The biggest thing that keeps me up at night right now is still China and Taiwan. I’m not sure if anyone has looked at the price of RAM lately, but it’s astronomical.

American manufacturers are only making RAM for AI data centers now, so a war in Taiwan could cripple the global chip industry.

*Shawn* Ryan, which I post because it WAS a very good interview, and I want people to find it when they're searching for it on YT. The huge and extremely important takeaway from it for me was to ask "who is benefiting from turning us against each other?" Over 5 hours, completely worth it.

This also has implications for bills paid by mail. Large potentially expensive implications.

These are tough jobs meant for serious, experienced professionals…not whiny podcasters who like to cosplay law enforcement.