The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment.
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The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile
For decades, modern civilization has treated efficiency as an unquestioned good: the leaner, faster, and more optimized anything is – from supply chains to your morning routine – the better. But emerging systems science argues that this obs...
[Essay] Foundations Before Outcomes: The Future Beneath Your Feet
This essay is adapted from the Frankly episode posted on July 10th, 2026, titled “Foundations Before Outcomes: The Future Beneath Your Feet,” which is from the series “How to Think About the Future.”
Hello there. Today I want to sha...
When Truth Becomes Hazardous: Navigating Information Through the Metacrisis
This week, I take on a tension I have been navigating for years, at the heart of communicating about the metacrisis: the hazards that arise from sharing true information with a global audience. Building on my earlier episode, “The Limits to...
The End of Globalization: Why Abundance Is an Illusion
For three decades, most of Wall Street has treated energy and commodities as a rounding error, or as a small slice of the portfolio rather than the physical foundation everything else runs on. But in mid-2026, with the Strait of Hormuz disr...
[Essay] Mordor to the Long Repair: How Might Daily Life Feel in the Next Decades?
This essay is adapted from the Frankly episode posted on June 25th, 2026 titled “Mordor to the Long Repair: How Might Daily Life Feel in the Next Decades?,” which is from the series “How to Think About the Future.”
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