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Reading List 04/11/2026

Is the Strait of Hormuz open yet, building code cost benefit analysis, Intel joining Terafab, sponge cities, and more.

Helium Is Hard to Replace

The war in Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has unfortunately made us all familiar with details of the petroleum supply chain that we could formerly happily ignore.

Reading List 04/04/2026

Aluminum disruptions, the EV rust belt, the ongoing transformer shortage, SpaceX’s IPO, and more

Information and Technological Evolution

I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the literature on technology is somewhat uneven.