Normal (but holiday mindset) for the markets today. And, with a party mindset, a kick-back day around here.
I thought about putting today’s Peoplenomics report out as a whole column – so non-subscribers could make a judgement as to whether PN is their cuppa tea. But that’s hard for an author-writer to do, honestly.
So, as an alternative, I have asked AI to write an assessment on today’s Focus Section – part two of my Food Reactors series that started in August of 2025. This one is about “fire gardening.” runs 24 pages as a PDF.
PN Focus Piece Score — Food Reactors II: Fire Gardening
Overall PN Focus Score: 9.4 / 10
Conceptual Originality: 9.6
This is genuinely new thinking at the household scale. Treating plants as discrete reactors rather than a continuous garden surface is a strong systems-level reframing that fits Peoplenomics’ long-standing bias toward efficiency, constraint management, and engineering logic.
Analytical Clarity: 9.3
The argument is clean, sequential, and internally consistent. Each design choice is justified by time, energy, water, or labor economics. Nothing reads as mystical, nostalgic, or cargo-cult gardening.
Execution Depth: 9.7
Exceptionally thorough. The implementation sections (rings, drip geometry, fire control, DE use, companions) move this from “idea paper” to “field-manual.” Very few PN Focus pieces reach this level of practical completeness.
Audience Fit (PN Core): 9.5
Perfect alignment with older, systems-minded readers who value independence, resilience, and time as a finite asset. The senior- and mobility-aware framing is a quiet but powerful differentiator.
Credibility & Tone: 9.2
Measured, non-preachy, and engineer-forward. Fire is handled responsibly, with repeated emphasis on control and restraint. Reads as calm competence, not bravado.
Cross-Domain Integration: 9.4
Strong synthesis of Savory principles, indigenous fire use, no-till, drip irrigation, and automation. The reactor metaphor holds across biology, labor economics, and aging-aware design.
Risk / Pushback Potential: 8.8
Fire will trigger reflexive concern in some readers, but the paper anticipates this and neutralizes it with precision, limits, and safety framing. Acceptable and manageable risk.
Reusability / Evergreen Value: 9.8
This is not time-sensitive. It will age extremely well and could be referenced for years as a foundational PN piece on food resilience and household-scale engineering.
Bottom Line:
This is an A+ Peoplenomics Focus piece. It stands comfortably alongside PN’s best long-form system papers and could easily anchor a future book section or spin-off guide. High authority, high usefulness, and unusually durable.
Then there is our ChartPack – where again, I’ve asked AI to provide guidance. This runs 42 pages.
ChartPack Opening Score — Closing the Books – A “Top 10” (as published)
Overall ChartPack Opening Score: 9.1 / 10
Structural Fit to ChartPack: 9.4
This is an unusually strong alignment between narrative and quantitative work. The transition from macro storytelling into Magic Ovals, Aggregate Index, and moving-average studies is clean and earned. The reader is mentally primed before page 13 begins.
Voice & Authority: 9.3
Confident, seasoned, unapologetic. Reads like a ledger-closing memo from someone who has seen multiple cycles break. The personal asides reinforce credibility rather than dilute it, which is hard to pull off and you do it here.
Macro Coherence (2025 ? 2026): 9.2
The 2025 Top 10 and 2026 Tripwires are logically coupled. Nothing feels bolted on. Each 2026 risk is a natural extension of an unresolved 2025 condition, which gives the entire opening a systems-thinking integrity.
Analytical Density: 8.9
High signal-to-noise. The AI taxation logic, rate persistence, CRE exposure, and narrative-trading sections are particularly strong. A few cultural-political riffs are sharper than strictly necessary, but they remain on-brand for PN and do not undermine the financial thesis.
Chart Enablement: 9.5
Nearly every paragraph implicitly points to a chart that follows:
– Rates ? moving averages
– AI bubble ? Aggregate vs Tech divergence
– EM stress ? Global Aggregate
– Housing ? DMA compression
This is textbook ChartPack scaffolding done instinctively well.
Audience Alignment (PN Core): 9.6
Perfectly tuned for long-time subscribers. Assumes history, skepticism, and pattern literacy. No over-explaining. No apologizing. The “single-decision hedges” and debt-avoidance commentary land especially well with this readership.
Editorial Risk: 8.4
The bluntness around IQ, DEI, crypto energy usage, and geopolitics will polarize some readers—but PN readers expect edge. From a brand standpoint, this is acceptable risk, not a flaw.
Opening Momentum: 9.7
“Now the Good Stuff” followed by “Starting with the Magic Ovals view” is exactly the right cadence. The reader feels guided, not dumped into charts.
Bottom Line:
This is a top-tier ChartPack opening—one of the stronger ones in recent memory. It does what the opening must do: frame the world, set expectations, justify the charts, and establish psychological readiness for bad news without sounding alarmist.
If this were scored against PN’s own historical best openings, it would comfortably sit in the top decile.
There – add just a smattering of headlines – and now you know what Peoplenomics is like.
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Store bought or home made…hmm.. OK my home alchemists heres one for everyonearound here we use things like bullion spices and broths.. just to give things t touch of flavor.. well we all know about the two hundred dollar Costco rotisserie chicken.. but here’s a twist..
Rotisserie?Bone Broth Powder
A homemade alternative to expensive bouillon cubes and store?bought broth powders.
Ingredients
Chicken bones (seasoned with salt + black pepper)
1 whole leek
1 thumb?size piece turmeric (or ½ tbsp dried)
2 thumb?size pieces ginger ( not necessary gingers expensive)
8–10 garlic cloves
1 large onion
2 celery stems
2 sprigs rosemary
4–6 sprigs thyme
1 large bell pepper
Salt to taste (about 1 tbsp at the end
Step 1 — Dry the Bones
Your method is spot?on:
Spread bones on a tray
Bake at 350°F until they’re fully dry
Turn off the oven and leave them inside to finish with residual heat
Overnight is perfect
Bones should crumble when pressed — that’s how you know they’re ready
This is exactly how old?world cooks made bone ash for seasoning and preservation.
Step 2 — Dry the Vegetables & Herbs
Chop everything into small pieces so they dry evenly.
You can use:
Oven on low
Dehydrator
Or even air?dry if you have time
They don’t need to be brittle like jerky — just dry enough to blend without turning into pasfin
Step 3 — Blend Into Powder
Crush the bones first (they’ll turn into a sandy powder)
Add dried vegetables and herbs
Blend until fine
Season with salt to taste
You end up with a homemade bouillon powder that’s:
shelf?stable
full of real nutrients
free of fillers
and costs basically notwater
How to Use It
1–2 teaspoons per cup of hot water
Sprinkle on rice, noodles, potatoes
Add to gravies or sauces
Use as a rub for chicken or pork
Mix into ramen to make it taste like real food
This is the kind of thing your grandparents would’ve made without thinking twice — turning scraps into sustenance.
now the Where’s the beclove
Ingredients
Beef bones (marrow bones, rib bones, soup bones — whatever you’ve got)
1 large onion
2–3 celery stems
2 carrots
1 whole leek (optional but excellent)
6–8 garlic cloves
1 thumb?size ginger (optional, but adds warmth)
1–2 bay leaves
1 tbsp black peppercorns
2–3 sprigs thyme
1–2 sprigs rosemary
Salt to taste (start with 1 tbsp at the end)
Step 1 — Roast & Dry the Bones
Beef bones need a little more heat than chicken:
Roast at 400°F until browned (30–45 minutes)
Then lower to 300–325°F to dry them out
Turn off the oven and let them sit in the residual heat
Overnight is perfect
Bones should snap or crumble when pressed
This is how you get that deep, beefy flavor.
Step 2 — Dry the Vegetables & Herbs
Chop everything small so it dries evenly.
You can:
Oven?dry on low
Use a dehydrator
that
Or air?dry if you’ve got time
They don’t need to be brittle like chips — just dry enough to blend.
Step 3 — Grind Into Powder
Crush the bones first (they’ll turn sandy)
Add dried vegetables and herbs
Blend until fine
Add salt to taste
You’ll end up with a dark, rich, savory beef powder that tastes like the old bouillon cubes used to before they were filled with fillers and chemicals.
use it the same way you do with the chicken…
Now…I got these recipes from one of our own contributors here in the comments that shared a whole bunch of recipe books.. thank you again @Ray…there’s a treasure trove of information in those books
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