Is anyone else out there having trouble keeping up? A week ago I thought AI was the topic of the decade, either going to render humanity useless or lead to some sort of free-high-income ‘paradise’ where we don’t have to do anything at all. Kind of a big deal. And yet this past week I’ve hardly heard a word about it. It must be all over. AI must have slipped us into the matrix so quietly and efficiently we didn’t even notice. But probably not. Nothing like a good old war to bump AI off the [Read more]
Thinking things through
Buddhists say that life is suffering. Don’t we all just feel full of life these days? Everything feels crazy and painful, or infuriating, or all of the above. I can’t tell you how many people say they just tune out, especially the news. Tuning out and going for a walk in nature is a great way to deal with it all, but that isn’t always an option. So what to do then. Well, there are ways to get through it all intact… Growing up near a small rural town, where country people gathered from a [Read more]
Some things about AI are becoming clear – the demand for “real” stuff is going to skyrocket
Elon Musk seemingly can perform the impossible. He, in a sense, invented a whole new segment of the automobile industry, building and commercializing electric vehicles when major manufacturers said it couldn’t be done. He built a rocket company that runs laps around NASA, the long-predominant US governmental space agency. He also made the biggest leap in human history, when he went from environmental hero (for EV breakthroughs) to a Trump-team pariah within the blink of an eye, all while siring [Read more]
“True power is sitting back and observing things with logic…” – words of wisdom to navigate today’s dumpster fires
Everyone wants to talk about the big flamethrowers of the day. Will we build pipelines? What will happen with tariffs? Where can big tech plug in their data centers, preferably by noon tomorrow? It’s totally understandable that people are curious about these things; the impact of any could be very significant. There are endless forums in which to debate odds of success for any of these, or estimate timelines. I can’t even guess at them so am not going to try, and instead maybe distract y’all [Read more]
Why natural gas markets are so wild, and what to do about it
Around many computer terminals located in major energy hubs sit hunched some very wealthy people that got that way by betting on the weather. Nothing so mundane as slapping down a hundred bucks on whether it will rain next Tuesday or not; they do it by betting on natural gas markets, which have the capacity to, within days, whipsaw positions into massive fortunes. Or losses, because the reverse is also true, as legendary gas trading firm Amaranth Advisors showed so spectacularly 20 years ago [Read more]
2026 signal to noise ratio is redlining, here’s some help
Quite the year so far, hey? Waking up to scan the news is like slowly prying one eye open for a peek, expecting sheer mayhem, and breathing a sigh of relief if there is only a minor cataclysmic event. Less than two weeks and we’ve had Venezuela and now Iran seize the world’s attention for different but related reasons, and who knows where will be next. It is mind-blowing to think that the next powder keg could be Greenland, a place whose every defining trait screams the exact opposite of powder [Read more]
And we thought 2025 was chaotic…2026 looks set to blow that away
We’re a few days into the new year, and a striking phenomenon so far is that we’ve heard hardly a mention of either AI or silver, both of which dominated hive mind chatter in the last few weeks of 2025. Knocking those two off the top pedestals is a new (for the time being) champ from South America. Everything changed this past weekend when the US surgically removed Nicolas Maduro as leader of Venezuela. The hive mind went ape. New experts appeared by the truckload. It was sight to behold; [Read more]
As the geopolitical landscape shifts, oil and natural gas remain key to everything
Once upon a time, I imagined there was a layer of people at the top of the world order that were supremely wise, experienced, and of the finest judgement. I assumed that the world moved with purpose as this elite crowd rolled up their sleeves and exercised their skills in a cohesive manner, instituting policies and programs that were the best and most logical choice based on finances and resources available. I assumed the west worked that way, as did the commies (the cold war lives on in my head [Read more]
Weekly Word Wanderings: Very bad AI, very good AI (for natural gas), and the weirdest French court case you can imagine
Engaging Articles of the Week You know how last year you changed your passwords from 1-2-3-4-5-6 to 6-5-4-3-2-1 in order to update security protocols and thwart criminals; well, a lot of firms and governments have something that believe it or not is even more secure – message encryption. As Microsoft puts it, “Encrypting an email message means it's converted from readable plain text into scrambled cipher text. Only the intended recipient can decipher the message for reading. Any recipient [Read more]
Leverage, Sweet Leverage: A new Canadian coastal oil pipeline would vastly improve Canada’s trade talk position
There are so many questions about the Alberta-Canada energy MOU...anyone thinking they’ve figured it out is probably spending too much time with the bong. There’s a good chance that, at this stage, it’s not even meant to be figured out, just open to interpretation so that everyone can score a win and everyone can be mad about it and then hey at least we have some sort of energy homeostasis which good Lord is what any sane person wants. The MOU is like something that fell out of a spaceship, [Read more]
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