Strategy – The Suburban Redoubt

Disunion, Union, Preachers and Doers

A Gray Man — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:03:41 +0000

Only dead fish follow the stream -old Scandinavian expresion It has been a while since my last post but I have been pretty distracted, I must admit. In this post I focus on some psychological lessons I have learned watching the past couple of weeks. This are lessons I already knew but the past few …

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Decoupling

A Gray Man — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:58:14 +0000

These articles and others like them that have been making the rounds have been spinning around my head in recent weeks: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/cheap-manufacturing-be-damned-sentiment-builds-for-moving-u-s-companies-out-of-china In short, decoupling basically means in practice a shift away from international supply chains. These chains emerged in part because outsourcing to foreign nations has some advantages: cost savings, technology transfer, etc. But …

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Notes on a bug in: week 3

A Gray Man — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:47:57 +0000

So mi casa just completed three weeks of near total bug in. In the absence of a therapeutic emerging that transforms everything (its pretty clear at this point that it would have to cut way into the case fatality rate and, more generally, the ventilator use rate) it looks like this might be the situation …

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Bugging out is generally a bad idea

A Gray Man — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:14:25 +0000

“We’re driving a U-Haul out to the Hamptons. Which means I’ll probably be the first to die” So it turns out that covid-19 is messing with the Spring Break plans of our betters and instead they are doing what any sensible prepper would do in an emergency like this: bug out out to the Hamptons. …

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