76 billion animals, four countries, one system 
Separating Fire, Earth, and Fluff: A Fifty-Year Reality Check 
The Most Interesting Thing About the OpenAI Incident Wasn’t the AI 
Why I Write Everywhere: 
The Independence Paradox… 
76 billion animals, four countries, one system
Start with the number, because it’s worth sitting with before anything else: in 2020, roughly...
Separating Fire, Earth, and Fluff: A Fifty-Year Reality Check
I live in a cave. That’s not a metaphor I reach for to sound rugged…...
The Most Interesting Thing About the OpenAI Incident Wasn’t the AI
The older I get, the more suspicious I become of certainty. Not confidence… certainty. They’re...
Why I Write Everywhere:
On Niches, Honesty, and Not Giving a Damn Whether You Read This People ask me...
The Independence Paradox…
Why Living Off-Grid Made Me Appreciate Society More One of the unexpected discoveries about living...
The Weather Isn’t the Problem. The Weather Is Just Honest.
Environmental collapse is usually sold to us as a planetary drama: hotter summers, fiercer floods,...
The Second Earth… And the Machines That Will Grow Up There
For years, we have been told that artificial intelligence would change the world. Most of...
Freedom of Speech… Until Somebody Says Something We Don’t Like
Freedom of speech is perhaps the only subject where almost everyone claims to support it…...
The Illusion of the Local Council:
How Outsourced Policy Quietly Erased Local Democracy There was a time when local governance, for...
The Atomization Economy
I live in a cave. Actual rock, actual dust, actual silence you could cut into...