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Simulation
The Physics of Thought I. The Pincer There's a moment in Christopher Nolan's Tenet where the audience's understanding of the film inverts.
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Q.E.D.
On Encountering an Object That Doesn't Require Your Permission to Exist I. The Shared Platform Everyone lives inside a shared assumption. It cuts across every division
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The Tesseract
I. An object outside of time In Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, Cooper falls into the black hole Gargantua and finds himself inside a tesseract—a four-dimensional
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Crossing the Threshold: a NY26' reflection
At the start of the year 2025, I wrote some essays asking two questions: why do you believe what you believe, and what is your world view? During
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2026: A Most Dangerous Year
Why 2026 May Surpass 1914 and 1939 in Systemic Risk "Today, we heard yet another signal from Moscow that they are preparing to make next year a
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Educated for the Next Frontier
The following is a summary of my keynote given on 28th November 2025 at the Platinum Zambia 1000 Summit. My theme today is simple but uncomfortable: are we
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The Coincidence Stack
When Do Independent Convergences Become Undeniable? TL;DR – The Short Version of A Wild Claim Imagine you fused Asimov’s psychohistory, Newton’s obsession with future timelines, and
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Pay Today, Power Tomorrow
The Settlement Trust Solution Zambia has recently been experiencing over twenty hours of power cuts every day. Small businesses are stressed. Hospitals without emergency power can’t keep
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The Coordination Trap
Why economic development fails in Africa when everyone knows what to do TL;DR * The problem isn’t ignorance or capacity; it’s a coordination trap with two
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Zambia, sovereign at 61?
On the 24th of October, Zambia turns sixty-one with much to admire, but without the compounding progress that endurance requires. The country modernized the scaffolding it inherited
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A Murder, and the Question Beneath It
On September 10, 2025, a rooftop gunman killed Charlie Kirk as he spoke at Utah Valley University. Police named Tyler Robinson as the prime suspect, 22, arrested after
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