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Tariffs R Us

  • Mitch Smith

Mitch Smith

Sep 18, 2025 • 8 min read
Tariffs R Us

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Happy New Year, Spinach!

Happy New Year, Spinach!

Ten days on from the Winter solstice and I imagine the days are staying lighter just a shade longer. If they aren't, they should be. The truth is today, the first day of 2026, will have 36 seconds more daylight than the last day of 2025. I guess
Jan 6, 2026 4 min read
Stealing the Common From the Goose

Stealing the Common From the Goose

The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. – Anonymous, "The Goose and the Common" I started writing about Reflect Orbital as a mental health distraction from the
Dec 16, 2025 11 min read
A graph of solar panel energy output versus hours of the day on Nov 5-6, 2025. 28.6 kWh of electricity was produced during daylight, and 0.0 kWh or electricity was produced under a full moon.

At the Circus

“If you can come up with something that [rich people will] regard as special, you can really make a lot of money selling to them,” said Robert Frank, a professor of management and economics at Cornell. “So, a lot of the ingenuity in the economy gets directed to things that
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