BUZZING· 70%33m·2026-09-18·ScienceThe Real Work: Four Things We Can't Afford to Get Wrong | Frankly 159
This week, Nate zooms out from recent headlines about climbing diesel prices, a thinning U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and inflationary bond markets to ask the deeper question: what is the real work that's required of us as the systems that underpin modern life begin to buckle? He draws on decades of tracing the…
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