Weekenders

Sunday Edition: 20th September

Weekender

17 min

See here for the short overviews of all the content we published last week, plus links to each full note. Further down, there’s also some links to other interesting stuff we came across on our travels around the internet.

Asteroid mining pitch decks are real now (so is the biggest oil shock in history)

11 min

Sunday Edition: 13th September

17 min

When AI builds everything, someone still has to supply the ingredients

11 min

Sunday Edition: 6th September

17 min

Live forever, never work again… But we still have a whole lot of digging to do first

14 min

Sunday Edition: 30th August

21 min

29 years since "Judgement Day", the robots came, but they're helping us instead

Weekender

Aug 29, 2026

11 min

Today is August 29th, 2026. August 29th, 1997, was the day Skynet became self-aware, launched a global nuclear attack, which was followed by unleashing armies of murderous, superintelligent robots onto the human race. 29 years later… We DO have robots and AI. Just not much super intelligent robo-murdering. AI is busy helping discover new medicines to cure cancer… and helping white collar professionals who can’t write to spray AI slop onto LinkedIn at unprecedented rates.

Sunday Edition: 23rd August

Weekender

Aug 23, 2026

20 min

Here you can find short overviews of all the content we published last week, plus links to each full note. We've also included some links to other interesting stuff we came across on our travels around the internet.

Everything becomes infinite, except the stuff we dig up

Weekender

Aug 22, 2026

15 min

A terrible week for the global sunscreen industrial complex. This week AI assisted a big-pharma company (Moderna) to develop a skin cancer vaccine that works. The company went up nearly 300% (adding $44BN market cap). No more skin cancer. …and it looks like early signs that AI may actually eventually help us all live forever. People living forever? I went further down that rabbit hole this week. Humans living for a couple of hundred years is actually a LOT closer than I expected but it doesn't make the mainstream news… just yet. Here is what I found out...

Sunday Edition: 16th August

Weekender

Aug 16, 2026

19 min

Below you can find short overviews of all the content we published last week, plus links to each full note. Further down, there’s also some links to other interesting stuff we came across on our travels around the internet.

You can't print your way out of a metal problem… Or a scandium one

Weekender

Aug 15, 2026

20 min

Exactly 55 years ago, President Nixon announced he was "temporarily" suspending the US dollar's convertibility into gold. (yep, each US dollar used to be convertible into gold from the US gov…) ~95 years ago, the then global super power, Britain, announced that the Pound Sterling (the global reserve currency at the time) would no longer be backed by gold… (World Wars aren't cheap, and you can’t print gold backed currency) Read on to find out how the British Empire’s actions back in 1914 set off a chain of events over the last 100 years that led to small ASX stocks going up for the last 2 weeks

Weekenders