#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’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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