Mineral security is not a procurement problem you can buy your way out of. Permits, litigation, and decade-long lead times make supply slow by default. The real lever is engineering the dependency out. This directly feeds the mineral-dependency problem on my Problems page.
Top picks
The few books that actually moved my thinking, and what I took from each.
The most controversial thing I have read recently, and I think largely right. The first half, that the West lost the will to build hard things with the state, is sharp. But the real argument is the prescription: rebuild that engineering-plus-state partnership, aimed at hard technological and defense power, to put the US back on top. You can already see that playbook running in the real world. The mirror image for the East is clear too: you cannot borrow that ecosystem. You build your own and keep backups ready.
Current reads
What is open on my desk right now.
A curious read. One person’s take on a way of living and working.
I am reading this while thinking about output-driven versus craft-driven cultures. What an organization gains, and what it quietly loses, when it optimizes for results over the problem-solving itself. Netflix is the extreme case study.
I built this site to think in public and keep an honest record of what I am working on. Originals is the nudge for the harder half: actually moving from ideas to action.
Later on this page
This shelf is where I will add the blogs, newsletters, writers, and people I keep returning to when I want signal over noise.