Texas Understood First
Not the senator. Greg Abbott. Christianity plus builders in one jurisdiction. A cultural catalyst, not automatically a smaller state.
We Are Not the Horses
Jevons now. Seba later. Cheap software created more work, not less. The horse is the task, and it arrives first where the crib is emptiest.
The Cow Is the Next Horse
GLP-1 changes the plate. Precision fermentation can detach protein from the animal. Dutch nitrogen may ease because demand falls, not because a plan wins.
The Nine Streets
The Netherlands is not a car-making country. RDW moved first. The Nine Streets are not the final boss. They are the European demonstration.
Super Power Comes from the South
Super Power is surplus electrons, not a green mix. Texas feels it first. Spain and Greece can become serious partners. Northern Europe cannot copy the sun.
The Next Ten Years
The Club of Rome had it backwards. Too few children. Cost curves too steep. Institutions too slow. Scarcity dies in the technology. Freedom can still die in the institution.
The Vampire Builders
Andreessen called them AI vampires: builders who stop sleeping because agents never do. The real transition is next — from human-paced loops to automatic graphs that call the human only when judgment is required.
The Forgotten Metric
Governments destroy value as general allocators. Entrepreneurs multiply it. Keep the state small and short-lived for emergencies — and leave compounding room to the best resource allocators.
The Thread Through My Work
My essays look scattered — Europe, AI, abundance, consciousness, the Gita. They are one thread: freedom and resources enough for a human to develop consciousness without being owned by faction, fear, or control.
The Banality of Emergency
Fear mobilizes. Emergency becomes architecture. The adult position is harder: we do not know — so no one gets unlimited power. Humility, sunset clauses, and awe before the order we do not own.
