Public
Civic and public-facing thought: politics, policy, economics, technology, and society.
The Weight of Words
How language bundles description and judgment.
Translation Smoke Test
English fixture used to verify multilingual article routing.
The Mobility Paradox
Europe is more equal than America. But is it more open? An evolving perspective on inheritance, inequality, regulation, and who really gets to move up.
How Much of a Degrowther Are You?
An evolving perspective on the history, definition, principles, and personal implications of degrowth.
Agent Native Applications
A first-principles definition of agent native applications: software products reorganized around delegated intent, governed AI agents, and supervisory interfaces, with email as the central example.
Climate Change Without the Panic and Without the Denial
A data-backed climate argument that separates measured warming from emissions accounting, historical responsibility, consumption-based trade, and the current geography of CO2 growth.
Why Deutsche Bahn Is Late
A research-backed diagnosis of Deutsche Bahn's punctuality crisis: lost network slack, overloaded corridors, delayed renewal, construction disruption, and muddled rail governance.
Germany's Heat Problem Was Not a Surprise
A DWD station-data analysis of German summer heat, hot nights, and heatwaves since 1951, and why heat adaptation should have been treated as infrastructure.
State of the AI Industry
A living analysis of the AI industry across six layers — from silicon to business domains — written from the vantage point of a Data Scientist who helps organizations make better decisions.
The Economics of LLMs: Training, Inference, and Who Pays
Training a frontier model costs nine figures. Serving it costs fractions of a cent per token. The gap between those two numbers defines who can compete in AI — and who gets left out.