Streams of Consciousness

In the spring of 2026, the Iran War started.

I meant to post this about 6 months ago.

Small post, but what do you do when things aren’t fun?

Josh Barro once said “Trump has only taken the dignity from those who gave it willingly and Jeb Bush.”

India is no longer a poor country.

In my previous post on fusion power, I discussed how fusion power will not be possible on Earth without using tritium.

I don’t know if I’ve said this before, but I live near a railroad.

Grappling with assumptions and knowledge bias Say you are going to visit someone, but for thought-experiment reasons you know absolutely nothing about them, not even their name or gender or anything of the like.

I’m going to lay my cards on the table and say this: I think it’s extremely unlike that a nuclear fusion power plant will send any energy to civilian grids in my lifetime.

About a year ago I gave Kier Starmer some unsolicited advice about how he should improve the British economy.