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A list of fundamental and popular articles:

https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-role-of-character-and-ideology-in-prosperity/

Prices for a lot of things are going to rise significantly soon, and in many cases there will be shortages or zero supply entirely. If you can, stock up now and check your power situation: is your country going to keep the grid functional?

https://www.ianwelsh.net/personal-consequences-of-the-iran-war/

Personal Consequences Of The Iran War – Ian Welsh

Reminder, this is the biggest geopol even of any of our lives. The Iran war is the end of the Global American Empire, it'll still be a regional great power for a while, but the Empire is dying as you watch.
Best thing I ever read about what a good economy is, is that it's when you can start a cat cafe with a bookshop and it's viable.

Ehrlich just underestimate how long a system can stay in overshoot before it crashes out.

The ecological version of "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

The hate for him from tech bros is over-wrought. Climate change and ecological collapse exist.

What's the best type of beer to cook a pork stew or pot roast in?

Gygax's productivity was unrivalled. Insane.

Stafford was productive, but he was creative in ways Gygax never was.

(Runequest's game system, however, is garbage.)

the only RPG creator more important than Greg Stafford was Gary Gygax and only because he created and nurtured the industry. (Arneson's helped create D&D, but he didn't stick around and write the sourcebooks.)

D&D nerds who hate Gygax are ungrateful turds.

In other news that no one followed me to hear, the best RPG world is Glorantha, nothing else comes close and I will fight to the death for the truth of this opinion.
As much as I like Cyberpunk (played the original Cyberpunk 2020 when it came out) I've always thought that Shadowrun was a better game with better world building, at least while the original FASA still owned it.
Still, this will reduce or end most of your low grade anxiety. It's a HUGE win.