My guest is Noah Healy, inventor of the Coordinated Discovery Market (CDM) — a proposed structural change to how commodity markets are priced and stabilized.

Noah's patent application for CDM was initially allowed, then later reversed in an unusual move, without a clear explanation of what had changed. After years of resistance and appeals, his case has now been accepted and docketed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In this conversation, we step back and look at the larger problem:
What is structurally broken in commodity market trading that leads to price spikes, volatility, and shortages — and why are those outcomes often treated as inevitable?

We discuss:

• How current commodity markets actually work — and where they fail
• What CDM proposes to change at a system level
• Why stabilizing supply and reducing prices are often seen as incompatible — and why they may not be
• What a Supreme Court decision could mean, not just for CDM, but for innovation, patents, and market design more broadly

This episode isn't about politics or trading tips. It's about how markets are structured, who benefits from volatility, and what it takes for genuinely novel ideas to survive institutional resistance.

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America feels divided in a way that goes beyond disagreement. Disagreement is normal. What we're experiencing feels different, urgent, harder to resolve.

In this solo episode, Daniel Stih expands on his essay Division Isn't a Mystery. It's a System. Rather than arguing issues or taking sides, the episode examines the mechanics and patterns that repeatedly turn different events into polarization.

• Why division doesn't require conspiracy or bad actors
• How extreme events dominate our perceptions and choices
• The role of algorithms
• Why reacting strongly narrows, instead of expands, solutions.
• Where individual choice exists

This an attempt to slow things down enough to see how the system works and where restraint can change outcomes at the edges.

Read the full artice:
Division Isn't a Mystery. It's a System.

Lithium battery fires on airplanes are rare. When they happen, they're dangerous, disruptive, and costly. What's interesting is how we've chosen to deal with that risk.

The aviation safety strategy what to do after a device is on fire — containment bags, emergency procedures, and diversion. Those measures work. They're also fundamentally reactive.

In this episode, I offer a clean way to think about the problem. Using lithium battery fires as a case study, we'll examine:

• What actually causes lithium battery fires (thermal runaway)
• Why phone and laptop batteries fail in predictable ways
• How aircraft are trained to handle in-cabin battery fires
• Why containment isn't the same as prevention
• What an upstream, design-based safety approach could look like

This is a systems-level look at how aviation safety has historically improved — moving risk controls upstream into design standards, rather than relying on emergency response.

I walk through common objections, including:

• Don't batteries already meet safety standards?
• How could something such as this be enforced in practice?
• How do you reduce risk without unfairly burdening passengers?

If you're interested in aviation safety, engineering, or simply how complex systems fail and improve, this episode is for you.