We’ll take any excuse to get people into the office, and a coffee happy hour turned out to be a pretty good one. No agenda, no slides, just folks in the business catching up and meeting someone new. Honestly, that’s most of the reason we built this place.

why Finland halted Google data centers over cleared forest, and why permitting is now as big a bottleneck as power, pushing builders behind the meter #datacenters #google #ai

Got an offer on your minerals? Whitney Wickes of Cloud Peak Minerals shows how buyers built it, live next Thursday, October 29 at 10 AM CT.

why Zelenskyy keeps hitting Russian refineries after Trump told him to stop, and how diesel became his leverage before the US midterms #diesel #ukraine #russia

Most of the useful conversations in this business happen over coffee before the first meeting. Coffee hour at Collide HQ, October 22, 8 to 10 a.m. Breakfast is on us. It’s open to members, and joining is free.

Chuck Yates can still tell you the score of a match he lost at 13. The man who beat him has no memory of it. This week’s Old Man Coffee starts there, picks up two phone calls from his daughter’s first semester, and ends up a long way from tennis.

how one social media report on a Pakistani Iran proposal moved crude, and why Dan Pickering compared it to reading chicken entrails #oilprices #crudeoil #iran @pickeringenergy

How does your team handle spare parts? It ties into tomorrow’s Power Hour on deepwater drilling, where a $20K part stuck in customs can turn into a $15M problem.