Strategic break

Theoretical Space vs. Reality In a previous article, we calculated that the living space for humans on Earth — the zone where we can function without life-support equipment — amounts to approximately 787 million cubic kilometres. A mere 0.073% of the planet’s volume. But that was theoretical space. Places where a human can survive. Now…

The working title of this piece was “I Chose Too Small a Niche.” I’m leaving it here, because it captures the starting point well — but it doesn’t capture the conclusions. A Project There’s No One to Talk To About I’m finishing another project. It’s polished, coherent, with an internal logic that delights me every…

When Leonardo da Vinci designed flying machines, painted The Last Supper and studied human anatomy, no one asked him: “But who are you really — an engineer, a painter, or a scientist?” That made sense. For several hundred years. Today, however, something is changing. That question appeared later, when the world began to demand specialisation….

You’re reading an article. The topic pulls you in. But after the conclusion, a question appears that the article didn’t ask — or asked, but not in the direction that interests you. You can close the tab. You can look for another article that might not exist. Or you can ask a language model —…

Where Can We Actually Live? Earth is our planet. It seems obvious that we can live on it — after all, we have been doing so for hundreds of thousands of years. But if we ask a more precise question: how large is the actual space in which humans can live and work without complex…