I write about AI and Geopolitics
Why Seeing Is No Longer Believing — and Why Skepticism Is Not Enough The Evolution of Trust For most of human history, trust was local, personal, and slow. You trusted the person whose face you knew, the merchant your family had dealt with for years, the elder whose judgment had been tested in public, or … Read more
In Part 1, we watched the market stop behaving like a leisure market. In Part 2, we read the steel — 40mm ice belts, heated sea chests, 6,000-mile ranges, and the Polar Ship Certificate, the only piece of paper that lets a 60-meter private vessel sit in second-year ice without breaching its insurance. In Part … Read more
In Part 1, we watched the market stop behaving like a leisure market. In Part 2, we read the steel — 40mm ice belts, heated sea chests, 6,000-mile ranges, and the Polar Ship Certificate that is the only piece of paper letting a 60-meter private vessel sit in second-year ice without breaching its insurance. We … Read more
Collective Character, Political Consequence, and the Burden of Responsibility I’ve had something on my mind lately. Pull up a chair. “Every nation gets the government it deserves.” Joseph de Maistre wrote these words in 1811, not as a cynical dismissal but as a profound observation about human agency. Far from excusing tyranny or corruption, the … Read more
In Part 1, we mapped a market that had quietly stopped behaving like a leisure market. The volume curve flattened. The size curve climbed. Fraser’s order book filled with custom 60–80-meter projects, average buyer ages dropped a decade, and Dutch yards became the single most important node in the global supply chain. We ended with … Read more