Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202402241536 A renewable stock constrained by a non-renewable stock

An interesting two-stock system arises when there is a renewable stock constrained by a non-renewable stock. This system differs from one-stock systems because it is constrained by its surroundings. An example of this type of system is an oil economy. The non-renewable stock of oil, its production, and its long-term availability constrains the stock of capital in the industry. Investment — a renewable source of capital — and oil extraction and sales increase the capital of the oil industry, but the non-renewable availability will eventually limit the growth of that capital to the point where no investment will happen and the industry will dry up when oil is gone.¹

Meadows, D. H., & Wright, D. (2011). Thinking in systems: A primer (Nachdr.) (pp. 60). Chelsea Green Pub. ↩