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📍 Aubrac plateau · Lozère, France — June–July 2025 Vast, never-ending fields, guarded by tall volcanoes from all directions. The air is full of animal scent and the grave silence is periodically cut with the sounds of cattle bells. No, I am not in the Wild West, I am on a plateau of Massif Central in France. Parc Naturel Régional de l’Aubrac. The cowboy in me is fearless, but something strange is looming from those tall, lonely gentians and aggressive eyes of Aubrac bulls. The sun is scorching, and still something makes me shiver. ...

Can we think of the economy as something analogous to natural ecosystems? This thought emerged to my mind on a bear-observation excursion and I immediately started to explore this idea further. I believe that economics and ecology, two seemingly distinct fields, are actually very similar and can tremendously learn from each other. In this article, I will look at the most striking similarities and ideas and argue why I think both sciences study almost the same subject. I will look at properties of both systems and analyse them from top-down, looking at the macro-level first, then diving into what drives the change in both fields and then focusing on the micro-level. ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced an avalanche of books — memoirs, histories, analyses — many of them rushed and shallow. These five (or six, as you will see) are not. Whether you want to understand how the war feels from the inside, how Russia arrived at this point, or how information itself became a weapon, this list covers all three angles without repeating itself. I read all of them in the past two years and each one left a mark. ...