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2 months ago | 
unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com | Tomas Pueyo
I don’t usually do guest posts, but today is an exception. Maxwell Tabarrok is an economics researcher at Dartmouth College and author of the substack Maximum Progress. He proposed this article about the end of Japan’s stagnation, and I found it super interesting, especially as I am just studying Japan and the economic miracles of this country, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. Japan’s economy is also important to understand, as it’s the canary in the coal mine of low fertility rates.
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2 months ago | 
piratewires.com | Tomas Pueyo
It’s Time for America to Step Up in Panamaan evaluation of the chinese threat to the panama canal and a way forward for america
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2 months ago | 
thevccorner.com | Rubén Domínguez Ibar |Ruben Dominguez Ibar |Tomas Pueyo |Janelle Teng |Gary Marcus
Another week, another wave of funding, insights, and opportunities shaping the venture ecosystem. Whether you're a founder raising capital, an investor spotting trends, or just someone who likes knowing where the smart money is flowingāthis roundup is your weekly competitive edge. Letās dive in šHarmonic identifies visionary entrepreneurs launching companies before any other provider.
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2 months ago | 
newsletter.rootsofprogress.org | Jason Crawford |Ethan Mollick |Tomas Pueyo |Noah Smith
2024 was a big year for me, and an even bigger year for the Roots of Progress Institute (RPI). For one, we became the Roots of Progress Institute (with a nice new logo and website). Here's what the org and I were up to this year. (My annual “highlights from what I read this year” are towards the end, if you're looking for that.)Progress Conference 2024, hosted by RPI together with several great co-presenters, was the highlight of my year, and I think some other people's too.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com | Tomas Pueyo
In the previous article, we saw how many powers are involved in Syria, and how there are winners and losers. Today, we’re going to explore exactly what’s happening on each side: Israel, Russia, Turkey, Europe, Iran, Kurds, and Fundamentalist Sunni Islam. Syria has been a threat to Israel for decades. Now, Israel is taking advantage of the chaos in Syria to eliminate that threat in the short term and weaken it in the long term. How?
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin |Tomas Pueyo
In the United States, the Democratic Party has long been the party of public welfare. It was meant to ensure that the economy thrived, that people remained employed, that we had social safety nets in place when people lost their jobs or retired, that our children received a good education, and that we have access to good healthcare when we have an accident or get sick.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
tomaspueyo.medium.com | Tomas Pueyo
Tomas Pueyo·Follow9 min read·--Some people fear there are too many humans on Earth. They’re wrong. We could 12x our population, from 8 billion (8B) today to 100B if we wanted to, while maintaining quality of life on Earth. Where would we all fit? Could we feed everybody? Wouldn’t pollution explode and ecosystems collapse? This is what we’ll answer today.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com | Tomas Pueyo
I don't know Anders Sandberg did his but I was trying to come up with a estimate of how much energy we can use. Today we use ~20TW and the Earth energy imbalance (ie global warming) is 460TW (source: )So ~20x more energy use we will reach the level of current global warming(*). So yes, reaching 120x is possible by pumping greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and injecting sulfur in the stratosphere. I would like to point out that a huge chunk of future energy use will be compute power.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com | Tomas Pueyo
Some people fear there are too many humans on Earth. They’re wrong. We could 12x our population, from 8B today to 100B if we wanted to, while maintaining quality of life on Earth. Where would we all fit? Could we feed everybody? Wouldn’t pollution explode and ecosystems collapse? This is what we’ll answer today.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com | Tomas Pueyo
Thomas, Thanks for explaining about desalination. I've been thinking we'll need more desalination plants because of the increasing demand for water for data centers. However, your idea that "the prices of both solar photovoltaics and batteries have been dropping at about 12% per year for decades! That’s why solar plus batteries can now cost $0.12 per kWh,⁸ and that number will keep falling at ~12%/year.
