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Before it was ever a front line, Mokha was just an aroma.
Musings
Musings
Through thought provoking articles, essays, and reflections, Richard shares his visionary insights, challenging us to reimagine the world we live in. This archive brings Richard's public writing back onto his own domain while preserving the original Substack and Patreon networks.
The Metabolism of Discourse
We are living through an era in which the compression of attention has become so total that we no longer register it as compression.
What The Borrowing Buys
Reflections on Debt in Australia and Elsewhere
Fantasy Worlds
Children Who Read the Future as an Instruction Manual
Do Not Build Below This Point
What it would take for officialdom to remember the water
The Arithmetic of Standing Still
Australia’s productivity angst and the economics of presence
The Little Blue Book
And the fiction we nostalgically call the international order
Who Is Allowed To Say Stop?
A summons to pause unconstrained development of AI
Gambling With Our Lives
Why Saving Humanity is a Competitive Disadvantage
Elasticity Has Its Limits
It might sound implausible, but a Patriot interceptor missile takes longer to build than a war takes to fight.
Misreading Xi
An Alternative Argument for Australia's Public Inquiry into AUKUS to Consider
What Life’s All About
We live, let’s be honest, in a world that appears to be losing its mind.
Beyond the Reach of Recovery
Collapse, Ecology, and the Unforgiving Present
Star Performer Of The Year
The Inevitability Lie and other Evidence
Consent Without Consequences
A World Learning to Ask New Questions
Some Truths About Getting Old
Modern society has developed a peculiar habit of romanticising old age.
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The Crown and the Machine
A man in his late seventies stands before the British Parliament wearing several centuries of borrowed authority — crown, ermine, a phalanx of guards whose uniforms date from wars nobody living can possibly remember —...
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