Libido Sciendi
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Energy and Civilization: The Physical Constraints Behind Every Technology Bet Mar 2026 Vaclav Smil reveals why transitions take generations, why welfare saturates at 110 GJ, and why energy enables but never determines. · 17 min
Four Books, One Synthesis: Can We Power the Intelligence Revolution? Mar 2026 Energy, compute and the thermodynamic ceiling of AI scaling. · 18 min
Top reads
Surviving the Reset: A Framework for AI Competitive Advantage What separates the companies that will survive the correction. · 15 min
On Systemic Errors: Probabilistic LLMs at Scale When your system is wrong 2% of the time but processes a billion requests. · 10 min
Market Sizing for Founders A practical framework for sizing markets when you're building something new. · 10 min
Journal
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Mar 25, 2026 Bestioles' Confidential Dinner: The Turbo-Chicken and What It Tells Us About Industrial Food
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A few weeks ago I was invited to one of Bestioles' "Dîners Confidentiels", intimate evenings the foundation organizes to bring together people genuinely engaged with animal welfare and… read → 7 min
Mar 23, 2026 Prix Turgot 2026: Reading the Room at Bercy
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Yesterday evening I attended the 39th Prix Turgot at the Centre Pierre Mendès France in Bercy, France's annual rendez-vous for the best books in financial and economic writing, one I always look… read → 15 min
Mar 20, 2026 AI-Driven Drug Discovery: From Concept to Execution
The field crossed a critical threshold in June 2025: the first peer-reviewed Phase IIa results for a molecule where both target and compound were discovered entirely by generative AI. Insilico… read → 3 min
Mar 18, 2026 Molecular Farming and the Reinvention of Crop Protection
The crop protection market is undergoing a compulsory transformation. On one side, EU regulations increasingly cap active ingredient volumes per hectare (Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009), and farmers… read → 1 min
Mar 12, 2026 Q1 2026: AI's Industrialisation, VC Bifurcation, and the French Tech Paradox
The headline this quarter: AI's industrialisation is well underway, but the gap between what models can do and what enterprises actually deploy keeps widening. Capability accelerated roughly 2x in… read → 3 min
Library
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Steak Machine ★★★★
Changement de quart ★★★★
What Is Life?: Evolution as Computation ★★★★★
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations ★★★★★
Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses ★★★★★
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers ★★★★★
Strategy: A History ★★★★★
Intelligence artificielle; intelligence humaine : la double énigme ★★★★★
These Strange New Minds ★★★★★
How To Think Like Socrates ★★★★★
Reading list
Atlas of AI
Chip War
L'Évangile selon Pilate
La mort et le printemps
The Investment Philosophers
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
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