The future of this blog.

I haven't written a blog post in over a year.  I had intended to do maybe one or two a week of reasonable length, but that didn't happen for a number of reasons.

Over the last year things have continued to get worse for us all in terms of geopolitical, economic and social risk.  I have grown increasingly frustrated at the confused nature of public debate around, and reporting of, the issues.  I have also come to the conclusion that lengthy posts are not what is needed.

Therefore, the intention behind this blog is to try and provide easily digestible, practically useful pointers towards understanding and responding to the problems that threaten to overwhelm us. In doing this, I hope to contribute to the mitigation of that confusion and provide the bones of both a description of where we are and how we got here on the one hand, and a path towards a better future on the other.

I have spent a lot of time over the past year thinking and reading enough that I feel I am now able to start putting some thoughts out there.  I have decided to do this in the form of a series of what I am going to call "Short Thoughts". 

To that end, each topic needs to be focused and brief.  This means that what will appear here will be the results of my study and thought rather than an academic presentation of the path to those results.  Hopefully this will provide people with a set of tools to help inform there own thinking and for those inclined to debate, a set of tools to use in those debates with family and friends and may be in a more formal context.