If you are in the market, you surf the wave.
We invite the reader to look at the big western markets through a Harare lens for a little bit, discover the parallels. And differences.
Systems have a fun way to spontaneously change.

"Where is the money?"

The answer is simple.
It's there. But it must learn again how to move with purpose.

Most people talking about supply chain ethics have never actually seen a supply chain. We aren’t saints, but we take pride in knowing the devils we deal with. A road-level note on extraction, distance, and the difference between compliance and comprehension.

This first of more analyses and insights on moving goods, people and maybe, opinions…

Energy is never just a utility bill. It is the hidden multiplier inside every economy, shaping competitiveness, cost of living, industrial resilience, and national prosperity. In this field note, DX Treatment examines why abundant nuclear baseload can drive efficiency and growth, why oil remains structurally embedded in physical civilization, and what Japan, France, and South Africa reveal about the discipline, distortions, and failures of infrastructure control.

The next question is obvious: if cheap, abundant energy expands optionality, what is the cleanest and most scalable way to produce that condition deliberately?

There’s no such thing as war;
just like there’s no such thing as trust in a government for any sensible-minded person.

In South Africa, we learned that long before the world’s headline wars ever ended up on African soil. When the world finished its glorious global conflicts in the past century, what we inherited was suspicion; a lifestyle of distrust.

War is a lifestyle in the sense that, whether it’s declared or not, struggle is the default.

The peace that Europe and America basked in for 80 years? Historically, that’s a rounding error. Conflict was the norm.

Reality.

The best participation in a war? Don’t.

Abundant cheap energy creates optionality.
The political system determines whether that optionality becomes prosperity or decay.

Taxing income is one thing. Taxing energy is something else entirely. Income tax captures value after work has been done. Heavy taxation on energy reaches further upstream. It burdens the potential for work itself: the movement of goods, the heating of materials, the cooling of data, the running of machines, the transport of components, and the operation of entire industrial chains. In that sense, poorly designed energy taxation does not merely redistribute outcomes. It can suppress productive possibility before it has had the chance to fully form.

The Start of an unsatifying story (or Saga) about electric drones, beautiful engineering, and the business model problem that still haunts UAV evangelism today.

In 2011, somewhere between misplaced confidence and very favorable Latvian tax assumptions, I founded my first company. What began as a beverage venture between the Baltics and South Africa soon gave way to something far more revealing: an obsession with Spilve Airfield in Riga, and the machinery underneath ideas. Looking back, that abandoned airfield was less a failed project than the beginning of everything that came later.

Infographics, statistics memes are the name of the game. We get it. But what about sentiment and overall reading the room.
DX_Treatment is about lived experience.