Michael Kao
@UrbanKaoboy
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Musings of the Day, 9/18/26
I find it interesting that Norway and Iceland are the only two Scandinavian countries that opted to stay out of the EU.
Norway and Iceland are the two most North Atlantic countries of the five. Their economies were historically built around highly valuable resources lying within nationally controlled waters — especially fish, and in Norway’s case oil and gas.
That gave both countries something Sweden, Finland and Denmark lacked:
the economic luxury of saying “No” due to Geography and Natural Resources.
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS.
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Travelog, 9/16/26
First time to Oslo and really liking this city already.
Musings of the Day, 9/16/26:
I’ve finally gotten around to reading _Neuromancer_, the OG sci-fi of cyberpunkdom, virtual reality and AI.
Seems like we should learn some lessons from it on how to deal with AGI:
“…the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing’ll wipe it. Nobody trusts those fuckers, you know that. Every AI ever built has an electro magnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.”
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Musings of the Day, 9/14/26:
This is what I imagine the people of Hammerfest look like. 🤘
Musings of the Day, 8/20/26:
Unpopular Opinion:
The current USD weakness has more to do with Geopolitics than with anything else, including Interest Rate Diffs and Deficits.
How the US ultimately fares in Hormuz and in Taiwan will determine the USD's Hegemonic Premium more than anything else.
This is what I wrote in last week's Weekly KAOS:
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