Doomberg is the pseudonymous group behind the #1 Finance Newsletter on Substack, Doomberg. The team’s background is in heavy industry, private equity, and the hard sciences. Read Doomberg at doomberg.substack.com.
[0:16] - How Doomberg reinvented itself from a group of consultants to produce the #1 Finance Newsletter on Substack
[4:28] - Leaving a steady and reliable career to pursue creative and entrepreneurial interests
[9:15] - Replacing meetings with complete asynchronous communications, and polyphasic sleeping to write at 3am
[15:11] - Why Doomberg chooses to remain pseudonymous
[18:24] - Doom scrolling and defensive pessimism
[21:33] - Public misunderstandings relating to energy
[26:01] - Doomberg’s opinion on the optimal energy strategy
[32:31] - Countering arguments against nuclear energy development
[36:31] - Countries that most successfully embracing nuclear energy
[38:57] - The politics around nuclear energy in The United States
[42:41] - Doomberg’s perspective on the European energy crisis
[47:30] - Why Doomberg predicts fossil fuel consumption will be greater in 2040 than it is today
[51:28] - How energy proliferation can advance the development of humanity
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