Philosophy is supposed to be "its time grasped in thought" and I'm trying to do my bit in these fast moving times.

I posted an essay yesterday on how polycrises are giving way to polyconflicts. Later that day, I was talking to a colleague and the helium shock came up as a second-order consequence of the third gulf war.

I decided to dig a little deeper, and it turns out that the nexus between helium, natural gas, MRIs and semiconductors is both fascinating and tragic.

Here's an essay on the helium shock.

The larger lesson to be learned here: we need to be building local resilience system after local resilence system. For health, for agri, for tech,....

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