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The Honest Sorcerer
Personal blog · thehonestsorcerer.substack.comeconomicsculture
The Honest Sorcerer is a personal blog at thehonestsorcerer.substack.com about economics and culture. Since 2025, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Running on Empty: Copper”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Substack essays on the framework behind the author's symbolic, embodied practice, and in-depth pieces on the hidden copper supply world. Commenters point to them as explanatory deep dives.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A critic of modern times - offering ideas for honest contemplation. Also on Medium: https://medium.com/@thehonestsorcerer.
Most-linked posts?
- Running on Empty: Copper2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-08
- The End of Reason2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-21
- The Two Achilles Heels of Complex Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-27
- The AI Takeover Has Arrived2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-30
What Hacker News says?
I just can't get that exuberant when I also read things like this [1]. [1] - https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-tale-of-two-ene...
Comment linking /p/the-tale-of-two-energy-transitions?publication_id=1498475&post_id=167504563&isFreemail=true&r=cyze3&triedRedirect=true
on “Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system”Submitted Running on Empty: Copper as a story · 83 points
HN discussionThis turned up the other day and explains the overarching framework of how my practice (symbolic, embodied) fits into other approaches to facing the world https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-end-of-reason and i think communicates the sense of urgency in terms of the current crises such as the crisis of object relations, crisis of energy and the environment, crisis of political legitimacy, etc.
Comment linking /p/the-end-of-reason
on “Anatomy of US inequality”Submitted Are We Sleepwalking into a Diesel Shortage? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAnd this is the predicament that people seem to either not understand or completely (wilfully?) ignore. As is said, problems have solutions; predicaments have outcomes. I think this [0] is worth a read (among many other similar analyses) [0] https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-tale-of-two-ene...
Comment linking /p/the-tale-of-two-energy-transitions
on “What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?”Submitted Averting Collapse Is No Longer Profitable as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA somewhat related discussion on this topic [1]. [1] - https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-oil-price-myste...
Comment linking /p/the-oil-price-mystery
on “US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again”Submitted The AI Takeover Has Arrived as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAdditions to that list: https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-co... - the hidden world of copper supply https://www.orcasciences.com/articles/there-has-to-be-a-bett... - thoughts on improving the current titanium production process
Comment linking /p/running-on-empty-copper
on “Ask HN: Favorite In-Depth Deep Dives”Submitted The Two Achilles Heels of Complex Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Persian Polycrisis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Reason as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Two Achilles Heels of Complex Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Red Giant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coal: The Next Chokepoint as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Takeover Has Arrived as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silver: A story of converging supply crises as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond the Mordor Economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From mineral resources to oil and nuclear: the twilight of the Industrial Age as a story · 1 points
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