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John Patrick Ryan

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…

8 min readNov 24, 2022

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John Patrick Ryan

Valuing Avoidance of Climate Tipping Points

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

4 min readOct 20, 2022

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Valuing Avoidance of Climate Tipping Points

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John Patrick Ryan

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

Originally published in The Impact, 18th May, 2021

5 min readOct 20, 2022

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

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John Patrick Ryan

A key week in the death of oil

Originally published in The Impact; 2nd June 2021

4 min readOct 20, 2022

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A key week in the death of oil

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John Patrick Ryan

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…

2 min readNov 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”

5 min readApr 15, 2020

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Conferences after COVID

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John Patrick Ryan

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…

10 min readFeb 25, 2020

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Stories from the Decentralized Web

Decentralizing: ending walled gardens

Beyond the walled garden

10 min readJan 7, 2020

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Decentralizing: ending walled gardens

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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…

5 min readDec 3, 2019

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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…

1 min readNov 11, 2019

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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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