are subsidizing them. When the subsidy ends, many AI…

In 2025, the U.S. imported 2.7 billion pounds of fresh avocados. Mexico supplied 83%. Peru, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic split the rest.

Here, we consider the problem of allocating limited inventory across demand sites, given the availability of a lower-quality substitute that can be used when inventory runs out. We find that it can…

There was once a potato who could not go without eating chips. ‘Oh, what does that make me, Mother? A monster’? He trembled at the truth of it. ‘Who knows’, said she as she heated the oil in the pan…

From “Changes in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Finances, Operations, and Quality of Care After Using Management Consultants,” published in JAMA: Nonprofit hospitals in the US (n = 2343)…

Financial advice consolidation in the UK has put private equity in control of hundreds of firms. Here's what vertical integration and hidden conflicts mean for your money.

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer, is a popular and delightful book that promotes the idea of a reciprocal gift economy. I included the Gift…

When systems slow people down, culture reorganises around the illusion of progress.

Disclaimer: This is not financial, tax, or investment advice. It is a description of how I structure my own balance sheet, with risks I understand and accept for my situation. Borrowing against BTC,…

Runner Dock operating report Snapshot as of 2026-05-05 09:04 BST / 08:04 UTC. Recommendation: CEO should approve the GCP-controlled GitHub Actions design-partner outbound path and pricing-test…

Project Pathfinder: Last week, the Herald published its list of the 50 most powerful people in Scottish arts and culture. It was an impressive collection of talent – but it was also a perfect…

In einem Interview mit DIE ZEIT spricht Dr. Parag Khanna darüber, wie die Blockade der Straße von Hormus die systemische Verwundbarkeit globaler Lieferketten offengelegt hat. Er argumentiert, dass…

On brand harvesting, the lululemon proxy fight, and the rebuild the AI age requires. Chip Wilson’s April 29 letter to lululemon shareholders is the most coherent statement of his case to date.…

Last Updated: May 4, 2026 For the past few years, every Twitter/Reddit thread about project management tools goes… The post The data on Jira vs Linear: Who’s winning new customers? appeared…

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In the US, railways are mostly seen as a means to carry freight, with the passenger rail system in a rather desolate state. Europeans, however, have long prided themselves on high-speed long-distance…

A self-contained synthetic benchmark of a small mask-conditional CNN against calendar-projected linear interpolation and a per-slice SVI fit. A volatility surface marker is rarely a clean rectangle…

EarthBucks 2.0: Making EBX Real

Both Netflix and Spotify deserve close monitoring. From Wall Street’s perspective, something is wrong with the companies. On a combined basis, Netflix’s and Spotify’s market caps have declined by 35%…

Hemay’s Phase 2 mufemilast data suggest that oral PDE4 inhibition can drive biologic-range remission rates in moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis. This class-level evidence may partially de-risk…

This is a paper on Marx's notion of "capitalism" and Frank Knight's notion of "civilization" and why both leave much to be desired.

Mindjacking doesn’t always come from outside. Sometimes you watch it happen in real time and still can’t stop it.

Each day some trillion dollars change hands in any sort of financial transaction. Hidden in this money ocean there are also fraudulent actors, which attempt to sanitize illicit money by making its…

             The First World War tested the fiscal systems of all belligerent countries, usually in unprecedented ways. Governments had to…

There is an old Japanese legend that carries more weight than any Ivy League finance degree. It says that if you find yourself on the wrong train, you should get off at the nearest station. It sounds…

There is a tool that serious traders have been waiting for and it is finally here. TRIGGR is a physical trading controller designed for one purpose — to make sure you never miss a trade because your…

Brayden Holt-Weissmann woke up at six in the morning because that is what founders do, and Brayden was still, technically, a founder, in the same way that a man standing in the ruins of a bakery is…

When the board itself becomes the obstacle to clear thinking, no governance code can save the company. On groupthink, pluralistic ignorance, and the difference between directors who serve the company…

Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes My guest today is Ross Greene. He is a clinical child psychologist. Greene’s research has been extensively published in academic journals and he and…

Every organization that relies on digital data faces a Kodak -like transformational choice: how to invest in leveraging LLMs versus continuation of legacy processes. Here "organization" includes…

Bonjour à tous, Un rapport publié en mars 2026 par Keyrock, Safe et DLResearch analyse la gestion de trésorerie de 25 grands protocoles crypto. Le constat est saisissant : 93 % de leurs actifs sont…

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We sell lots in the UK (services and goods), and handle UK VAT, obviously. Some of you may be surprised that A&A sell all over the world as well - development circuit boards. I have mentioned it, I…