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Watching election results play out is as close to sport enthusiasm as I get. Zambia had a General Election on 13th August, and the results are currently being announced. As of 5:30pm on Sunday 16th August, 105 results have been announced. I've put together an analysis of
The election at the hinge, and the two economies before Zambia TL;DR Zambia votes on 13 August 2026 at the hinge of its economic cycle: after repair has recreated discretion, before any settlement exists to govern it. This essay measures the election, prices the futures it selects between, and
What sixty years of reactionary decision making cost, and what deciding well is worth Zambia has spent sixty years changing who owns the mine, who taxes the mine, who finances the state and who gets blamed when the arithmetic fails. The deeper problem was always simpler: ownership was mistaken for
What is the ultimate purpose and meaning of life? I. The Question the Machines Forced Purpose defined as function was always a lease. Automation has served the notice of termination. In November 2019, Lee Sedol retired from professional Go. He was thirty-six years old and one of the greatest
A Prosecutorial Reading of Islam’s Own Testimony Ibn Khaldun, the 14th-century North African jurist and historian, observed that revolutions are born at the frontier — where the settled world ends and the desert begins, where the softness of civilisation has not yet arrived and the hunger for
Over the last year I've had a recurring conversation with some friends. In the age of artificial intelligence, with Artificial General Intelligence emerging and Artificial Super Intelligence expected soon after--what entrepreneurial opportunities will be left? What should we be doing? Are we allocating to the right sets
Today I’ve turned 37. There’s something about getting older that’s subtle enough to be invisible when you’re younger. One can be a little more carefree when young. At 37 I feel the aches of my body more on bad days. I notice
Then I said, "Behold, I have come — in the scroll of the book it is written of me." — Psalm 40:7 I. Exordium — It Is Written of Me There is a way the apostles read the Psalms and it is not the way you were
War, Disclosure, Artificial Godhood, and the Final Operating Environment In The Day After Tomorrow , the world does not end because there were no warnings. The data exists. The models warn. The scientists see the shape of the disaster before the politicians do. The signs are measurable. But the world continues
Physics, the Trinity, and the Reality of the Unseen In Arrival , humanity is confronted by signs it cannot read. Enormous vessels appear across the earth. Inside them are beings whose language is written in circular forms, ink-like figures suspended in air. The signs appear opaque: symbol without grammar, signal
The Cube, The Block, And The Question Of Actuality In the TV show  Dark Matter , the cube is a doorway into every life that might have been. Step inside, and the self is no longer one story but a corridor of unrealized histories. Every choice opens onto another world.
A sequel to Testament Testament. On an ordinary person’s extraordinary journey I became a Christian when I was nine years old. I don’t remember the moment. My mother tells me we were at church as a family — a Baptist church in Mbabane, where my father
On an ordinary person's extraordinary journey I became a Christian when I was nine years old. I don't remember the moment. My mother tells me we were at church as a family — a Baptist church in Mbabane, where my father worked at the time. The
In Andrew Niccol's 1997 film Gattaca , two brothers swim out into the open ocean. It is a game they have played since childhood — a test of nerve, endurance, will. The first to turn back loses. Anton is the younger brother, but he was engineered to be more.
There is a moment in The Chosen: Last Supper when the room goes quiet. The disciples have been arguing. Peter is performing certainty he does not feel. Judas has already made the calculation. The crowd that shouted Hosanna four days ago is cooling into the mob that will shout Crucify