Arts — Then Do Better

Arts Blog Post Archive. Investing below that.

2024
2023
- 10 Dec 2023 Lucy Easthope: disaster recovery, risk, hope, planning, memoir, When the Dust Settles | Podcast
- 3 Nov 2023 Pen Vogler: Food history, culture, class, strawberries, sugar, industrialisation, eating habits | Podcast
- 14 Sept 2023 Joanne Limburg: autism, feminism, motherhood, grief, writing, jewishness | Podcast
- 30 Aug 2023 Fuchsia Dunlop: Chinese Cuisine, Culture, History, Philosophy, knife skills, texture and mouthfeel | Podcast
- 19 Aug 2023 Sustainability Podcast: Arts Council, Mya-Rose Craig, Ellie Harrison and Benjamin Yeoh
- 19 Jul 2023 Fergus Butler-Gallie: priesthood, frocks, scouse, faith, Liverpool, and Mummified Hearts | podcast
- 2 Jul 2023 David Edmonds: Derek Parfit, future selves, paradox, effective altruism, philosophy | Podcast
- 24 Jun 2023 ThenDoBetter Grant: Elspeth Wilson
- 23 Jun 2023 Penny Wincer, Charlotte Adorjan: caring, love and untold stories
- 5 Jun 2023 David Ruebain: disability, protest movements, law, equality, inclusion, interdependence | Podcast
- 4 Jun 2023 American Born Chinese: meta-structure, diversity
- 3 Jun 2023 Dickie Beau: Re-Member me
- 26 May 2023 Thoughts on Derek Parfit, biography by David Edmonds
- 12 May 2023 Lehman Trilogy review: gripping in places, but missing elements
- 8 May 2023 Jennifer Doleac: crime, policing, policy | Podcast
- 28 Mar 2023 Patrick House: neuroscience, understanding consciousness | Podcast
- 2 Feb 2023 Jade O'Brien: from stockbroker to teacher, being a woman in finance, schools and teaching | Podcast
- 17 Jan 2023 Kanjun Qiu: AI, metascience, institutional knowledge, trauma models, creativity and dance | Podcast
- 13 Jan 2023 ThenDoBetter Grant Winner: Fan Shen
2022
- 29 Dec 2022 Florence Evans: mud larking, art collecting, curating and dealing | Podcast
- 18 Nov 2022 Are liberal democracies feeling stuck? Tyler Cowen, Stephen Bush, David Goodhart.
- 15 Nov 2022 Michael Nielsen: metascience, how to improve science, open science | Podcast
- 8 Nov 2022 Saloni Dattani: improving science, important questions in science, open science, reforming peer review | Podcast
- 5 Nov 2022 Why host events, talent, unconference, weak social ties
- 22 Oct 2022 ThenDoBetter Grant winner: Bryan Kam
- 22 Oct 2022 Shape of Friendship
- 31 Aug 2022 Naomi Fisher: home education, unschool, agency in learning, meltdowns, child-led learning, cognitive psychology | Podcast
- 28 Aug 2022 Vanishing Asia, Kevin Kelly photos of the past looking forward
- 10 Aug 2022 Kana Chan: living in a zero waste village in rural Japan, Kamikatsu | Podcast
- 24 Jul 2022 Larry Temkin: transitivity, critiques of Effective Altruism, international aid, pluralism | Podcast
- 5 Jul 2022 David Finnigan: Making theatre, improving creativity, learning from failure, art in a time of climate | Podcast
- 16 Jun 2022 Francesca Sanderson: impact arts investing, social impact, creativity, living off-grid | Podcast
- 12 Jun 2022 A story of love, trains, circular economy with a side dash of agglomeration.
- 11 Jun 2022 Nadia Asparouhova: future of philanthropy, science funding, creator economy, family stories | Podcast
- 29 May 2022 Why is a stock price like a piece of art ?
- 20 May 2022 Reviews are weird things for theatre makers.
- 20 May 2022 Death Haiku
- 1 May 2022 My dangerous jeep ride to a lost civilisation
- 10 Apr 2022 Sophie Woolley: deaf culture, hearing culture and her creative journey
- 27 Mar 2022 Very Short Stories
- 14 Mar 2022 Stephan Guyenet on diet, obesity models, and obesity drugs
- 13 Feb 2022 To travel is to learn
- 6 Feb 2022 Congee vs COVID
- 16 Jan 2022 Why Wordle works
- 11 Jan 2022 What school taught me
- 5 Jan 2022 Stephen Unwin: theatre over the decades, what disability teaches us | Podcast
- 4 Jan 2022 How To Ask Good Questions
2021
- 4 Dec 2021 43 Things they should teach more at school
- 14 Nov 2021 Aella: escort work, home school, rationalism, circling, working in a factory, losing faith, polls and endless questions | Podcast
- 1 Nov 2021 Dan Goodley: disability, social models, technology, interdependence, on being human | Podcast
- 24 Oct 2021 Bec Hill: comedy, the right to offend, faith, arts and crafts, ADHD and best uses for duct tape, Podcast
- 22 Oct 2021 Superblue, A A Murakmai, Silent Fall | experience art
- 20 Oct 2021 Agile Comms hand book, Giles Turnbull
- 12 Oct 2021 ThenDoBetter Grant winner: Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Reclaiming the Dance
- 11 Oct 2021 Meaghan Kall, epidemiologist: COVID advice, Long COVID, vaccine waning, disability, HIV, social determinants of health, career advice
- 5 Oct 2021 Caryl Churchill: My reflection on What If If Only, death and the multiverse
- 3 Oct 2021 Clare Montagu: Running a hospice during COVID, how to die well, and being a special advisor to government | Podcast
- 1 Oct 2021 Why I don't write much on politics vs arts, music, technology
- 26 Sept 2021 Jonathan Wolff: valuing life, philosophy, disability models, society of equals, musical performance | Podcast
- 26 Sept 2021 Podcasting thoughts and why the push back on Amia Srinivasan
- 11 Sept 2021 Bot Obituary
- 25 Aug 2021 Mark Ravenhill: Theatre notes 101, writing advice, Twitter
- 22 Aug 2021 Mark Ravenhill: making theatre, curiosity, listening and rainbow stories
- 18 Aug 2021 Sally Phillips: clowning, comedy, family life, disability and faith | Podcast
- 9 Aug 2021 Worst Attraction in London? I defend the Mound.
- 18 Jul 2021 Tassos Stevens on making theatre, play and creative processes | Podcast
- 18 Jul 2021 Reflections on story and Lee Simpson
- 1 Jul 2021 How I found my jingle. A story of coding, music synth and Plinky.
- 29 Jun 2021 Lee Simpson on improvisation, story telling and what improv tells us about being human | Podcast
- 23 Jun 2021 Leopold Aschenbrenner on existential risk, German Culture, Valedictorian efficiency | Podcast
- 20 Jun 2021 C Thi Nguyen on games philosophy, agency, real world gamification | Podcast
- 9 Jun 2021 ThenDoBetter Grant winner: David Blanc
- 21 May 2021 Anton Howes on innovation history, the improving mindset, and progress studies | Podcast
- 13 May 2021 Jonathan Meth on disability arts, dramaturgy and asking questions | Podcast
- 8 May 2021 What will Piccadilly Circus look like in 100 years?
- 8 May 2021 Grief books, my father and friend's deaths
- 28 Apr 2021 Rishi Dastidar on life, poetry, and writing | Podcast
- 25 Apr 2021 Mudlarking on the river Thames
- 15 Apr 2021 Mya-Rose Craig, Birdgirl on joys of birding, activism and accessibility to nature
- 10 Apr 2021 Fuschia Dunlop, understanding China through food
- 9 Apr 2021 Theatre, inequity, post-COVID build back
- 27 Mar 2021 Education: formalists vs progressives
- 13 Mar 2021 Beautiful Young Minds, X + Y
- 12 Mar 2021 Jane Bodie, Ben Yeoh in conversation, writing, art and life.
- 28 Feb 2021 Tom Stoppard biography
- 4 Feb 2021 ThenDoBetter Grant winner: Lorenzo Evans
- 15 Jan 2021 When will the UK reach herd immunity? Likely by June 2021 if not before.
2020
- 13 Dec 2020 Doris Iarovici in conversation. Minus One.
- 14 Nov 2020 Rebecca Giggs. Fathoms: the world in the whale.
- 30 Oct 2020 Learning from Losing at Scrabble Championships
- 13 Oct 2020 Hand dryers and Bigly
- 28 Sept 2020 Far Flung Civilisations
- 26 Jul 2020 UK Arts funding, voucher scheme?
- 26 Jul 2020 On-line communities, light + dark
- 23 Jun 2020 Frequent Production equals successful internet production
- 5 Jun 2020 Fathoms: the world in the whale | Rebecca Giggs
- 24 May 2020 Madeline Kripke- kept one of the world’s largest private collection of dictionaries
- 10 May 2020 Mad World, music in lockdown
- 2 May 2020 Mark Ravenhill in conversation (April 2020), Impro and Schaubühne
- 18 Apr 2020 How to Fail, Malcolm Gladwell edition, Elizabeth Day
- 18 Apr 2020 Pink was not pink, the colour as we know it. Cultural change.
- 18 Apr 2020 Playwrights: Moira Buffini. Zinnie Harris. Alistair McDowall. Lucy Kirkwood. Tim Crouch.
- 4 Apr 2020 Steamed fish, Chinese wok style
- 3 Apr 2020 Do we need more David Chappelle?
- 3 Apr 2020 Review, Thinking Bigly online
- 19 Mar 2020 Thinking Bigly, On-Line show 26 March
- 5 Mar 2020 Latest Winner: ThenDoBetter Grant, Mia Hague for Greyling Post
- 22 Feb 2020 OMG first used in 1917 in a letter to Winston Churchill
- 21 Feb 2020 OpenSpace as applied to Theatre and Climate
- 20 Feb 2020 Viral Dances, weakly inefficient markets in everything
- 8 Feb 2020 A piece of theatre blog history, Megan Vaughan's book on theatre blogs
- 8 Feb 2020 Grant Winner: Ioana Mischie, maths books for autistic children
- 25 Jan 2020 Maps, Streets vs Roads - dates the age of a city
- 25 Jan 2020 "Fake Meat", origins with Chinese Monks
- 23 Jan 2020 Power of Silence, Performing Thinking Bigly
- 11 Jan 2020 Grant Winner: Marjorie Morgan, oral history in North of England
- 4 Jan 2020 State of the National Theatre
- 3 Jan 2020 TS Eliot's love letters to Emily Hale unveiled
2019
- 20 Dec 2019 Theatre teaching business, teaming, trust and speaking up
- 22 Nov 2019 Dessa, rapper, writer; memoir
- 17 Nov 2019 Dating, how we do it, how on-line is taking over
- 16 Nov 2019 Craft: a guide to making Poetry happen
- 3 Nov 2019 Cost of living in NYC
- 2 Nov 2019 Free speech, political truth and fake news
- 2 Nov 2019 Wendell Pierce
- 8 Oct 2019 Sheila Nortley, Associate Director on the Dutchman
- 28 Sept 2019 Advice from Cormac McCarthy on writing science papers
- 26 Sept 2019 Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. Caryl Churchill. Reflections.
- 14 Sept 2019 Bisola Alabi, Playwright Interview
- 14 Sept 2019 A beginner's guide to Japan
- 5 Sept 2019 Do we need more Joe Rogan?
- 29 Aug 2019 My new old writing desk, a small piece of British industrial design history
- 26 Aug 2019 50 playwrights on Their Craft
- 27 Jul 2019 Messy, Borges, Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
- 19 Jul 2019 Olafur Eliasson: Tate Modern exhibition
- 13 Jul 2019 Breadth as well as deliberate practice
- 29 Jun 2019 Ideas that don't make sense, Rory Sutherland
- 2 Jun 2019 Thanking donors, no impact on donation
- 20 May 2019 In defence of Arts Education investment
- 20 May 2019 Asian American, published and tours Asia, Winnie Li
- 16 May 2019 Dreams, one of the best games of its generation
- 11 May 2019 Why America is called America
- 8 May 2019 Grice Maxims
- 27 Apr 2019 Stephen Jeffrey’s Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write
- 19 Apr 2019 How not to bore your audience at a reading, Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 12 Apr 2019 British Library accepts ASD son’s book
- 1 Apr 2019 Top Girls
- 28 Mar 2019 Instapoetry, who's worried? Not me.
- 25 Mar 2019 Philip Roth on writing
- 23 Mar 2019 World echoing language and lacuna choices
- 22 Mar 2019 What’s a performance lecture?
- 22 Mar 2019 Dementia, end of life
- 14 Mar 2019 Launch of the Developer, architecture and placemaking site
- 14 Mar 2019 Sorry To Bother You by danhett | a videogame about technology and journalists
- 10 Mar 2019 Well-made play structure dissected
- 7 Mar 2019 On being 97 years old
- 6 Mar 2019 Autism, Stories, Representation and All In a Row - Review
- 24 Feb 2019 Climate Change Art, a NY writer's journey.
- 24 Feb 2019 The Egg that broke Instagram
- 10 Feb 2019 Digital Artwork Competition | £20,000
- 10 Feb 2019 Radio Drama Fund | Audible $5m
- 27 Jan 2019 Creativity: be a slow-motion multi-tasker
- 26 Jan 2019 Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag | Shalamov
- 5 Jan 2019 Fish cheeks and a story of old China
- 5 Jan 2019 Projects for 2019
2018
- 8 Dec 2018 Thinking about Purpose
- 24 Nov 2018 Jonathan Franzen: 10 Rules for novelists and mocking
- 17 Nov 2018 Remarkable Glass Art in Seattle
- 17 Nov 2018 Fragmented Reflections on Chris Goode's Mirabel
- 3 Nov 2018 ear for eye, debbie tucker green, Thoughts Sparked by the Play
- 1 Nov 2018 White Teeth, the play
- 14 Oct 2018 Simon McBurney on theatre for world theatre day
- 25 Sept 2018 Kate Wasserberg, Dauntless Theatre
- 15 Sept 2018 San Francisco Modern Art, Reflections
- 13 Sept 2018 Kiln Theatre, let's stand with the Artistic Director
- 9 Sept 2018 Theatre artistic director flux, arts jobs and projects
- 8 Sept 2018 Am I a Crazy Rich Asian?
- 1 Sept 2018 Misfits, Michaela Cole, personal reflections on UK TV
- 29 Aug 2018 Eurasia, new ways of seeing
- 17 Aug 2018 Literary Manager, Royal Court, a conversation
- 26 Jul 2018 Brona Titley, Aisling Bea on Friendship
- 20 Jul 2018 Mel Kenyon, legendary agent
- 8 Jul 2018 Football, Theatre and Team Cultures
- 23 Jun 2018 David Eldridge, Chris Goode in conversation
- 21 Jun 2018 Sophie Woolley Interview
- 9 Jun 2018 These questions are killing me. Tesla’s Elon Musk: A short verbatim play
- 5 Jun 2018 Learnings from a Welsh goalkeeper
- 22 May 2018 Me and the Young Vic space
- 20 May 2018 Lorrie Moore Essays
- 16 May 2018 Eddo-Lodge: Why I am no longer talking to white people about race
- 16 May 2018 This is America - black american experience
- 10 May 2018 Theatre Critics. Lyn Gardner axed from Guardian.
- 6 May 2018 Science Fiction Writing startling fresh ideas
- 6 May 2018 Cutting silos
- 21 Apr 2018 Kwame Kwei-Armah new season at Young Vic
- 27 Mar 2018 Power of silence. Gun control advocate.
- 25 Mar 2018 How to raise a feminist child
- 17 Mar 2018 Dance writing advice
- 23 Feb 2018 Aphorisms, poetry, 95 Reminders by Rishi Dastidar
- 18 Feb 2018 The Droves, immersive theatre, and the magic of children
- 30 Jan 2018 Buying social media friends and followers, wholesale.
- 28 Jan 2018 Farewell, Ursula K Le Guin.
- 22 Jan 2018 Zadie Smith. Questions and Answers.
- 17 Jan 2018 Rufus Norris. Teach creativity in UK state schools.
- 8 Jan 2018 Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Speech on the voices who are not heard
2017
- 20 Dec 2017 How to live a life, well lived. Bernie De Koven.
- 16 Dec 2017 Never a wrong time to do the right thing. Free Speech.
- 22 Nov 2017 Testimony. Charles Reznikoff.
- 22 Nov 2017 MeToo Business stories
- 19 Nov 2017 Annie Proulx acceptance speech
- 16 Nov 2017 Tony Matelli, Marlborough Contemporary Art London
- 12 Nov 2017 Clinton. Blair. Transcript on Diana's Death.
- 8 Nov 2017 To everything - A time
- 24 Oct 2017 Zadie Smith. Writing Tips.
- 19 Oct 2017 Philip Pullman. Writing tips.
- 17 Oct 2017 Sheryl Sandberg. Life lessons. Commencement. Gratitude.
- 11 Oct 2017 Adrienne Kennedy. Thank you.
- 11 Oct 2017 Coney. Annual review. 2017.
- 8 Oct 2017 Dickie Beau. Blackouts.
- 4 Oct 2017 Oprah Winfrey. Life Lessons. Intention and Gratitude.
- 2 Oct 2017 Serendipity Gods
- 28 Sept 2017 Linkedin poem
- 28 Sept 2017 Hideously White. Adds Splash of Colour. Young Vic.
- 25 Sept 2017 Half Breed. Natasha Marshall.
- 18 Sept 2017 Life lessons. Anne Lamott.
- 11 Sept 2017 Thank you, Gideon.
- 3 Sept 2017 Writing Craft Tools
- 1 Sept 2017 Tate Exchange
- 31 Aug 2017 Incomplete and Random
- 26 Aug 2017 Life Lessons. Matt Haig.
- 24 Aug 2017 Font choosing
- 23 Aug 2017 Writing Craft
- 22 Aug 2017 Mexico. Gertrude Stein.
- 19 Aug 2017 JK Rowling Benefits of Failure
- 18 Aug 2017 Writing Competitions
- 16 Aug 2017 Life Operating Manual
- 12 Aug 2017 Trustees Wanted
- 10 Aug 2017 To Jane To Sue
- 9 Aug 2017 Black American Experience
- 8 Aug 2017 Appearing Rooms
- 7 Aug 2017 dirty butterfly. debbie tucker green.
- 7 Aug 2017 Studio Space at Somerset House Studios
- 6 Aug 2017 Men and Girls Dance
- 5 Aug 2017 Weekly Summary
- 4 Aug 2017 David Jones. Works grow over time.
- 3 Aug 2017 Award application. Artists. Writers. With children.
- 31 Jul 2017 Gift giving. A work of art is a gift.
- 29 Jul 2017 Last bucketwrights in Kyoto. Okeyasan. Cooper.
- 28 Jul 2017 David Ogilvy. On Advertising.
- 22 Jul 2017 Make mistakes. Neil Gaiman commencement address.
- 17 Jul 2017 Brexit. Pina Bausch. Cafe Müller.
- 16 Jul 2017 Playwrights ask questions. Power of Beyonce. Who is Caryl Churchill?

Investing
- 1 Mar 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- 29 Nov 2023 Nina Gené: Venture Philanthropy, Jasmine Social Investments, Impact investing | Podcast
- 19 Aug 2023 Chris Stark conversation at Chatham House June 2023
- 2 Jul 2023 Obesity drug research, triple G
- 18 Jun 2023 Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
- 16 Jun 2023 Hedge Fund Carbon Accounting
- 9 Jun 2023 Is life in the UK as bad as the 1970s? Look at the misery index.
- 9 Jun 2023 Tyler Cowen: Hayek lecture on economics, AI and large langauge models
- 19 Apr 2023 Why are there so few UK IPO listings and what could we do about it?
- 23 Feb 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- 10 Feb 2023 FCA has published a collection of ESG/sustainability thought pieces
- 13 Jan 2023 George Serafeim podcast transcript, Citywire with Algy Hall | Fix the Future
- 19 Nov 2022 11 quirky tips on navigating an investment conference and observations
- 12 Nov 2022 Fall of FTX, Trust, expected value and trading blow-ups
- 2 Nov 2022 Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing | Podcast
- 2 Nov 2022 Net Zero thinking, investments and fiduciary duty
- 9 Oct 2022 Mark Koyama: How the World Became Rich, economic history, intangibles, culture, progress | podcast
- 24 Sept 2022 Jacob Soll: the history of free market ideas, Cicero, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Machievelli | Podcast
- 17 Sept 2022 Alex Edmans: End of ESG, or, ESG as important intangibles but not special versus other important intangibles
- 17 Sept 2022 Beware CEOs who golf too much
- 21 Jul 2022 Leigh Caldwell: cognitive economics, power of stories, how the mind consumes dreams and plans future actions | Podcast
- 26 Jun 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- 21 Jun 2022 ThenDoBetter Grant winner: Otto Kgosiemang, Botswana, community outreach, travel
- 14 Jun 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- 28 May 2022 The US SEC has proposed two ESG rules for asset managers.
- 22 May 2022 Bartley Madden proposes systems thinking ahead of linear ESG metrics to solve for NetZero:
- 20 May 2022 Carl Saxton-Pizzie: building a £30m sustainable grocery delivery company, mental health, sustainability | Podcast
- 7 May 2022 UK Charity investment law case: charities have the discretion to exclude investments
- 22 Apr 2022 Annemarie Naylor: public goods, sovereign health fund, technology and future of justice | Podcast
- 10 Apr 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- 27 Mar 2022 Carbon Standards notes
- 21 Mar 2022 Stian Westlake on the intangible economy, recession, stagnation, inequality, BS jobs and new institutions | Podcast
- 28 Feb 2022 Alec Stapp: policy for progress, under-researched areas, science of science, biosecurity | Podcast
- 12 Feb 2022 New Peleton CEO, management philosophy
- 7 Feb 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- 11 Jan 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- 11 Dec 2021 Sustainability UnConference, notes and agenda
- 4 Dec 2021 Financial Reporting Council (FRC) on effective stewardship reporting
- 8 Nov 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- 7 Nov 2021 The Great Quitting, many industries are going to be hard hit
- 22 Oct 2021 UK government behavioural insights team secret report on NetZero
- 1 Oct 2021 Alex Edmans responds to Tariq Fancy ESG critique
- 19 Sept 2021 Diane Coyle: Cogs and Monsters, book review
- 31 Aug 2021 Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP | podcast
- 22 Aug 2021 Speed of technological progress in some areas
- 25 Jul 2021 Catherine Howarth on shareholder activism, growing back better and change makers | Podcast
- 24 Jul 2021 COVID, entering the end game as an endemic disease
- 15 Jul 2021 Matt Clancy on innovation studies, progress and remote work
- 18 Jun 2021 Latest UK climate change report
- 1 Jun 2021 Ford's new EV truck, Lightning
- 16 May 2021 Tom Gosling on incentives, corporate purpose, netzero and happiness; Podcast
- 7 May 2021 How is the global energy transition going? Smil, JP Morgan
- 9 Apr 2021 EU netzero, Adam Tooze take
- 9 Apr 2021 Decline in poverty, debate
- 27 Mar 2021 Consumer green energy default choice is sticky
- 18 Mar 2021 What should UK innovation, ARIA, look at
- 14 Mar 2021 NetZero framework, HSBC engagement
- 9 Mar 2021 Why 1857 French patent law made Basel wealthy and birthed Swiss Pharmaceuticals
- 15 Feb 2021 Bill Gates, Wired, on invest vs divest
- 13 Feb 2021 Finnish worker culture, no impact from board representation
- 13 Feb 2021 Theory of change, depression drugs, fossil fuel divestment
- 1 Feb 2021 Quick links: climate, circular economy, grief, china, spaced repetition
- 10 Jan 2021 Was 2020 a turning point year?
- 7 Jan 2021 Mark Carney: Markets, COVID, Climate, Reith lectures
- 21 Nov 2020 COVID, why so many are mostly wrong, or only a little correct.
- 8 Sept 2020 Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
- 5 Sept 2020 Life changing love of a world changing physicist
- 28 Aug 2020 COVID Vaccine coverage estimates
- 8 Aug 2020 Jeff Besos Statement on Amazon to US House of Rep
- 27 Jul 2020 Elon Musk on dynastic wealth (against)
- 26 Jul 2020 Climate scenarios, worse case + best case unlikely
- 28 Jun 2020 What I learnt (super)forecasting COVID
- 27 Jun 2020 Speed, advantages and considerations, John Collison interview
- 23 Jun 2020 Marc Andreessen Interview, productivity, outcomes vs process
- 24 May 2020 What mindsets for investing markets can help with COVID thinking
- 24 May 2020 Cliff Asness, Death of Value Investing
- 2 May 2020 Taboo Cognition, Tetlock
- 24 Apr 2020 58 COVID predictions over the long-term
- 24 Apr 2020 Time to Build and why we are not…
- 17 Apr 2020 Grow The Pie, Alex Edmans, book review and webinar
- 5 Apr 2020 Michael Liebreich on climate post-COVID
- 3 Apr 2020 COVID, UK Critical care patient characteristics
- 25 Mar 2020 Policy Idea: Regulators Could Allow Early Use of COVID-19 Vaccine or Treatment
- 17 Mar 2020 COVID, UK Imperial College team, modelling scenarios
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, Policy: vaccine acceleration proposal, treatment accelration proposal
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, No impact seen on atmospheric CO2 in Q1 2020
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, brutal maths and counter-factuals
- 10 Mar 2020 Why important to flatten COVID curve for healthcare capacity, England
- 5 Mar 2020 COVID, resources, notes, thoughts on present and future
- 5 Mar 2020 Inequality as side effect, grow the pie
- 20 Feb 2020 Where did UK science go?
- 20 Feb 2020 Mission/Impact in private markets may have lower financial returns
- 15 Feb 2020 Mark Carney argues that low carbon growth is possible
- 8 Feb 2020 GHG Emissions, Sources and Activities, WRI latest
- 25 Jan 2020 Oil CEOs meet to look at targeting carbon scope 3
- 25 Jan 2020 Ben Yeoh on ESG Investing Techniques
- 23 Jan 2020 Climate, cognitive strengths of Greta, Bill Gates, Chris Hohn
- 4 Jan 2020 Brydon Review into UK Audit
- 3 Jan 2020 The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
- 3 Jan 2020 Remote Working Apps and start-ups
ESG
- 1 Mar 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- 29 Nov 2023 Nina Gené: Venture Philanthropy, Jasmine Social Investments, Impact investing | Podcast
- 18 Jun 2023 Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
- 16 Jun 2023 Hedge Fund Carbon Accounting
- 23 Feb 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- 10 Feb 2023 FCA has published a collection of ESG/sustainability thought pieces
- 13 Jan 2023 George Serafeim podcast transcript, Citywire with Algy Hall | Fix the Future
- 12 Nov 2022 Fall of FTX, Trust, expected value and trading blow-ups
- 2 Nov 2022 Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing | Podcast
- 17 Sept 2022 Alex Edmans: End of ESG, or, ESG as important intangibles but not special versus other important intangibles
- 17 Sept 2022 Beware CEOs who golf too much
- 26 Jun 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- 14 Jun 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- 28 May 2022 The US SEC has proposed two ESG rules for asset managers.
- 22 May 2022 Bartley Madden proposes systems thinking ahead of linear ESG metrics to solve for NetZero:
- 20 May 2022 Carl Saxton-Pizzie: building a £30m sustainable grocery delivery company, mental health, sustainability | Podcast
- 7 May 2022 UK Charity investment law case: charities have the discretion to exclude investments
- 22 Apr 2022 Annemarie Naylor: public goods, sovereign health fund, technology and future of justice | Podcast
- 10 Apr 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- 7 Feb 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- 11 Jan 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- 11 Dec 2021 Sustainability UnConference, notes and agenda
- 4 Dec 2021 Financial Reporting Council (FRC) on effective stewardship reporting
- 8 Nov 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- 7 Nov 2021 The Great Quitting, many industries are going to be hard hit
- 22 Oct 2021 UK government behavioural insights team secret report on NetZero
- 1 Oct 2021 Alex Edmans responds to Tariq Fancy ESG critique
- 19 Sept 2021 Diane Coyle: Cogs and Monsters, book review
- 11 Sept 2021 Climate, political economy challenges
- 31 Aug 2021 Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP | podcast
- 25 Jul 2021 Catherine Howarth on shareholder activism, growing back better and change makers | Podcast
- 18 Jun 2021 Latest UK climate change report
- 1 Jun 2021 Ford's new EV truck, Lightning
- 16 May 2021 Tom Gosling on incentives, corporate purpose, netzero and happiness; Podcast
- 9 Apr 2021 EU netzero, Adam Tooze take
- 9 Apr 2021 Decline in poverty, debate
- 14 Mar 2021 NetZero framework, HSBC engagement
- 15 Feb 2021 Bill Gates, Wired, on invest vs divest
- 13 Feb 2021 Finnish worker culture, no impact from board representation
- 13 Feb 2021 Theory of change, depression drugs, fossil fuel divestment
- 10 Jan 2021 Was 2020 a turning point year?
- 7 Jan 2021 Mark Carney: Markets, COVID, Climate, Reith lectures
- 27 Jun 2020 Speed, advantages and considerations, John Collison interview
- 17 Apr 2020 Grow The Pie, Alex Edmans, book review and webinar
- 5 Apr 2020 Michael Liebreich on climate post-COVID
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, Policy: vaccine acceleration proposal, treatment accelration proposal
- 10 Mar 2020 Why important to flatten COVID curve for healthcare capacity, England
- 5 Mar 2020 Inequality as side effect, grow the pie
- 20 Feb 2020 Where did UK science go?
- 20 Feb 2020 Mission/Impact in private markets may have lower financial returns
- 15 Feb 2020 Mark Carney argues that low carbon growth is possible
- 3 Feb 2020 Quality of Government matters more than size of government for human development, education and life expectancy
- 25 Jan 2020 Oil CEOs meet to look at targeting carbon scope 3
- 25 Jan 2020 Ben Yeoh on ESG Investing Techniques
- 23 Jan 2020 Climate Change Commission, land use, UK
- 23 Jan 2020 Climate, cognitive strengths of Greta, Bill Gates, Chris Hohn
- 4 Jan 2020 Brydon Review into UK Audit
- 3 Jan 2020 The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
- 12 Oct 2019 Upcycle Studios, Orestad; sustainable housing development, Lendager, NREP
- 25 Sept 2019 Leadership / WeWork
- 25 Sept 2019 Under-investment in Green Tech
- 23 Sept 2019 Incentive Pay, CII update
- 14 Sept 2019 ESG-linked pay, PRI session
- 14 Sept 2019 Shell CEO defending its climate policy alignment
- 22 Aug 2019 Stakeholder Capitalism
- 31 Jul 2019 Government Clean Tech R&D spend
- 15 Jun 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- 14 Jun 2019 Good UK Tax Design
- 11 Jun 2019 EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations
- 17 May 2019 Absolute Mobility, Country Changes, contributions of growth and inequality
- 11 May 2019 A longitudinal look at inequality
- 18 Apr 2019 Carbon Tax, an assessment
- 13 Apr 2019 Extinction Rebellion, a look inside
- 6 Apr 2019 Ray Dalio on reforming capitalism
- 28 Mar 2019 Recent Carbon Trends, IEA
- 24 Feb 2019 Univeral Basic Income, Finland experiment
- 24 Feb 2019 New Zealand looking at non-financial capitals, more than GDP
- 19 Feb 2019 Significant Major cross-discipline EAT-Lancet Commission paper on Sustainable Food
- 19 Feb 2019 AQR Quant paper on ESG
- 5 Feb 2019 Germs killed 90% native americans c. 1500 causing re-forestation and mini ice age
- 28 Jan 2019 Long-term impacts of exposure to high temperatures on human capital
- 19 Jan 2019 Summary notes on IASB meeting on management commentary
- 18 Jan 2019 The Power of Shareholder Votes: Evidence from Uncontested Director Elections
- 18 Jan 2019 Are Energy Executives Rewarded For Luck?
- 14 Jan 2019 Prosperity, Colin Mayer - on the purpose of business
- 5 Jan 2019 Impact Investing papers on return, healthcare over 200 years
- 17 Nov 2018 UK Poverty, severe and worse if there's a disabled person in family
- 1 Nov 2018 Public Sentiment and price of Corporate Sustainability
- 21 Sept 2018 Why ESG ratings will never agree and some of the problems of ratings
- 29 Aug 2018 Climate science 100 over years ago
- 17 Aug 2018 Axioma Quant ESG study
- 3 Aug 2018 ESG Survey, US Callan
- 21 Jul 2018 Green Finance Initiative
- 14 Jul 2018 Regulatory Compass, Financial Purpose report
- 5 Jul 2018 Morgan Stanley: ESG survey of asset owners
- 22 Jun 2018 Divesting sectors. The impact on returns. Evidence that oil divestment may not impact returns.
- 20 Jun 2018 The dawning of Japanese Corporate Governance
- 16 Jun 2018 Impact Investing in the UK
- 4 Jun 2018 ESG matters, both for operational and share price performance. Nordea.
- 20 May 2018 Quant Survey ESG and other Factors
Economics
- 18 Oct 2024 Julia Garayo Willemyns: policy ideas, progress, growth, AI, Talent | Podcast
- 14 May 2024 Rasheed Griffith: Progress, Caribbean, policy, food, music, talent assessment, culture | Podcast
- 1 Mar 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- 19 Aug 2023 Chris Stark conversation at Chatham House June 2023
- 30 Jun 2023 UK Healthcare spend as % GDP since 1970 vs Germany, OECD
- 16 Jun 2023 Hedge Fund Carbon Accounting
- 9 Jun 2023 Is life in the UK as bad as the 1970s? Look at the misery index.
- 9 Jun 2023 Tyler Cowen: Hayek lecture on economics, AI and large langauge models
- 19 Apr 2023 Why are there so few UK IPO listings and what could we do about it?
- 23 Feb 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- 12 Nov 2022 Fall of FTX, Trust, expected value and trading blow-ups
- 2 Nov 2022 Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing | Podcast
- 9 Oct 2022 Mark Koyama: How the World Became Rich, economic history, intangibles, culture, progress | podcast
- 24 Sept 2022 Jacob Soll: the history of free market ideas, Cicero, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Machievelli | Podcast
- 21 Jul 2022 Leigh Caldwell: cognitive economics, power of stories, how the mind consumes dreams and plans future actions | Podcast
- 26 Jun 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- 21 Jun 2022 ThenDoBetter Grant winner: Otto Kgosiemang, Botswana, community outreach, travel
- 14 Jun 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- 28 May 2022 The US SEC has proposed two ESG rules for asset managers.
- 22 May 2022 Bartley Madden proposes systems thinking ahead of linear ESG metrics to solve for NetZero:
- 7 May 2022 UK Charity investment law case: charities have the discretion to exclude investments
- 22 Apr 2022 Annemarie Naylor: public goods, sovereign health fund, technology and future of justice | Podcast
- 10 Apr 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- 21 Mar 2022 Stian Westlake on the intangible economy, recession, stagnation, inequality, BS jobs and new institutions | Podcast
- 28 Feb 2022 Alec Stapp: policy for progress, under-researched areas, science of science, biosecurity | Podcast
- 12 Feb 2022 New Peleton CEO, management philosophy
- 7 Feb 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- 4 Dec 2021 Financial Reporting Council (FRC) on effective stewardship reporting
- 22 Nov 2021 Zeke Hausfather: state of climate science, energy systems, post COP26, tipping points, tail risks | Podcast
- 8 Nov 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- 7 Nov 2021 The Great Quitting, many industries are going to be hard hit
- 22 Oct 2021 UK government behavioural insights team secret report on NetZero
- 19 Sept 2021 Diane Coyle: Cogs and Monsters, book review
- 11 Sept 2021 Climate, political economy challenges
- 31 Aug 2021 Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP | podcast
- 15 Jul 2021 Matt Clancy on innovation studies, progress and remote work
- 1 Jun 2021 Ford's new EV truck, Lightning
- 16 May 2021 Tom Gosling on incentives, corporate purpose, netzero and happiness; Podcast
- 7 May 2021 How is the global energy transition going? Smil, JP Morgan
- 9 Apr 2021 Decline in poverty, debate
- 27 Mar 2021 Consumer green energy default choice is sticky
- 14 Mar 2021 NetZero framework, HSBC engagement
- 9 Mar 2021 Why 1857 French patent law made Basel wealthy and birthed Swiss Pharmaceuticals
- 13 Feb 2021 Finnish worker culture, no impact from board representation
- 13 Feb 2021 Theory of change, depression drugs, fossil fuel divestment
- 1 Feb 2021 Quick links: climate, circular economy, grief, china, spaced repetition
- 10 Jan 2021 Was 2020 a turning point year?
- 7 Jan 2021 Mark Carney: Markets, COVID, Climate, Reith lectures
- 21 Nov 2020 COVID, why so many are mostly wrong, or only a little correct.
- 8 Sept 2020 Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
- 2 May 2020 Taboo Cognition, Tetlock
- 24 Apr 2020 58 COVID predictions over the long-term
- 24 Apr 2020 Time to Build and why we are not…
- 17 Apr 2020 Grow The Pie, Alex Edmans, book review and webinar
- 5 Apr 2020 Michael Liebreich on climate post-COVID
- 25 Mar 2020 Policy Idea: Regulators Could Allow Early Use of COVID-19 Vaccine or Treatment
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, Policy: vaccine acceleration proposal, treatment accelration proposal
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, No impact seen on atmospheric CO2 in Q1 2020
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, brutal maths and counter-factuals
- 13 Mar 2020 COVID $1m+ in prizes
- 5 Mar 2020 Inequality as side effect, grow the pie
- 20 Feb 2020 Where did UK science go?
- 20 Feb 2020 Mission/Impact in private markets may have lower financial returns
- 15 Feb 2020 Mark Carney argues that low carbon growth is possible
- 3 Feb 2020 Quality of Government matters more than size of government for human development, education and life expectancy
- 25 Jan 2020 Oil CEOs meet to look at targeting carbon scope 3
- 4 Jan 2020 Brydon Review into UK Audit
- 3 Jan 2020 The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
- 20 Dec 2019 Science of progress, what is progress?
- 3 Dec 2019 Critique of GDP and carbon Tax, Vaclav Smil
- 11 Oct 2019 Dealing with email
- 28 Sept 2019 Goldman Sachs: climate change, Cities resilience
- 14 Sept 2019 ESG-linked pay, PRI session
- 23 Aug 2019 Primer: how to forecast
- 22 Aug 2019 Stakeholder Capitalism
- 18 Aug 2019 Analysis on oil, renewables, mobility and EVs, Mark Lewis.
- 19 Jul 2019 Ray Dalio: Paradigm Shift, Investing
- 16 Jul 2019 Life expectancy Race, child mortality and GDP
- 13 Jul 2019 Superforecasting tips and techniques
- 29 Jun 2019 Civic Honesty: Wallets with money more likely to handed back
- 15 Jun 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- 14 Jun 2019 Good UK Tax Design
- 11 Jun 2019 EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations
- 25 May 2019 The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades
- 17 May 2019 Absolute Mobility, Country Changes, contributions of growth and inequality
- 17 May 2019 Taleb on Dalio, Capitalism not broken - it's skin in the game
- 11 May 2019 A longitudinal look at inequality
- 18 Apr 2019 Carbon Tax, an assessment
- 6 Apr 2019 Ray Dalio on reforming capitalism
- 31 Mar 2019 Jobs, Stories of energy transition
- 4 Mar 2019 UK life expectancy and healthcare spend vs OECD. NHS success story?
- 24 Feb 2019 Univeral Basic Income, Finland experiment
- 24 Feb 2019 New Zealand looking at non-financial capitals, more than GDP
- 19 Feb 2019 Significant Major cross-discipline EAT-Lancet Commission paper on Sustainable Food
- 10 Feb 2019 Social science, Economics, replication study crisis
- 6 Feb 2019 Confronting inequality
- 28 Jan 2019 Long-term impacts of exposure to high temperatures on human capital
- 25 Jan 2019 What is Davos like?
- 19 Jan 2019 Summary notes on IASB meeting on management commentary
- 18 Jan 2019 The Power of Shareholder Votes: Evidence from Uncontested Director Elections
Carbon
- 1 Mar 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- 19 Aug 2023 Chris Stark conversation at Chatham House June 2023
- 16 Jun 2023 Hedge Fund Carbon Accounting
- 23 Feb 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- 26 Jun 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- 14 Jun 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- 7 May 2022 UK Charity investment law case: charities have the discretion to exclude investments
- 10 Apr 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- 27 Mar 2022 Carbon Standards notes
- 7 Feb 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- 11 Dec 2021 Sustainability UnConference, notes and agenda
- 22 Nov 2021 Zeke Hausfather: state of climate science, energy systems, post COP26, tipping points, tail risks | Podcast
- 8 Nov 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- 22 Oct 2021 UK government behavioural insights team secret report on NetZero
- 11 Sept 2021 Climate, political economy challenges
- 18 Jun 2021 Latest UK climate change report
- 1 Jun 2021 Ford's new EV truck, Lightning
- 7 May 2021 How is the global energy transition going? Smil, JP Morgan
- 9 Apr 2021 EU netzero, Adam Tooze take
- 27 Mar 2021 Consumer green energy default choice is sticky
- 18 Mar 2021 What should UK innovation, ARIA, look at
- 15 Feb 2021 Bill Gates, Wired, on invest vs divest
- 13 Feb 2021 Theory of change, depression drugs, fossil fuel divestment
- 26 Jul 2020 Climate scenarios, worse case + best case unlikely
- 5 Apr 2020 Michael Liebreich on climate post-COVID
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, No impact seen on atmospheric CO2 in Q1 2020
- 15 Feb 2020 Mark Carney argues that low carbon growth is possible
- 8 Feb 2020 GHG Emissions, Sources and Activities, WRI latest
- 25 Jan 2020 Oil CEOs meet to look at targeting carbon scope 3
- 23 Jan 2020 Climate Change Commission, land use, UK
- 23 Jan 2020 Climate, cognitive strengths of Greta, Bill Gates, Chris Hohn
- 3 Jan 2020 The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
- 3 Dec 2019 Critique of GDP and carbon Tax, Vaclav Smil
- 12 Oct 2019 Upcycle Studios, Orestad; sustainable housing development, Lendager, NREP
- 28 Sept 2019 Goldman Sachs: climate change, Cities resilience
- 25 Sept 2019 Under-investment in Green Tech
- 14 Sept 2019 Shell CEO defending its climate policy alignment
- 18 Aug 2019 Analysis on oil, renewables, mobility and EVs, Mark Lewis.
- 15 Jun 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- 14 Jun 2019 Good UK Tax Design
- 11 Jun 2019 EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations
- 18 Apr 2019 Carbon Tax, an assessment
- 13 Apr 2019 Extinction Rebellion, a look inside
- 31 Mar 2019 Jobs, Stories of energy transition
- 28 Mar 2019 Recent Carbon Trends, IEA
- 19 Feb 2019 Significant Major cross-discipline EAT-Lancet Commission paper on Sustainable Food
- 5 Feb 2019 Germs killed 90% native americans c. 1500 causing re-forestation and mini ice age
- 28 Jan 2019 Long-term impacts of exposure to high temperatures on human capital
- 21 Nov 2018 Tyler Cowen: Vision of free, prosperous and responsible individuals
- 29 Aug 2018 Climate science 100 over years ago
- 21 Jul 2018 Slavery, climate change and patents - the commonalities.
- 22 Jun 2018 Divesting sectors. The impact on returns. Evidence that oil divestment may not impact returns.
- 7 May 2018 Rio sells coal, what about the planet?
- 18 Sept 2017 Nassim Taleb. Climate Change Risk.
- 17 Sept 2017 Bitcoin. Energy unsustainable.
- 14 Sept 2017 Climate Survey
- 27 Aug 2017 Exxon misled?
- 14 Aug 2017 Bank Sued on Climate Disclosure
- 13 Aug 2017 Free Carbon Model
- 13 Aug 2017 Drones Inspecting Environment
- 19 Jul 2017 Vaclav Smil, energy expert. Awesome.
Health
- 30 Jun 2023 UK Healthcare spend as % GDP since 1970 vs Germany, OECD
- 11 Jan 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- 24 Jul 2021 COVID, entering the end game as an endemic disease
- 18 Mar 2021 What should UK innovation, ARIA, look at
- 13 Jan 2021 Why is the vaccine rollout slow and what we could do
- 21 Nov 2020 COVID, why so many are mostly wrong, or only a little correct.
- 14 Nov 2020 COVID, England infection rate in late Oct 1.3%
- 14 Nov 2020 Vaccine hesitancy, UK (79%) would take vaccine
- 1 Nov 2020 COVID vaccines, timeline update
- 28 Aug 2020 COVID Vaccine coverage estimates
- 26 Jul 2020 UK all cause death below 5 year average
- 24 May 2020 What mindsets for investing markets can help with COVID thinking
- 3 Apr 2020 COVID, UK Critical care patient characteristics
- 28 Mar 2020 Covid. England, Notes from epidemiologist, Neil Ferguson.
- 25 Mar 2020 Policy Idea: Regulators Could Allow Early Use of COVID-19 Vaccine or Treatment
- 17 Mar 2020 COVID, UK Imperial College team, modelling scenarios
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, Policy: vaccine acceleration proposal, treatment accelration proposal
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, No impact seen on atmospheric CO2 in Q1 2020
- 14 Mar 2020 COVID, brutal maths and counter-factuals
- 13 Mar 2020 COVID $1m+ in prizes
- 10 Mar 2020 Why important to flatten COVID curve for healthcare capacity, England
- 5 Mar 2020 COVID, resources, notes, thoughts on present and future
- 20 Feb 2020 Where did UK science go?
- 3 Feb 2020 Quality of Government matters more than size of government for human development, education and life expectancy
- 20 Dec 2019 Science of progress, what is progress?
- 16 Jul 2019 Life expectancy Race, child mortality and GDP
- 10 Jul 2019 Life expectancy from 1800 to 2018
- 6 Apr 2019 Ray Dalio on reforming capitalism
- 4 Mar 2019 UK life expectancy and healthcare spend vs OECD. NHS success story?
- 19 Feb 2019 Significant Major cross-discipline EAT-Lancet Commission paper on Sustainable Food
- 5 Jan 2019 Impact Investing papers on return, healthcare over 200 years
- 6 Sept 2018 Cancer improvement rates, biomedical capital allocation
- 7 Jun 2018 The best time to be born is now
- 17 Mar 2018 Top selling Drugs
- 10 Feb 2018 Healthcare spend, US no consensus on health as a right
- 22 Nov 2017 Why are drug prices high?
- 19 Nov 2017 What a healthcare investment banking conference looks like
- 18 Nov 2017 Digital Pill. Schizophrenia drug.
- 11 Nov 2017 Top 3 Pharma concerns International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations
- 24 Jul 2017 Infant Mortality, SDG - what the data says
- 19 Jul 2017 Vaclav Smil, energy expert. Awesome.
- 18 Jul 2017 Infant Mortality, Slovakia catches up to US over 25 years.
Leadership
- 12 Feb 2022 New Peleton CEO, management philosophy
- 8 Sept 2020 Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
- 27 Jul 2020 Elon Musk on dynastic wealth (against)
- 24 May 2020 What mindsets for investing markets can help with COVID thinking
- 23 Jan 2020 Climate, cognitive strengths of Greta, Bill Gates, Chris Hohn
- 11 Oct 2019 Dealing with email
- 25 Sept 2019 Leadership / WeWork
- 26 Apr 2019 Besos' Amazon shareowner letters, excerpt thoughts
- 6 Apr 2019 Ray Dalio on reforming capitalism
- 3 Mar 2019 IQ not useful for much...
- 3 Aug 2018 Postive R&D Culture, Hal Barron Thoughts
- 23 Jun 2018 Financial Reporting Advisory Group and Lab conference
- 21 May 2018 Elon Musk Productivity Tips
- 7 May 2018 Investing and Responsibility
- 17 Jan 2018 Blackrock CEO supports ESG and Long-Term in 2018 Letter
- 20 Dec 2017 Face-to-Face is better.
- 20 Dec 2017 Know thyself is not enough without change
- 12 Dec 2017 17% Women Board Directors in World
- 5 Nov 2017 Engage. Divest. Invest.
- 1 Nov 2017 Steve Jobs. Life lessons. Commencement.
- 25 Oct 2017 Organising email. My system.
- 10 Oct 2017 Principles. Ray Dalio.
- 7 Sept 2017 Communicating. Tesla.
- 20 Aug 2017 Success Secrets. 8 Words. 3 Minutes.
- 1 Aug 2017 Nassim Taleb. Commencement Address.
- 29 Jul 2017 Oglivy. Principles of Management.
- 23 Jul 2017 Team Work. What Google found.
Podcast
Regulation
- 19 Aug 2023 Chris Stark conversation at Chatham House June 2023
- 28 May 2022 The US SEC has proposed two ESG rules for asset managers.
- 10 Apr 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- 27 Mar 2022 Carbon Standards notes
- 11 Jan 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- 31 Jul 2019 Government Clean Tech R&D spend
- 15 Jun 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- 14 Jul 2018 Regulatory Compass, Financial Purpose report
Arts
- 14 May 2024 Rasheed Griffith: Progress, Caribbean, policy, food, music, talent assessment, culture | Podcast
- 7 Nov 2021 The Great Quitting, many industries are going to be hard hit
- 10 Jan 2021 Was 2020 a turning point year?
- 15 Jun 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- 28 May 2018 Amber Massie-Blomfield: A love letter to Britain’s Theatres
Pensions
- 8 Nov 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- 24 Jul 2017 Pensions. An Absurd Play. UK Advice Services.
Summary
- 1 Feb 2021 Quick links: climate, circular economy, grief, china, spaced repetition
- 5 Aug 2017 Summary so far...