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I’ll be honest, before bibi’s war, I had no idea that half the world’s economies can only run on a few months of energy reserves before all hell breaks loose unless the strait of Hormuz is letting oil and gas flow.

The world is a lot more fragile than I thought and I’ve been living under a comfortable illusion that it wasn’t.
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Jason Ansley | Fractional COO | Leadership Coach · 2d
It’s crazy isn’t it? Friedman wrote about globalization a few decades ago at this point and yet we still don’t grasp the concept of anti-fragility or as one of my favorite books frames, resiliency. I’m not perfect and fact of the matter is, I still have a long way to go in ensuring I prosp...
The Photonsphere · 2d
energy and fertilizers and other oil derived products (that's almost everything nowadays) plus the vulnerable undersea internet cables 🤯
Marc · 2d
I feel the same way. Didn't expect Iran to be the catalyst for peak oil.
Corey San Diego · 2d
A world built on credit has everyone living paycheck to paycheck.
El Guirri · 2d
Its +/-100m bbl/day global consumption. Its way too much for storage and there's lots of systemic fragility and choke points. Its why pipeline placement becomes such a strategic control element in geopolitics. Look up history of Unocal pipeline plans and have a little think about what Afghanistan wa...
MediT · 2d
I know he’s not loved by Bitcoiners, but Zeihan is a worthwhile read for this stuff.
Henkipatto · 2d
Good book to start https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169354
cipres · 2d
Many countries that were highly dependent on oil imports from the Middle east are now moving away from fossil fuels ... Cuba for example refuses to be at the mercy of oil embargos and is embracing solar energy (makes sense given the island's climate) with help from China. https://www.scmp.com/econo...
captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 · 2d
u better READ how WW2 started JAPAN was cutoff from ENERGY for months