connellyqApr 18, 20216 min readBreaking Through with Bill GatesBill Gates needs no introduction, but his book deserves further inspection. At the beginning of his book, Bill Gates makes one point...
connellyqJan 31, 20213 min readEnergy Excerpts from "Capitalism in America""J.P. Morgan used his unique position to shape American capitalism in its glory days. This sometimes meant creating companies from...
connellyqJan 31, 20212 min readEdison's Prescient Pre-Science"The dependence of the country on electrical current for its life and health is itself a monument to Mr. Edison's genius." President...
connellyqAug 12, 20203 min readEnlightening the ApocalypseMichael Shellenberger may have inverted the title of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now for Apocalypse Never, but their aims are...
connellyqMay 16, 20201 min readThe Best Books on Energyhttps://fivebooks.com/reader-list/the-best-books-on-energy-econpwr/
connellyqApr 27, 20203 min read"A Question of Power" “Human history can be divided into two epochs, the Electric Age, and everything that came before it.” At least according to A Question of...
connellyqOct 22, 20192 min readThe War on Growth?“Growth,” we are told, “attracts adjectives.” Chief among them are ‘anemic’ and ‘disappointing’ on the low-end, and ‘explosive’ and...
connellyqJun 4, 20193 min read"Power Trip: The Story of Energy"A Nobel prize-winning chemist once came up with a list of the top 10 problems facing humanity. In it, he prioritized energy as the number...
connellyqJul 2, 20183 min readEnergy TransitionsDaniel Kahneman, a Nobel laureate in Economics, wrote a bestseller called “Thinking, Fast & Slow.” The book describes System 1 thinking,...
connellyqJul 2, 20183 min readReviewing “Energy: A Human History,”In a recent interview with TIME, Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, made an appeal to open-mindedness:...