CSaaS
Startups that create new products for their clients.
Federal
“You mean that if I ship a package from Milwaukee to Chicago, it has to go through Memphis?”
“Look, sir, if you don't tell your customer, we won't. It just will be there by noon tomorrow. Will that work?”
mach
“Man was created a rebel; surely rebels cannot be happy, can they?”
Cyber Cat
What in the world is most mispriced?
Kolya the Precocious
“When I'm pleased about something, I get carried away and start talking all kinds of nonsense.”
Novels, Lookup Tables, and Rice Pudding
“'Forty centuries look down upon you' was a truer picture of the mind of the Revolution than the military rhetorician knew or cared to know.”
The Importance of Being Earnest
“The reconciliation of the infinitesimally small and the infinitely large. It is this secret that intrigued the Italians, and that always eluded them.”
Cannibals, Brokers, and Sponsors
How US commercial insurance is broked.
Quizbook
Quizbook is not about answering questions.
Quizbook is politics.
Coriolanus, Moses, and the Polygamist
"You can't hold it against a man for possessing and being possessed by all the component and conflicting parts of being a genius. It's just that sometimes it is difficult for mortals to live with.”
Chip Futures
Enron tried to financialise memory.
Why didn’t they succeed?
On Talent
“It is generally ill-advised to say 'never' and I'm pleased for you that your grafting has got you to where you wanted to be.”
The Megazord; or, the Tony Blair Institute
“I will never tell Neymar what to do in a certain close space, because he will find a solution I never dreamed of.”
On Capturing The Value You Create
Boris Johnson once said that his policy on cake was pro having it and pro eating it; some businesses get to do this.
On Planning
“Had he thought out his ideas beforehand, he could not have been so natural in his behaviour.”
Bundling and Unbundling Insurance
A (the?) main move in insurance goes like this:
Doin’ This
Luke Combs, Omar Baba, and the quest for authenticity.
Historiography and Reality Distortion
“You need a non-zero probability that you can rearrange the world around your will.”
How We Made All The Money
AdMob refreshes, and how we built our software company.
Insurance Broking - the War for Talent
“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”