Remco van Mook has spent the better part of three decades at junctions — between engineering and operations, between technical infrastructure and capital, between legal frameworks and the businesses they constrain or enable. That career has unfolded across Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East: building and running networks, advising on transactions, leading organisations through growth and consolidation, and sitting at enough tables to understand how differently the same problem looks depending on which side of it you are on.
Interdependencies grew out of a recurring frustration. The conversations that matter most: about technology governance, financial stability, strategic competition, the architecture of digital infrastructure - they tend to happen in silos. Technologists and economists talk past each other. Lawyers and engineers rarely share a vocabulary. Policymakers legislate systems they do not fully understand, and practitioners operate inside systems whose political and financial dimensions they prefer to leave to someone else. The cost of that fragmentation is increasingly visible.
The essays here are an attempt to write across those silos. They are long-form and deliberately unhurried: closer in spirit to a well-researched magazine feature than to the typical newsletter or thread. The subject matter spans internet infrastructure and sovereignty, monetary systems and financial plumbing, geopolitical risk and the technology stack it increasingly runs on. What ties them together is a conviction that these topics are not parallel: they are the same topic, viewed from different angles.
If you have read this far, you are probably the intended audience.