#149 - DOOMBERG

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 9:01 a.m.

Doomberg is the pseudonymous group behind the #1 Finance Newsletter on Substack, Doomberg. The team\u2019s background is in heavy industry, private equity, and the hard sciences. Read Doomberg at doomberg.substack.com.

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[0:16] - How Doomberg reinvented itself from a group of consultants to produce the #1 Finance Newsletter on Substack

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[4:28] - Leaving a steady and reliable career to pursue creative and entrepreneurial interests

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[9:15] - Replacing meetings with complete asynchronous communications, and polyphasic sleeping to write at 3am

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[15:11] - Why Doomberg chooses to remain pseudonymous

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[18:24] - Doom scrolling and defensive pessimism

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[21:33] - Public misunderstandings relating to energy

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[26:01] - Doomberg\u2019s opinion on the optimal energy strategy

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[32:31] - Countering arguments against nuclear energy development

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[36:31] - Countries that most successfully embracing nuclear energy

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[38:57] - The politics around nuclear energy in The United States

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[42:41] - Doomberg\u2019s perspective on the European energy crisis

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[47:30] - Why Doomberg predicts fossil fuel consumption will be greater in 2040 than it is today

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[51:28] - How energy proliferation can advance the development of humanity

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