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An Insufficient Decade

We are entering a decade of insufficiency. We’ll at once feel like we’re making insufficient progress on the climate problem and…

Nov 24, 2022

Nov 24, 2022

Valuing Avoidance of Climate Tipping Points

This piece originally appeared in The Impact, 4th May, 2021

Oct 20, 2022

Valuing Avoidance of Climate Tipping Points

Oct 20, 2022

Oil execs are talking about life after oil. Should we believe them?

Originally published in The Impact, 18th May, 2021

Oct 20, 2022

Oil execs are talking about life after oil. Should we believe them?

Oct 20, 2022

A key week in the death of oil

Originally published in The Impact; 2nd June 2021

Oct 20, 2022

A key week in the death of oil

Oct 20, 2022

Life after a caustic election

It’s the day after the 2020 election as I write this. It looks as though Joe Biden will win enough states to win 270+ Electoral College…

Nov 4, 2020

Nov 4, 2020

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The Startup

Conferences after COVID

Nobody, lying on their deathbed, ever said: “I wish I’d attended more conferences”

Apr 15, 2020

Conferences after COVID

Apr 15, 2020

Musings on Malthus

“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape…

Feb 25, 2020

Feb 25, 2020

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Stories from the Decentralized Web

Decentralizing: ending walled gardens

Beyond the walled garden

Jan 7, 2020

Decentralizing: ending walled gardens

Jan 7, 2020

Published in
The Startup

How hard could this be?

How hard, how difficult, how expensive will it be to convert most, nearly all, of the world’s energy consumption from fossil fuels to…

Dec 3, 2019

Dec 3, 2019

And all the rights and privileges …

If you’ve graduated from a U.S. university, you get a degree and a piece of paper that includes the words: “with all the Rights…

Nov 11, 2019

Nov 11, 2019

John Patrick Ryan

John Patrick Ryan

Tech executive and strategy consultant. Writing and thinking about long term global economic trends. Strategy in cases where the science remains uncertain.

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