Glad you mentioned the Vocational training bit at the end. 100% agree with you that University training has got off track and even beyond spending a lot of time and effort on stuff which is not relevant, is preventing kids who would be great in certain roles from getting there. So many degrees (More specifically in Canada but applies other places) require such high marks or are costly, that many can't make it. So we end up with a lot of people who are over academically trained but not particularly qualified to be good practitioners in their chosen profession. My knowledge is more around Engineers, Nurses, Doctors etc. On Vocational training, beyond the social status aspect of it, more hybrid degrees would be great, so that those choosing more 'blue collar' professions have the skills to progress through their careers.
From your recent trip to the ME and net zero. I still see interviews with NOC leaders talking about net zero by whenever. From your conversations, is this just what their public voices say, or have they not yet figured out that there is no real value spending large sums to go down that path? On a second item. I'm really interested about using local power to generate AI tokens and how an OPEC member can effectively exceed their quota by selling tokens rather than oil. They oil or gas to token efficiency can be very low if you cost of the oil or gas is cheap. And in the case of the oil, you have constraints to monetization. Quotas are really shipping limits, not production limits. So you can produce more oil, convert it to tokens, and have a new money stream from your hydrocarbons. Going to be fun to watch this evolve!
Glad you mentioned the Vocational training bit at the end. 100% agree with you that University training has got off track and even beyond spending a lot of time and effort on stuff which is not relevant, is preventing kids who would be great in certain roles from getting there. So many degrees (More specifically in Canada but applies other places) require such high marks or are costly, that many can't make it. So we end up with a lot of people who are over academically trained but not particularly qualified to be good practitioners in their chosen profession. My knowledge is more around Engineers, Nurses, Doctors etc. On Vocational training, beyond the social status aspect of it, more hybrid degrees would be great, so that those choosing more 'blue collar' professions have the skills to progress through their careers.
From your recent trip to the ME and net zero. I still see interviews with NOC leaders talking about net zero by whenever. From your conversations, is this just what their public voices say, or have they not yet figured out that there is no real value spending large sums to go down that path? On a second item. I'm really interested about using local power to generate AI tokens and how an OPEC member can effectively exceed their quota by selling tokens rather than oil. They oil or gas to token efficiency can be very low if you cost of the oil or gas is cheap. And in the case of the oil, you have constraints to monetization. Quotas are really shipping limits, not production limits. So you can produce more oil, convert it to tokens, and have a new money stream from your hydrocarbons. Going to be fun to watch this evolve!