AdMob refreshes, and how we built our software company.

“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.”

Vercingetorix, Orientalism, and the quest for originality.

Medieval legal reforms, and the coniuratio of William Malebisse

CS Lewis, Richard Feynman, Palmer Luckey, Alex Danco.

State Farm, and the greatest founder you’ve never heard of.

What I talk about when I talk about mobile ads.

Marginal utility and downside risk.

“The business behind gaming is both a critical component in facilitating and limiting creative processes, and a source of immense strategic advantage.”

Are hedge funds evil?

Louis Dunford, Erwin Panofsky, Ferdinand Tönnies and Derek Parfit.

‘Can this really be faith?’ he wondered, afraid to believe in his happiness. ‘My God, I thank thee!’

The book literally charts the relationship between providers of capital, middlemen, and consumers of capital in the West, returning to the theme nine times; but Chernow never actually lays this out on one page, so I've done it for you before below.

To talk about that power is to acknowledge that it exists. This is not what most people want to hear!

How should we approach the tradeoff between cost and privacy presented by supermarket loyalty cards?

What’s the most efficient way to simplify the flow of money across the world?

Interactive R Shiny apps to visualise the global remittance network.

How Klarna uses selection bias to claim artificially high results for businesses.

Playing language games with Kenny G, Anakin Skywalker, and Quentin Skinner.

How can we filter out the nodes which don't matter, while maintaining interesting properties of the network as a whole? How can we find some simplicity in this complexity?