I drove from Mississippi to Wyoming for a conference. I went through Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado on the way there. I went through Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and then the east side of Arkansas on the way back. Several things occurred to me.
"Geology, geopolitics, petroglyphs, Machu Picchu, spirituality, economics, risk analysis... Need to focus your msg, stop being so random and pick a topic."
Nope - the frontier is all around us, above & below, w/in & w/out, all connected.
Explore it.
Some petroglyphs observed in the Vernal, UT, area during a recent visit. They suggest spiritual or philosophical truths from a world so far removed from ours, that interpreting them via modern science seems unlikely. Perhaps a more intuitive, even psychic, approach is needed.
The importance of critical minerals to U.S. economic and national security is real, and it certainly deserves attention. But solutions that involve central planning should be evaluated carefully. https://t.co/oi6nTk18Jy
The U.S. is highly dependent on imports for its critical minerals. In this episode, we examine why these minerals are critical, what could disrupt supply, and how the U.S. can strengthen its position.
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The Ground Beef Mastery Ladder.
Tier 1: Buys 5% lean. Drains the fat. Pats it with kitchen roll. Adds a splash of olive oil to "make it healthier."
Tier 2: Buys 10%. Still drains it. Briefly considers keeping the fat but loses nerve at the last moment.
Tier 3: Buys 15%. Stops draining. Stirs the fat back in. Tastes the food again for the first time in years.
Tier 4: Buys 20%. Notices the bag is cheaper than the lean stuff. Notices it tastes better. Notices a pattern.
Tier 5: Cooks the mince in butter on top of its own fat. The pan is now a small pond. The pond is the point.
Tier 6: Stops adding herbs, spices, sauces, garlic, onion, and tomato paste. Discovers it was the meat they liked all along.
Tier 7: Forgets the salt one evening. Eats it anyway. Realises halfway through that it didn't need the salt either. Sits with that for a while.
Tier 8: Eats 500g in one sitting. Is full. Is not hungry until tomorrow lunchtime. Quietly suspicious of the last twenty years of breakfast advice.
Tier 9: Buys mince for breakfast. Cooks it in tallow. Eats it with three eggs. Goes about their day.
Tier 10: Asks the butcher for 70/30. The butcher nods like a man recognising one of his own.
The journey is not from lean to fatty. The journey is from being afraid of food to being fed by it.
If my electrician charges $175 per hour, somebody is going to have to explain to me why you would spend four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to college.
Now we know what the stone spirals, ubiquitous throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, signify.
Malta - Calypso's Cave (traditionally associated with Odysseus’ captivity by Calypso as her love slave for seven years): rock formation overlooking Ramla Bay.
Interesting read. “These moves aren't the death throes of a decaying empire obsessed with endless global policing, but rather about making the Western Hemisphere the most stable, abundant zone on Earth by creating time and space for the interior to decentralize and flourish.”
Coming April 2026 - A New Knowledge
ECDO Theory proposes a physical mechanism linking flood myths, ancient monuments, geophysical anomalies, and climate change — suggesting these are not isolated phenomena, but expressions of a single underlying process within the Earth system. This work outlines and substantiates a novel theory that carries profound implications for the future of humanity.
I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.
Truly eye opening macro geopolitical overview of current events. Ties together domestic and international dynamics - war, finance, culture - to explain a bigger, older conflict underway. Quite a different story than the mainstream (and most alt news) narratives.
Nothing wrong with the ostrich approach when applied correctly. Bury your head in the sand of your own life. You can only control your thoughts, feelings, and actions. All else is beyond your control and causes unnecessary stress. Don’t fret over what you can’t change.
People obsess too much over things that are completely outside their control, and don't obsess enough over things that are completely within their control.