Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, On one hand, I’m a capitalist investor. I study market cycles, track returns, think about diversification, and invest, quite deliberately, in the stock market. I do this to build retirement capital. To sleep at night. To avoid becoming a financial burden on my boys before we stepContinue reading “Ruminations on Investments, Retirement and Anxiety”
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Ruminations on abundance, austerity and hypocrisy
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Forgive Me Groupies Forgive me, groupies, for my merciful silence these past few weeks. Life has come at me fast, deadlines, distractions, and the usual existential dread. But what finally pulled me back to the keyboard was a dinner I had this week with an old friendContinue reading “Ruminations on abundance, austerity and hypocrisy”
Ruminations on Social Justice, Narratives Being the Truth, and Decarbonisation
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Tomorrow, I begin teaching my decarbonisation course for the third time to postgraduate students far younger, far more sleep-deprived, and far more socially enlightened than I ever was at that age. Writing today’s blog is a last-ditch attempt to clarify the swirling mess of messages and competingContinue reading “Ruminations on Social Justice, Narratives Being the Truth, and Decarbonisation”
Ruminations on hamsters, capitalism and doughnuts
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies As some of my more socialist colleagues have diagnosed, I am apparently an anarcho-capitalist. For the uninitiated, that’s someone who dreams of a utopia where the free market replaces governments and common sense, with private companies managing roads, courts, and probably your gran’s knitting club. Fantastic, right?Continue reading “Ruminations on hamsters, capitalism and doughnuts”
Ruminations on cognitive dissonance, climate change and Parisian wishful thinking
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies First, I want to return to my dark old friend, cognitive dissonance. Some rightly accuse me of using complex language. Cognitive dissonance is that awkward brain glitch when you’re doing one thing but know deep down you should be doing the exact opposite—like eating a large pizzaContinue reading “Ruminations on cognitive dissonance, climate change and Parisian wishful thinking”
Further Ruminations on Whether Green Hydrogen in South Africa Might be a Boondoggle
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies I know that I can a be bit boring and tedious about green hydrogen, but I haven’t talked about it for a least a few months so it’s time to go there again as I must. For those of you who have tired of this nerdy topic pleaseContinue reading “Further Ruminations on Whether Green Hydrogen in South Africa Might be a Boondoggle”
Ruminations on sustainability
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies In 2023 I was assigned to teach a postgraduate course on sustainability. When I mumbled something along the lines that I’m not particularly qualified to teach sustainability I got a response something along the lines of that having worked in the energyContinue reading “Ruminations on sustainability”
Eclectic ruminations on forecasts, dead horses, and climate change
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies Dearly beloved readers, as you may have inferred from my previous blog posts, I’m deeply passionate about the issues surrounding forecasts and ambitious target-setting. To say I have a bee in my bonnet about it is an understatement—I have a whole hive buzzing with thoughts on this topic.Continue reading “Eclectic ruminations on forecasts, dead horses, and climate change “
Ruminations on grifters, subsidy harvesting, and dumb money in the energy transition
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies This week, as promised and since the holidays are over, I will return to the topic of energy. Looking at some of my earlier blog posts on energy there was a lot of engineering techno-nerd stuff written by someone in the mirror who has extreme intuition about allContinue reading “Ruminations on grifters, subsidy harvesting, and dumb money in the energy transition”
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