Libido Sciendi
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Deep Dives
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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
all →Notes, field reports & reactions
Mar 29, 2026 Logic, Memory, Power: The Three Bottlenecks to Scaling AI Compute
Dylan Patel maps the three hard constraints on AI compute, and the picture is worse than the capex numbers suggest. The standard framework for AI capacity lists four drivers: energy, compute, data,… read → 10 min
Mar 26, 2026 On Thinking with (AI) Machines: Cognitive Debt, Cognitive Surrender and Symbiogenesis
I came across a paper today that I haven't been able to put down (visual summary here). Published just a few weeks ago, Shaw and Nave from Wharton have extended Kahneman's dual-process theory to… read → 3 min
Mar 25, 2026 Bestioles' Confidential Dinner: The Turbo-Chicken and What It Tells Us About Industrial Food
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 environmental… read → 7 min
Mar 23, 2026 Prix Turgot 2026: Reading the Room at Bercy
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
Library
all →Recently read
Steak Machine ★★★★
Changement de quart ★★★★
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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