Coordinated with Fredrik
Episodes
The Grid's TCP/IP Moment
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1962, a researcher at the RAND Corporation named Paul Baran looked at AT&T’s telephone network and saw something that the people running it could...
The Mess Is the Moat
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded a podcast episode this week that I’ve been turning over in my head for months. It’s about where Sourceful is right now, what we’ve bu...
The Thesis
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Before we begin, I want to be upfront about something.The voice in this episode is mine, but it’s AI-generated.I cloned my voice using ElevenLabs, a...
The Grid’s Missing Router: Why Software, Not Hardware, Will Save the Energy Transition
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Picture a spectacularly beautiful, cloudless spring day in California. Millions of solar panels across the state are operating at peak efficiency, chu...
071 - Measure What Matters
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s fall 1999. A venture capitalist named John Doerr walks into a cramped office in Mountain View — thirty employees gathered around a ping-pong ...
070- Boil the Ocean
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2026, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan published a short essay arguing that “don’t boil the ocean” — the most common piece of startup ad...
069 - Building the Machine
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is different. Instead of talking about the grid, energy markets, or coordination protocols, I’m talking about this podcast — how it’...
NATS as the Nervous System of the Grid
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of Coordinated with Fredrik, we went deep — not at the strategy layer, not at the founder layer, but at the socket level.Thi...
Slaying the Broken Charger Dragon
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You know the feeling.You’re low on range. The map says there’s a charger around the corner. You pull up — relief. And then… black screen. Or “...
Special Deep Dive for David: OCPP Without the Marketing Fluff
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t for a broad audience.It wasn’t for policymakers or the energy-curious.It was built for one specific person: David — a firmware enginee...
The Internet Was Born in Panic
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The textbook version of how the internet came to be is clean. A few smart people in California connected some computers, email happened, and then we g...
The $8.8 Trillion Foundation Nobody Owns
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There is a number that keeps rattling around in my head since recording this episode: $8.8 trillion. That is the demand-side value of open source soft...
Europe’s Grid Plumbing Crisis
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a strange paradox at the heart of Europe’s energy transition.On paper, 2025 looks like a victory lap. Renewables generated nearly half of ...
The Battery Is the Bucket
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On February 18th, 1745, in Como, Italy, a child was born who would quietly alter the trajectory of civilization.Two centuries later, the unit of elect...
The Operating System of Execution
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Coordinated with FredrikThere is a fundamental tension at the heart of every ambitious company.On one side: the blue-sky vision.On the other: the grit...
Boiling the Ocean: Why Incremental Thinking Is Now the Most Dangerous Strategy
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There is a phrase that has quietly governed modern management culture for decades:“Don’t boil the ocean.”It’s the sentence that appears whenev...
Wire the Planet or Wire the Solar System?
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Coordinated with Fredrik — Episode RecapOn January 30, 2026, SpaceX filed what looked like the most boring piece of regulatory paperwork imaginable....
The Spiral: Why the Most Important Intellectual War of Our Time Is Between People Who See Walls and People Who See Launchpads
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In October 1990, a Stanford biologist sat at his desk and wrote a check for $576.07. He put it in an envelope. He addressed it to an economist at the ...
The Founder Bottleneck — Surviving the Jump to 10 People
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There is a moment in every startup’s life where growth stops feeling like progress.You hired smart people.You raised money.You shipped something tha...
The Meter Is the Membrane
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most engineering failures don’t come from bad algorithms or insufficient data.They come from something much more basic:We didn’t define the system...
The Invisible Grid: How Messaging Systems Became the Nervous System of Modern Infrastructure
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode SummaryWe tend to think about infrastructure in physical terms: wires, pylons, transformers, steel and copper. But modern systems—especially...
From 95% to 99%: The Stoic Executive’s Guide to Supplement ROI
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most conversations about supplements are useless.They start too early, aim too low, and ask the wrong question.This is not a beginner’s guide. This ...
The Efficiency Trap: Why Using Less Never Works
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been thinking about this paradox since my PhD days. Back then I was trying to make ships more fuel efficient, believing it would reduce emissio...
Thinking Out Loud in the Age of Agentic Coding
24 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I share a candid, thinking-out-loud reflection on how fast agentic coding is evolving—and what that speed means if you’re buildin...
A Live, Unscripted Experiment and Thoughts on the Agentic Era
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time, this isn’t AI-generated or scripted — it’s a live, unscripted monologue recorded early in the morning, just before heading t...
Inside a One-Month Leadership Reckoning at the Edge of the Agentic Era
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A War Room, Not a HolidayThis episode of Coordinated doesn’t begin with a product launch or a funding announcement. It begins in silence.December 26...
When Cryptography Is Perfect but Humans Aren’t
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The most uncomfortable truth in crypto is not that the technology fails. It’s that it works exactly as designed—right up to the moment a human tou...
Skin in the Game: Why Leadership Without Consequence Is Structurally Fraudulent
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Modern leadership discourse is saturated with abstractions: vision, values, strategy, alignment. These words are cheap. They float easily above realit...
The Vigilant Mind Playbook — how to stay cognitively sovereign in an AI-saturated company
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a quiet failure mode creeping into modern leadership: you look faster and smarter because AI outputs are clean and confident, but your actua...
Welcome to the Coordination Century - Breakpoint Abu Dhabi Briefing
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For roughly a hundred years, power meant scale. Who could drill the most oil, burn the most coal, build the biggest power plant. The 20th century rewa...
The Art of Industrial Coordination: Why We Can’t Quit Modbus
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s deep dive on Coordinated with Fredrik, we tackled the $222 billion elephant in the room. That is the estimated amount manufacturers s...
The Illusion of Intelligence: Why Statistical AI Will Break Long Before the Grid Does
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a dangerous seduction in the frontier of AI right now. Models grow bigger; their outputs shimmer with coherence; their corporate parents bra...
The Grand Database Odyssey: From Clay Tablets to Cryptographic Truth
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The history of how humanity manages data is not just a technological timeline; it is fundamentally a story about our changing relationship with time a...
From Giant stones to digital trust architechtures
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the vast history of human value, from ancient ledgers to global finance, few concepts are as fundamental, or as fragile, as trust. Our journey to s...
Is Our Reality Just a High-Fidelity Digital Illusion?
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to “Coordinated with Fredrik.” This week, we’re tackling an idea that forces us to question everything: the simulation hypothesis. ...
Cutting Through the Fog: The Brutal Economics and Hidden Psychology Driving Your VC
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to “Coordinated with Fredrik.” We often talk about the strategies founders need to deploy to win funding, but today, we are turning the ta...
The Capitalist Case for Progress, Prosperity, and Fixing the Planet
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The material provided centers on Johan Norberg’s arguments presented in his book, The Capitalist Manifesto, which serves as a defense of global capi...
“The Unique Seed” – A Roadmap for Gustav and Louise
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For those of you who caught the special episode of “Coordinated with Fredrik,” you know this one was personal. My wife Madeleine and I, both havin...
Silicon Valhalla
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sweden, a high-tax welfare state with a population of only 10.5 million people, has managed to become a global startup superpower known as “Silicon ...
Why Asymmetry Kills: The Crucial Lens of Skin in the Game
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The core concept presented in Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is that true effectiveness, fairness, and ac...
The Strategic CEO’s Blueprint
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast episode made on the transcript and insights from Huberman podcast. Here is the full episode: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/robert-gree...
The Forecasting Paradox
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we dive into a story that has defined data science for forty years: the Forecasting Paradox. It’s the counterintuitive empirical observation ...
The Clean Energy Hidden Kill Switch
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(A post coordinated with Fredrik)We often celebrate solar farms and massive Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) as the heroes of the clean energy tr...
The Ultimate Performance Hack
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the high-stakes arena of the modern tech industry, performance is the only currency that matters. For decades, the culture of Silicon Valley was fa...
The Efficiency Trap: Why Making Things Better Can Make Us Consume More
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sound of the modern world is a hum of paradoxes. It’s the constant ping of notifications on your phone, a tool designed to streamline life that ...
The Anatomy of Financial Disaster. FTX Crash.
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the blog, coordinating with Fredrik and this week’s episode! Today, we’re dissecting two financial catastrophes separated by fifte...
From the Monk’s Prayer Bell to the CEO’s Alarm
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The day for the modern “master of the universe” often begins in darkness, with an alarm displaying 4:30 AM. Before sunrise, a disciplined sequence...
The Founder’s Stoic Operating System
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Startup founders navigate high-stress environments characterized by radical uncertainty, risk, and constant change. Success in this volatile landscape...
Full Speed Ahead: Understanding Effective Accelerationism (e/acc)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, listeners! In the past few years, a powerful, and often jarring, ideology has risen from the depths of online forums straight into the boardroo...
The Shock Absorber Grid
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The global energy transition—marked by the influx of variable renewable energy (VRE) like wind and solar—has fundamentally inverted the way we man...
The $60 Million Mistake
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The European energy market is facing a technological and economic reckoning, exemplified by the crisis in OEM API pricing. Distributed Energy Resource...
The Grid is Fighting Back
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The modern electrical grid is a cornerstone of society, but it was built on a simple premise: power flows one way, like a river, from large, centraliz...
The Rise of Permissionless Energy
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Deep Dive, the hosts unpack a quiet revolution happening in energy—the emergence of permissionless distributed energy resourc...
Permissionless Power: Why Plug-and-Play Energy Systems Are Waiting for No One
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode dives into a tectonic shift in how people interact with electricity — from centralized, permission-heavy systems to decentralized, cons...
The Solar Pill: Embracing Abundance and the True Limits of Energy
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We often talk about energy in terms of quantity—barrels of oil, cubic feet of gas, or kilowatt-hours of electricity. But according to advanced therm...
Mega Park Gridlock
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Great Energy Unbundling, where we explore the epic battle—and potential symbiosis—between two distinct energy storage architectures...
The Grid Revolution: How Your Electric Vehicle Became the Ultimate Power Plant
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready to see your electric vehicle (EV) not just as transportation, but as a crucial, mobile energy storage unit. This episode dives into the emer...
Sourceful Energy Solana Podcast Prep
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sourceful Energy’s presentation focuses on solving the energy crisis not through scarcity and efficiency, but through abundance and coordination. Th...
The Coordination Century: Energy Sovereignty and Network Effects
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Coordination Century, a deep dive into the radical paradigm shift transforming global energy. For 100 years, power was concentrated bec...
The Coordination Century
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 20th century was defined by generation—those who produced energy at scale ruled the world. But that era is over. Generation is solved: solar is ...
Here Comes the Sun Deep Dive
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast DescriptionFor decades, Bill McKibben has chronicled the climate crisis with a trademark “dark realism”. But now, he sees a path forward, ...
SWEDISH: Onboarding till student Sourceful
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
En podd om framtidens energi – där vi pratar om hur solceller, batterier och elbilar kan bli en del av lösningen istället för problemet. Vi utfo...
The Hidden Engine of Loyalty: How Giants Built Empires on Habit, Status, and Trust
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The provided sources collectively explore the comprehensive history, psychological underpinnings, and strategic implementation of customer loyalty pro...
DePIN Deepdive: Intrinsic Value or Speculative Illusion?
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast Description: "Welcome to DePIN Deepdive, the podcast unraveling Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks. In this episode, we tackle the...
Debate - The Harsh Reality of DePIN Tokens
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
These sources primarily examine Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs) and the intrinsic value of their associated tokens, offering b...
Solmaxxing on DER Task Force transcript
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode, featuring Jesse Peltan alongside hosts James McGinniss, Colleen, and Duncan Campbell, focuses on the future of energy, primarily...
Residential Peak Demand Charges: A Global Overview
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The provided texts offer a comprehensive overview of the global shift towards residential demand charges in electricity billing, moving beyond traditi...
Electric Vehicles and V2G: A Global Outlook (2025–2030)
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The provided text discusses the rapid global adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), highlighting Sweden and other Nordic countries as leaders in this tr...
Artificial Sweeteners: Brain Health and Cognitive Decline
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The provided sources primarily discuss the potential link between artificial sweeteners and cognitive decline, particularly in the context of a new Br...
The Great Green Heist
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Generated by Grok and NotebookLMIn our latest podcast episode, "The Great Green Heist: Rowan Energy's Scam-tastic Solar Saga," retired comedians Chuck...
The Rise and Fall of Rowan Energy
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All is written and researched by By ChatGPT and podcast generated by Google NotebookLMA Vision of Green Energy Meets BlockchainIn 2018, David Duckwort...