Light in Complexity: 2025 Christmas Editor's Note
Thinking inside. Transition outside. Together glow. Terawatt Times Transmits.
At this turning point of complexity, we pause. We reflect. We feel grateful for those working through its layers.
This year, we mapped a landscape of contradictions: Impossibility, Irreversibility Trap and The Deadlock. But these are not isolated problems. They are signals of the same system. Our work is to reveal the structures beneath them, where seemingly incompatible logics can converge, where friction can be reduced through integration, where coordination becomes possible. This is the foundation. This is what enables clarity to become action.
To the operators, founders, investors, policymakers, engineers, everyone building the climate and energy transition through all its difficulty: thank you. Your work is real. We are building frameworks to make it sharper, clearer, more coordinated.
Cognitive clarity is not optimism. It is power.
In 2026, as the transition accelerates, we continue this work. Not because it is easy. Because complexity demands it. Because the people in this work deserve tools that amplify their expertise.
We carry this forward with you.
Merry Christmas 2025. The work continues.
— Alex Yang Liu, Executive Editor, Terawatt Times
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Alex is the founder of the Terawatt Times Institute, developing cognitive-structural frameworks for AI, energy transitions, and societal change. His work examines how emerging technologies reshape political behavior and civilizational stability.
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