We are in the current stuff chain mess that we are in because of communism — both real communist actors in the world and a more meta underlying spiritual crisis pushing people towards amoral materialism — intentionally subverting, subsidizing, enslaving, and otherwise seducing the free world into falling asleep about where our stuff comes from.
In this week’s Where Stuff Comes From Briefing: How and why Rare Earth Elements and Afghanistan are a massive opportunity for whoever seizes it (re: China). Cheers, Max What to Read and Watch About Rare Earths, Afghanistan and China: Afghanistan’s Mineral Resources Are a Lost Opportunity and a Threat China Read more…
In this week’s Where Stuff Comes From Weekly: The U.S. energy grid is under attack, ransomware attacks will impact your stuff chains, and a NEW PODCAST episode: where rare earth elements come from. Cheers and gratitude, Max (CYBER) !ATTACK! On Largest U.S. Oil Pipeline! Over the last 20 years, our world Read more…
In this week’s Where Stuff Comes From Weekly: Space and GPS are critical parts of the stuff-chain, we need more semiconductors, and how the Texas ‘icepocalypse’ triggered a global plastics shortage. Cheers, Max Space: A Key Innovation Resource In The Cold War With China Right now, the most important geopolitical competition Read more…
In this week’s Where Stuff Comes From Weekly: the most dangerous and most relevant parts of our ‘stuff-chain’ relationships with the Chinese Communist Party.
‘Where stuff comes from’ embodies deep first-principle physics, technological, philosophical, strategic, historical, and geopolitical considerations that will define the fate of governments, the present great power conflict, million of businesses in the United Staes and ‘allied’ countries, and every single individual around the world.
“Where Stuff Comes From” will slowly evolve into a modest attempt to tell compelling stories about how raw materials in the ground and in the sky are transformed through a thrilling web of global mining, processing, manufacturing, transportation, and sales machines into the products that we know and love (and that drive our civilization).