Exploring questions I don't yet fully understand.
Long-form takes on biotech, agriculture, the systems we live inside, and a few things in between. The three newest are below — the rest sit in the index underneath.
The Hackathon Economy: Why AI Changed the Game
Bring Back Direct Democracy
France's Electricity Suicide
The full index
24 more- Jun 22
The Real French Tax Rate
Put €1,000,000 in one person's pocket and watch what's left. Salary, you keep 26%. Dividends, 44%. The real French tax rate isn't a number, it's a set of incentives.
- Jun 15
AI Just Got a Passport
This week the best AI on Earth got a border. Not a paywall. A border. The most powerful tools we have ever built now check your nationality at the door.
- Jun 8
The Anti-Nutrients Nobody Tells You About
Spinach has 1,145mg of oxalates per 100g. The oxalates bind to the iron and calcium in the spinach. The label tells you about the iron. It doesn't tell you that you're absorbing almost none of it.
- Jun 1
Calories Should Be Divided by Ten
A calorie is so small that everything is measured in thousands of them. The unit is wrong. Divide it by ten and stop dealing with four-digit numbers for a sandwich.
- May 25
Time Is Broken New version
We're 2026 years into what, exactly? One religious event. The only honest unit is the day. So stop counting years and count days. You're not 27. You're day 9,866, and it moves every morning.
- May 18
The Case for Slower Globalization
Borders are softening. Cultures are mixing. Mostly this is good. But there's a speed at which it starts erasing the places that made the journey worth taking in the first place.
- May 11
Too Many Doors, No Exit
Canada didn't lose control of immigration by letting too many people in. It lost control by building a dozen ways in and no way out.
- May 4
Give Homeless People Card Terminals
Cash is dying. Charity is dying with it. The fix is municipal payment terminals, but really, in a country this rich, there shouldn't be a need for them at all.
- Apr 27
The People's Bank
A bank that doesn't lend, doesn't speculate, doesn't have shareholders. Just a place to store money. With modern infrastructure, this is basically free to run.
- Apr 20
You Shouldn't Vote on Your Own Paycheck
If your income comes from the government, you shouldn't vote on how much it pays you. The most basic rule in finance and law, applied to the ballot box.
- Apr 13
Flying Needs Rules
Same seat, same flight, same day, two people paid prices that differ by 600%. Here are the rules flying needs.
- Apr 6
The Subsidy Scams Nobody Talks About
Diagnostic immobilier. Mandatory home security inspections. Permit consultants. Entire professions exist because the government created them, not because the market needs them.
- Mar 30
The End of Generalist Doctors
AI diagnoses skin cancer better than 80% of general practitioners. It reads x-rays better than most radiologists. The GP referral system is about to be replaced by a phone.
- Mar 23
The End of Lawyers
Most legal work is pattern matching across precedent. AI does pattern matching better than humans, faster, cheaper, and 24 hours a day. The billable hour is finished.
- Mar 16
Canadian Healthcare Eats the Budget
Canada will spend a record $399 billion on health care this year, and the median wait still hit 28.6 weeks. More money, longer lines, every single year, in a system that won't even count who it pays for.
- Mar 9
Your Taxes Should Build Your Neighborhood
You pay 50% of your income to a government that builds roads in places you'll never see. Here's a different model.
- Mar 2
Insurance Is a Scam
A 4,000-year-old industry built on collecting money and refusing to pay it back. The pyramid is real, and Warren Buffett built his fortune on it.
- Feb 23
The Death of Consultants
A $500 billion industry built on copy-paste, by their own admission, fails 70% of the time. AI is going to finish the job.
- Feb 16
Pay Your Staff
Tipping used to be 5%. Now it's 30%. Same plate, same effort, three times the guilt. This is what happened.
- Feb 9
The Beer Index
Forget GDP. Forget cost-of-living reports. The price of a beer tells you everything you need to know about a city.
- Feb 2
Why Long Articles Are Dead
I used to write 30-page articles with charts, schematics, and footnotes. Nobody read them. Here's the format I'm using instead.
- Jan 26
Diamonds Aren't Timeless. They're Worthless.
A 1-carat diamond costs €119 on Alibaba. Your jeweler charges €900 for the same stone. Here's why.
- Jan 19
Learning to Build: What nanotech Taught Me About Writing Code
I came to web development through the back door, automating lab workflows, then building tools for colleagues, then realizing I actually enjoyed it. The scientific mindset turned out to be more useful than I expected.
- Jan 12
The Living Soil: Why What's Beneath Your Feet Matters More Than You Think
Soil isn't just dirt, it's a complex ecosystem teeming with billions of microorganisms. Understanding the biology beneath our feet could be the key to more resilient, productive agriculture.