✍🏼 Essays

Every week you get a thought-provoking essay on how you can understand and create the future.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

🌞 Insanely low solar prices

Even the most optimistic forecasters have been wrong, the price of solar energy has dropped even faster. Soon it is cheaper to build new solar energy than to retain existing coal and gas.

Mathias Sundin 22 min read

πŸ’‘ Warp Manifesto for the 2020s

The Warp Institute Foundation wants to help make people more optimistic about the future. It makes them more involved in creating that future, so we can bend the curve for humanity's development and make the future come faster.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ“ˆ To build we need optimism

Netscape's founder, and the creator of the first web browser, Marc Andreessen wants us to build more. For that, we need more optimism. Optimists have more ideas, create more out of the ideas and do not give up as easily.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ”­ Wright's Law is the best way to predict the future

Understanding the future is the most valuable knowledge there is. The prime example is Moore's Law. But there is another law with even higher accuracy that can teach us a lot about the future, not at least about electric cars.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

πŸ‰ Mother of Dragons acted like all dictators

Many were surprised when Daenerys chose to destroy King's Landing with her dragon. But it was the most realistic moment in the entire series (apart from the use of a dragon ...) Authoritarian power always leads to the slaughter of innocents.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

πŸ’‰ This will be humanity's last pandemic (in a good way)

There are two main reasons why humanity will never face a pandemic as severe as the coronavirus again.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

🀳 The Internet has made Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump possible

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump would have been chanceless years ago, but because of the internet, they can get past the party's gatekeepers and win.

Mathias Sundin 8 min read

πŸš— Tesla's unique position beyond the hype

Has the stock market gone crazy or is there substance behind the hype? To value Tesla, one must understand the dramatic change the automotive industry is going through and how Tesla is leading that change.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

More self-driving cars mean fewer traffic jams

As little as seven percent of self-driving cars on the roads can double the average speed of congested roads.