Rambling -- Links To Articles -- Some Get Posted, Some Don't -- October 26, 2022

Commentary not ready for prime time.

A huge "thank you" to readers who send me links to articles of interest. It's very hard to explain why I post some and not others. Even if I don't post an article (or a link) I always go to the article and it becomes part of "the blog's DNA" even if it doesn't get published. The most recent example: several readers have alerted me to the oilprice article coming out of Germany, a wind farm being taken down to be turned back into a lignite coal mining operation. 

I would assume the biggest reason some of these articles don't get published: it takes time and it distracts me from the central purpose of the blog: to track the Bakken. 

I used to post a lot of articles on "global warming," but I seldom post those articles any more. I have my "world view" of global warming as do most folks who follow the subject to any degree, and links to "global warming" articles tend not to interest me any more. I know the scam.

In addition, I don't remember exactly "when," and I don't remember exactly "why" it happened, but outside of the Bakken, I have only two real interests with regard to the blog:

• family notes for the archives; after I die, perhaps my great grandchildren will be interested in some of the family notes and photos I post; and,
• investing: about a year ago, I suppose, I became very interested in getting much more serious about investing. I've been investing since 1984, but not with any real plan per se. But now, with a revenue stream that has built up over forty years of investing (dividends, and to some extent, capital gains) I have had to get serious about a plan. Surprisingly, developing (and sticking to) a plan has made investing much more interesting. 

So, whenever a reader sends me a link, I am looking for an investment angle. 

One exception, but that exception has also evolved. I am still fascinated by Covid-19, not the politics, but the science from sources I trust. 

The "evolution"? Now that I'm following the science much more closely and "following the money," I've become interested in the science as well as the investment opportunities. For the science, my only real source are books on the subject (not "mainstream media" articles) and CDC data as well as worldometer data. 

The CDC has added "Covid tracker, weekly."

Wuhan flu. The blog.  Coronavirus: statistics.     Seasonal flu: CDC.  
Covid Data Tracker Weekly Review: link here, new.   Coovid data tracker: by community, new

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The Book Page

For anyone interested in geopolitics and the "big picture" I heartily recommend Peter Zeihan. I have read his most recent book (2022). I follow Peter Zeihan over at twitter and he recently mentioned his 2016 / 2017 book on shale. He mentioned it in such a way that I don't think he was promoting that book or trying to sell it, simply to say that he had noted something as far back as the mid-20-teens and global energy was now playing out as he envisioned, and with it, the changing global politics. 

I've just started reading the book and am really, really impressed. The importance of the book is this: it validates his views and his "predictive" abilities, if that makes sense. 

Again, my 2022-summer reading program and my 2022-autumn reading program are linked.

I just added my Covid-19 library page.