Utter Gibberish
One of the mantras I run in my head is a simple question – have I added value somewhere today?” It doesn’t have to be anything earth shattering. Even small gestures count.
When I commit something to public view, I try as much as possible to make it a positive contribution – unfortunately, at times I have to take a stick to things I consider nonsensical or misleading. Sadly, the world of finance offers many rich pickings for this.
The following appeared on my LinkedIn page yesterday, and I have to confess it is not only this year’s club house leader for the most nonsensical idiot posting I have ever come across, but it will undoubtedly be in the running for a lifetime achievement award.
The following is supposed to be a serious piece of geopolitical/economic analysis, and I offer it unedited.
They want you to believe that the loss of a single overseas shipping lane or lithography monopoly means the end of civilization.
We don’t accept their panic. We adapt the geometry. 🪨🦅The mid-March release of The Phoenix Protocol delivers the definitive engineering roadmap for navigating the era of the Cellular Citadel.
While legacy policy groups debate outdated trade agreements, the Sovereign Stack drops the exact technical blueprints for compressing your supply chains into a single, unbreakable geography.The Sovereign Counter-Measures:
▪️ Deploying the Quarter-Kelly Filter: We aggressively prune away the intellectual rot of both utopian reintegration narratives and apocalyptic doom-scrolling. We focus our infrastructure exclusively on the realistic, high-edge architectures that maintain absolute regional functionality.
▪️Anchoring to Factory Modular Nuclear: We align our energy strategies with the rapid regulatory shift validated by the NRC’s recent advanced commercial construction permits. We treat liquid-sodium cooling and modular factory deployment as essential, anti-fragile infrastructure baseline requirements.
TerraPower▪️Stitching the Silicon Fortress: We refuse to freeze because of a semiconductor trade freeze. We utilize advanced chiplet packaging and open interconnect standards to construct elite, defense-grade processors out of domestic fabs, running air-gapped models that protect our operational data.
The era of trusting fragile global grids is completely dead.
I have to stress that none of this is made up, and I had to see whether it was some sort of very late April Fool’s joke – apparently not.
So with nothing else to do, I set about trying to translate it and came up with the following –
“Globalisation is becoming less reliable. Nations and organisations should increase self-sufficiency in energy, semiconductors, manufacturing and data infrastructure. Small modular nuclear reactors and domestic chip production are potentially important technologies. Excessive optimism and excessive pessimism should both be avoided.”
That is roughly 90% of the substantive content. The remainder is a mixture of geopolitical commentary, technological speculation, venture-capital jargon, systems-engineering terminology, military language, and internet-culture rhetoric. Most of which seems to be misapplied or misunderstood.
Who said LinkedIn was not good for a laugh?
However, it did remind me of this.
