E-books are better than paper books. They cost nothing to deliver. They’re cheaper than paper books. They don’t kill trees. They’re lighter and easier to read. They can also be updated, and that’s important.

Anyone who thinks Xi Jinping is sleeping easy these days has it wrong. The man has taken to wearing Mao suits and it suits him. Mao Zedong destroyed his national economy, multiple times. I don’t think the Chinese people are willing to go through it for Xi, even once.

If only 2% of us are on an e-bike, cities will remain car centric. Wherever the riding population gets into double digits, you start to see accommodations. I’m talking about protected bike lanes and laws against car encroachment. The Beltline is a start to making that happen.

The irony is that this justifies the strategy of Japan’s Toyota

Over the last month I’ve been treated on TV to a parade of so-called financial experts, each one confidently predicting that a recession is imminent, that it’s baked in, that it will likely be severe. It was all bullshit.

I am tired of the economics of fairy dust, and I’m tired of economists who see everything through a moral or ideological prism. Follow the data and ignore “experts” who don’t.

There’s a bargain to capitalism. You can make as much money as you want, but you’re subject to the law. In the best capitalist systems, this makes you subject to the will of other people. Thanks to Citizens United and dark money, too many of today’s billionaires have decided the bargain is no longer in effect.

There will be a reshuffling, away from basic enablement like cloud and A.I. “operating systems,” toward applications and solutions.

Maybe hundreds of millions are going to die horrible, premature deaths because oil oligarchs ignored the climate crisis. Some of those oligarchs will join them

Lighter batteries, storing more energy, will evolve to eliminate the gas engine, but for now hybrid is the way to go.