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Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies 190/347 days of load shedding in 2022 – currently stage 4 (6 hours a day) It is perhaps a reflection of a disorganised mind that today I will talk about four seemingly unconnected topics. Oliver, my eldest son, is 22 years old and he has spent every ChristmasContinue reading “Ruminations on Christmas, Water, Electricity and Mammals”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies 176/333 days of load shedding in 2022 – currently stage 6 In 2023 I have teaching duties and for my sins, I am going to be teaching a course on sustainability and energy and I am frenetically busy preparing the course material. So, today, as I must, IContinue reading “Ruminations on climate change, carbon pricing and cognitive dissonance”

Bailey as a puppy Aweh dearly beloved ruminants and groupies 169/326 days of load shedding in 2022 For most of my life, we have had a Labrador. I grew up with a golden Labrador, Donna, in an age where there were no walls or fences, and she roamed the neighbourhood eating other dogs’ food andContinue reading “Ruminations on Labradors”

Sam Bankman Fried Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies 162/319 days of load shedding in 2022 Are Fortune and Forbes respectable and reliable business magazines? Are they good judges of character and are they capable of determining what constitutes a good business leader? Not so much it appears. The defenestration of the crypto “genius”Continue reading “Ruminations on business geniuses fried investors and the never-ending cycle”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies 148/305 days of load shedding in 2022 Last week because I am a half-breed between a Vulcan and a human, I allowed my emotions to get the better of me and I posted an emotional blog. Let’s coin the term, “Vulman” for the half-breed that I am. ThisContinue reading “Ruminations on greenwashing and renewable-washing  by a Vulman“

Algernon Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies 141/298 days of load shedding in 2022 I have often been accused of being a nerdy Vulcan. For those of you who are not Star Trek fans (shame on you), the Vulcans are an extra-terrestrial humanoid species who are noted for their attempt to live purely byContinue reading “A tribute to Algernon and Oliver“

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies 136/291 days of load shedding in 2022 How do you define failure? Is your career or marriage a success or a failure? Is your country a failure? If you get divorced or fired, then perhaps you can declare your marriage or career a failure. Not getting divorced orContinue reading “Ruminations on failed states“

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies 129/284 days of load shedding in 2022 Today I wish to return to the topic of bureaucratic violence as a favourite topic of mine. In an earlier blog post I wrote about the late David Graeber who coined the phrase, “bureaucratic violence”. He wrote a book entitled, “TheContinue reading “Ruminations on bureaucratic violence in the green economy“

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies 122/284 days of load shedding in 2022 (A weekend without load shedding!) South Africa has the dubious distinction of having the worst Gini coefficient in the world. This is based on data from 2014. Since then, things have probably got worse. The last eight years have not beenContinue reading “Ruminations on the Gini coefficient, the Zipf law and schools“

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies  122/279 days of load shedding in 2022 Whether you are conscious of it or not everyone except the extremely poor should make investments throughout their lives. You need to do this for the simple reason that barring an early death you will get old and at some point,Continue reading “Ruminations on Ponzi schemes, pig butchering, dubious investments, and the energy transition”