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Nate Hagens
Personal blog · natehagens.substack.comeconomicssciencepolitics
Nate Hagens writes The Great Simplification, a personal blog at natehagens.substack.com about economics, science and politics. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nate Hagens' Substack for his 'energy blindness' post, cited as a source on how overlooked energy is in discussions of food and fertilizer prices. Only one comment, which does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment. Click to read The Great Simplification, by Nate Hagens, a Substack pub
What Hacker News says?
It's absolutely a problem - energy blindness [1] - and it is intricately intertwined, along with much more, in the domain of geopolitics [2], something of which recently I've come to have a better and deeper understanding. [1] - https://natehagens.substack.com/p/frankly-3-energy-blindness [2] - https://zeihan.com/end-of-the-world/
Comment linking /p/frankly-3-energy-blindness
on “Soaring fertilizer prices could see millions more undernourished”Submitted The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Fragile Energy Economy as a story · 1 points
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