Arts Blog Post Archive. Investing below that.
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Investing
- Oct 3, 2025 How Innovation happens
- Oct 3, 2025 GLP 1 Receptor Agonists and the Future of Health, Economies and Food Systems
- Apr 11, 2025 Samir Varma: Free Will, physics, traffic, bees, emotions, chaos theory, cricket, finance | Podcast
- Mar 1, 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- Nov 29, 2023 Nina Gené: Venture Philanthropy, Jasmine Social Investments, Impact investing | Podcast
- Aug 19, 2023 Chris Stark conversation at Chatham House June 2023
- Jul 2, 2023 Obesity drug research, triple G
- Jun 18, 2023 Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
- Jun 16, 2023 Hedge Fund Carbon Accounting
- Jun 9, 2023 Is life in the UK as bad as the 1970s? Look at the misery index.
- Jun 9, 2023 Tyler Cowen: Hayek lecture on economics, AI and large langauge models
- Apr 19, 2023 Why are there so few UK IPO listings and what could we do about it?
- Feb 23, 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- Feb 10, 2023 FCA has published a collection of ESG/sustainability thought pieces
- Jan 13, 2023 George Serafeim podcast transcript, Citywire with Algy Hall | Fix the Future
- Nov 19, 2022 11 quirky tips on navigating an investment conference and observations
- Nov 12, 2022 Fall of FTX, Trust, expected value and trading blow-ups
- Nov 2, 2022 Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing | Podcast
- Nov 2, 2022 Net Zero thinking, investments and fiduciary duty
- Oct 9, 2022 Mark Koyama: How the World Became Rich, economic history, intangibles, culture, progress | podcast
- Sep 24, 2022 Jacob Soll: the history of free market ideas, Cicero, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Machievelli | Podcast
- Sep 17, 2022 Alex Edmans: End of ESG, or, ESG as important intangibles but not special versus other important intangibles
- Sep 17, 2022 Beware CEOs who golf too much
- Jul 21, 2022 Leigh Caldwell: cognitive economics, power of stories, how the mind consumes dreams and plans future actions | Podcast
- Jun 26, 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- Jun 21, 2022 ThenDoBetter Grant winner: Otto Kgosiemang, Botswana, community outreach, travel
- Jun 14, 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- May 28, 2022 The US SEC has proposed two ESG rules for asset managers.
- May 22, 2022 Bartley Madden proposes systems thinking ahead of linear ESG metrics to solve for NetZero:
- May 20, 2022 Carl Saxton-Pizzie: building a £30m sustainable grocery delivery company, mental health, sustainability | Podcast
- May 7, 2022 UK Charity investment law case: charities have the discretion to exclude investments
- Apr 22, 2022 Annemarie Naylor: public goods, sovereign health fund, technology and future of justice | Podcast
- Apr 10, 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- Mar 27, 2022 Carbon Standards notes
- Mar 21, 2022 Stian Westlake on the intangible economy, recession, stagnation, inequality, BS jobs and new institutions | Podcast
- Feb 28, 2022 Alec Stapp: policy for progress, under-researched areas, science of science, biosecurity | Podcast
- Feb 12, 2022 New Peleton CEO, management philosophy
- Feb 7, 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- Jan 11, 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- Dec 11, 2021 Sustainability UnConference, notes and agenda
- Dec 4, 2021 Financial Reporting Council (FRC) on effective stewardship reporting
- Nov 8, 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- Nov 7, 2021 The Great Quitting, many industries are going to be hard hit
- Oct 22, 2021 UK government behavioural insights team secret report on NetZero
- Oct 1, 2021 Alex Edmans responds to Tariq Fancy ESG critique
- Sep 19, 2021 Diane Coyle: Cogs and Monsters, book review
- Aug 31, 2021 Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP | podcast
- Aug 22, 2021 Speed of technological progress in some areas
- Jul 25, 2021 Catherine Howarth on shareholder activism, growing back better and change makers | Podcast
- Jul 24, 2021 COVID, entering the end game as an endemic disease
- Jul 15, 2021 Matt Clancy on innovation studies, progress and remote work
- Jun 18, 2021 Latest UK climate change report
- Jun 1, 2021 Ford's new EV truck, Lightning
- May 16, 2021 Tom Gosling on incentives, corporate purpose, netzero and happiness; Podcast
- May 7, 2021 How is the global energy transition going? Smil, JP Morgan
- Apr 9, 2021 EU netzero, Adam Tooze take
- Apr 9, 2021 Decline in poverty, debate
- Mar 27, 2021 Consumer green energy default choice is sticky
- Mar 18, 2021 What should UK innovation, ARIA, look at
- Mar 14, 2021 NetZero framework, HSBC engagement
- Mar 9, 2021 Why 1857 French patent law made Basel wealthy and birthed Swiss Pharmaceuticals
- Feb 15, 2021 Bill Gates, Wired, on invest vs divest
- Feb 13, 2021 Finnish worker culture, no impact from board representation
- Feb 13, 2021 Theory of change, depression drugs, fossil fuel divestment
- Feb 1, 2021 Quick links: climate, circular economy, grief, china, spaced repetition
- Jan 10, 2021 Was 2020 a turning point year?
- Jan 7, 2021 Mark Carney: Markets, COVID, Climate, Reith lectures
- Nov 21, 2020 COVID, why so many are mostly wrong, or only a little correct.
- Sep 8, 2020 Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
- Sep 5, 2020 Life changing love of a world changing physicist
- Aug 28, 2020 COVID Vaccine coverage estimates
- Aug 8, 2020 Jeff Besos Statement on Amazon to US House of Rep
- Jul 27, 2020 Elon Musk on dynastic wealth (against)
- Jul 26, 2020 Climate scenarios, worse case + best case unlikely
- Jun 28, 2020 What I learnt (super)forecasting COVID
- Jun 27, 2020 Speed, advantages and considerations, John Collison interview
- Jun 23, 2020 Marc Andreessen Interview, productivity, outcomes vs process
- May 24, 2020 What mindsets for investing markets can help with COVID thinking
- May 24, 2020 Cliff Asness, Death of Value Investing
- May 2, 2020 Taboo Cognition, Tetlock
- Apr 24, 2020 58 COVID predictions over the long-term
- Apr 24, 2020 Time to Build and why we are not…
- Apr 17, 2020 Grow The Pie, Alex Edmans, book review and webinar
- Apr 5, 2020 Michael Liebreich on climate post-COVID
- Apr 3, 2020 COVID, UK Critical care patient characteristics
- Mar 25, 2020 Policy Idea: Regulators Could Allow Early Use of COVID-19 Vaccine or Treatment
- Mar 17, 2020 COVID, UK Imperial College team, modelling scenarios
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, Policy: vaccine acceleration proposal, treatment accelration proposal
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, No impact seen on atmospheric CO2 in Q1 2020
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, brutal maths and counter-factuals
- Mar 10, 2020 Why important to flatten COVID curve for healthcare capacity, England
- Mar 5, 2020 COVID, resources, notes, thoughts on present and future
- Mar 5, 2020 Inequality as side effect, grow the pie
- Feb 20, 2020 Where did UK science go?
- Feb 20, 2020 Mission/Impact in private markets may have lower financial returns
- Feb 15, 2020 Mark Carney argues that low carbon growth is possible
- Feb 8, 2020 GHG Emissions, Sources and Activities, WRI latest
- Jan 25, 2020 Oil CEOs meet to look at targeting carbon scope 3
- Jan 25, 2020 Ben Yeoh on ESG Investing Techniques
- Jan 23, 2020 Climate, cognitive strengths of Greta, Bill Gates, Chris Hohn
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ESG
- Oct 3, 2025 GLP 1 Receptor Agonists and the Future of Health, Economies and Food Systems
- Mar 1, 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- Nov 29, 2023 Nina Gené: Venture Philanthropy, Jasmine Social Investments, Impact investing | Podcast
- Jun 18, 2023 Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
- Jun 16, 2023 Hedge Fund Carbon Accounting
- Feb 23, 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- Feb 10, 2023 FCA has published a collection of ESG/sustainability thought pieces
- Jan 13, 2023 George Serafeim podcast transcript, Citywire with Algy Hall | Fix the Future
- Nov 12, 2022 Fall of FTX, Trust, expected value and trading blow-ups
- Nov 2, 2022 Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing | Podcast
- Sep 17, 2022 Alex Edmans: End of ESG, or, ESG as important intangibles but not special versus other important intangibles
- Sep 17, 2022 Beware CEOs who golf too much
- Jun 26, 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- Jun 14, 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- May 28, 2022 The US SEC has proposed two ESG rules for asset managers.
- May 22, 2022 Bartley Madden proposes systems thinking ahead of linear ESG metrics to solve for NetZero:
- May 20, 2022 Carl Saxton-Pizzie: building a £30m sustainable grocery delivery company, mental health, sustainability | Podcast
- May 7, 2022 UK Charity investment law case: charities have the discretion to exclude investments
- Apr 22, 2022 Annemarie Naylor: public goods, sovereign health fund, technology and future of justice | Podcast
- Apr 10, 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- Feb 7, 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- Jan 11, 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- Dec 11, 2021 Sustainability UnConference, notes and agenda
- Dec 4, 2021 Financial Reporting Council (FRC) on effective stewardship reporting
- Nov 8, 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- Nov 7, 2021 The Great Quitting, many industries are going to be hard hit
- Oct 22, 2021 UK government behavioural insights team secret report on NetZero
- Oct 1, 2021 Alex Edmans responds to Tariq Fancy ESG critique
- Sep 19, 2021 Diane Coyle: Cogs and Monsters, book review
- Sep 11, 2021 Climate, political economy challenges
- Aug 31, 2021 Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP | podcast
- Jul 25, 2021 Catherine Howarth on shareholder activism, growing back better and change makers | Podcast
- Jun 18, 2021 Latest UK climate change report
- Jun 1, 2021 Ford's new EV truck, Lightning
- May 16, 2021 Tom Gosling on incentives, corporate purpose, netzero and happiness; Podcast
- Apr 9, 2021 EU netzero, Adam Tooze take
- Apr 9, 2021 Decline in poverty, debate
- Mar 14, 2021 NetZero framework, HSBC engagement
- Feb 15, 2021 Bill Gates, Wired, on invest vs divest
- Feb 13, 2021 Finnish worker culture, no impact from board representation
- Feb 13, 2021 Theory of change, depression drugs, fossil fuel divestment
- Jan 10, 2021 Was 2020 a turning point year?
- Jan 7, 2021 Mark Carney: Markets, COVID, Climate, Reith lectures
- Jun 27, 2020 Speed, advantages and considerations, John Collison interview
- Apr 17, 2020 Grow The Pie, Alex Edmans, book review and webinar
- Apr 5, 2020 Michael Liebreich on climate post-COVID
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, Policy: vaccine acceleration proposal, treatment accelration proposal
- Mar 10, 2020 Why important to flatten COVID curve for healthcare capacity, England
- Mar 5, 2020 Inequality as side effect, grow the pie
- Feb 20, 2020 Where did UK science go?
- Feb 20, 2020 Mission/Impact in private markets may have lower financial returns
- Feb 15, 2020 Mark Carney argues that low carbon growth is possible
- Feb 3, 2020 Quality of Government matters more than size of government for human development, education and life expectancy
- Jan 25, 2020 Oil CEOs meet to look at targeting carbon scope 3
- Jan 25, 2020 Ben Yeoh on ESG Investing Techniques
- Jan 23, 2020 Climate Change Commission, land use, UK
- Jan 23, 2020 Climate, cognitive strengths of Greta, Bill Gates, Chris Hohn
- Jan 4, 2020 Brydon Review into UK Audit
- Jan 3, 2020 The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
- Oct 12, 2019 Upcycle Studios, Orestad; sustainable housing development, Lendager, NREP
- Sep 25, 2019 Leadership / WeWork
- Sep 25, 2019 Under-investment in Green Tech
- Sep 23, 2019 Incentive Pay, CII update
- Sep 14, 2019 ESG-linked pay, PRI session
- Sep 14, 2019 Shell CEO defending its climate policy alignment
- Aug 22, 2019 Stakeholder Capitalism
- Jul 31, 2019 Government Clean Tech R&D spend
- Jun 15, 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- Jun 14, 2019 Good UK Tax Design
- Jun 11, 2019 EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations
- May 17, 2019 Absolute Mobility, Country Changes, contributions of growth and inequality
- May 11, 2019 A longitudinal look at inequality
- Apr 18, 2019 Carbon Tax, an assessment
- Apr 13, 2019 Extinction Rebellion, a look inside
- Apr 6, 2019 Ray Dalio on reforming capitalism
- Mar 28, 2019 Recent Carbon Trends, IEA
- Feb 24, 2019 Univeral Basic Income, Finland experiment
- Feb 24, 2019 New Zealand looking at non-financial capitals, more than GDP
- Feb 19, 2019 Significant Major cross-discipline EAT-Lancet Commission paper on Sustainable Food
- Feb 19, 2019 AQR Quant paper on ESG
- Feb 5, 2019 Germs killed 90% native americans c. 1500 causing re-forestation and mini ice age
- Jan 28, 2019 Long-term impacts of exposure to high temperatures on human capital
- Jan 19, 2019 Summary notes on IASB meeting on management commentary
- Jan 18, 2019 The Power of Shareholder Votes: Evidence from Uncontested Director Elections
- Jan 18, 2019 Are Energy Executives Rewarded For Luck?
- Jan 14, 2019 Prosperity, Colin Mayer - on the purpose of business
- Jan 5, 2019 Impact Investing papers on return, healthcare over 200 years
- Nov 17, 2018 UK Poverty, severe and worse if there's a disabled person in family
- Nov 1, 2018 Public Sentiment and price of Corporate Sustainability
- Sep 21, 2018 Why ESG ratings will never agree and some of the problems of ratings
- Aug 29, 2018 Climate science 100 over years ago
- Aug 17, 2018 Axioma Quant ESG study
- Aug 3, 2018 ESG Survey, US Callan
- Jul 21, 2018 Green Finance Initiative
- Jul 14, 2018 Regulatory Compass, Financial Purpose report
- Jul 5, 2018 Morgan Stanley: ESG survey of asset owners
- Jun 22, 2018 Divesting sectors. The impact on returns. Evidence that oil divestment may not impact returns.
- Jun 20, 2018 The dawning of Japanese Corporate Governance
- Jun 16, 2018 Impact Investing in the UK
- Jun 4, 2018 ESG matters, both for operational and share price performance. Nordea.
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Economics
- Oct 3, 2025 How Innovation happens
- Oct 3, 2025 GLP 1 Receptor Agonists and the Future of Health, Economies and Food Systems
- Apr 11, 2025 Samir Varma: Free Will, physics, traffic, bees, emotions, chaos theory, cricket, finance | Podcast
- Oct 18, 2024 Julia Garayo Willemyns: policy ideas, progress, growth, AI, Talent | Podcast
- May 14, 2024 Rasheed Griffith: Progress, Caribbean, policy, food, music, talent assessment, culture | Podcast
- Mar 1, 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- Aug 19, 2023 Chris Stark conversation at Chatham House June 2023
- Jun 30, 2023 UK Healthcare spend as % GDP since 1970 vs Germany, OECD
- Jun 16, 2023 Hedge Fund Carbon Accounting
- Jun 9, 2023 Is life in the UK as bad as the 1970s? Look at the misery index.
- Jun 9, 2023 Tyler Cowen: Hayek lecture on economics, AI and large langauge models
- Apr 19, 2023 Why are there so few UK IPO listings and what could we do about it?
- Feb 23, 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- Nov 12, 2022 Fall of FTX, Trust, expected value and trading blow-ups
- Nov 2, 2022 Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing | Podcast
- Oct 9, 2022 Mark Koyama: How the World Became Rich, economic history, intangibles, culture, progress | podcast
- Sep 24, 2022 Jacob Soll: the history of free market ideas, Cicero, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Machievelli | Podcast
- Jul 21, 2022 Leigh Caldwell: cognitive economics, power of stories, how the mind consumes dreams and plans future actions | Podcast
- Jun 26, 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- Jun 21, 2022 ThenDoBetter Grant winner: Otto Kgosiemang, Botswana, community outreach, travel
- Jun 14, 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- May 28, 2022 The US SEC has proposed two ESG rules for asset managers.
- May 22, 2022 Bartley Madden proposes systems thinking ahead of linear ESG metrics to solve for NetZero:
- May 7, 2022 UK Charity investment law case: charities have the discretion to exclude investments
- Apr 22, 2022 Annemarie Naylor: public goods, sovereign health fund, technology and future of justice | Podcast
- Apr 10, 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- Mar 21, 2022 Stian Westlake on the intangible economy, recession, stagnation, inequality, BS jobs and new institutions | Podcast
- Feb 28, 2022 Alec Stapp: policy for progress, under-researched areas, science of science, biosecurity | Podcast
- Feb 12, 2022 New Peleton CEO, management philosophy
- Feb 7, 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- Dec 4, 2021 Financial Reporting Council (FRC) on effective stewardship reporting
- Nov 22, 2021 Zeke Hausfather: state of climate science, energy systems, post COP26, tipping points, tail risks | Podcast
- Nov 8, 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- Nov 7, 2021 The Great Quitting, many industries are going to be hard hit
- Oct 22, 2021 UK government behavioural insights team secret report on NetZero
- Sep 19, 2021 Diane Coyle: Cogs and Monsters, book review
- Sep 11, 2021 Climate, political economy challenges
- Aug 31, 2021 Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP | podcast
- Jul 15, 2021 Matt Clancy on innovation studies, progress and remote work
- Jun 1, 2021 Ford's new EV truck, Lightning
- May 16, 2021 Tom Gosling on incentives, corporate purpose, netzero and happiness; Podcast
- May 7, 2021 How is the global energy transition going? Smil, JP Morgan
- Apr 9, 2021 Decline in poverty, debate
- Mar 27, 2021 Consumer green energy default choice is sticky
- Mar 14, 2021 NetZero framework, HSBC engagement
- Mar 9, 2021 Why 1857 French patent law made Basel wealthy and birthed Swiss Pharmaceuticals
- Feb 13, 2021 Finnish worker culture, no impact from board representation
- Feb 13, 2021 Theory of change, depression drugs, fossil fuel divestment
- Feb 1, 2021 Quick links: climate, circular economy, grief, china, spaced repetition
- Jan 10, 2021 Was 2020 a turning point year?
- Jan 7, 2021 Mark Carney: Markets, COVID, Climate, Reith lectures
- Nov 21, 2020 COVID, why so many are mostly wrong, or only a little correct.
- Sep 8, 2020 Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
- May 2, 2020 Taboo Cognition, Tetlock
- Apr 24, 2020 58 COVID predictions over the long-term
- Apr 24, 2020 Time to Build and why we are not…
- Apr 17, 2020 Grow The Pie, Alex Edmans, book review and webinar
- Apr 5, 2020 Michael Liebreich on climate post-COVID
- Mar 25, 2020 Policy Idea: Regulators Could Allow Early Use of COVID-19 Vaccine or Treatment
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, Policy: vaccine acceleration proposal, treatment accelration proposal
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, No impact seen on atmospheric CO2 in Q1 2020
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, brutal maths and counter-factuals
- Mar 13, 2020 COVID $1m+ in prizes
- Mar 5, 2020 Inequality as side effect, grow the pie
- Feb 20, 2020 Where did UK science go?
- Feb 20, 2020 Mission/Impact in private markets may have lower financial returns
- Feb 15, 2020 Mark Carney argues that low carbon growth is possible
- Feb 3, 2020 Quality of Government matters more than size of government for human development, education and life expectancy
- Jan 25, 2020 Oil CEOs meet to look at targeting carbon scope 3
- Jan 4, 2020 Brydon Review into UK Audit
- Jan 3, 2020 The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
- Dec 20, 2019 Science of progress, what is progress?
- Dec 3, 2019 Critique of GDP and carbon Tax, Vaclav Smil
- Oct 11, 2019 Dealing with email
- Sep 28, 2019 Goldman Sachs: climate change, Cities resilience
- Sep 14, 2019 ESG-linked pay, PRI session
- Aug 23, 2019 Primer: how to forecast
- Aug 22, 2019 Stakeholder Capitalism
- Aug 18, 2019 Analysis on oil, renewables, mobility and EVs, Mark Lewis.
- Jul 19, 2019 Ray Dalio: Paradigm Shift, Investing
- Jul 16, 2019 Life expectancy Race, child mortality and GDP
- Jul 13, 2019 Superforecasting tips and techniques
- Jun 29, 2019 Civic Honesty: Wallets with money more likely to handed back
- Jun 15, 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- Jun 14, 2019 Good UK Tax Design
- Jun 11, 2019 EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations
- May 25, 2019 The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades
- May 17, 2019 Absolute Mobility, Country Changes, contributions of growth and inequality
- May 17, 2019 Taleb on Dalio, Capitalism not broken - it's skin in the game
- May 11, 2019 A longitudinal look at inequality
- Apr 18, 2019 Carbon Tax, an assessment
- Apr 6, 2019 Ray Dalio on reforming capitalism
- Mar 31, 2019 Jobs, Stories of energy transition
- Mar 4, 2019 UK life expectancy and healthcare spend vs OECD. NHS success story?
- Feb 24, 2019 Univeral Basic Income, Finland experiment
- Feb 24, 2019 New Zealand looking at non-financial capitals, more than GDP
- Feb 19, 2019 Significant Major cross-discipline EAT-Lancet Commission paper on Sustainable Food
- Feb 10, 2019 Social science, Economics, replication study crisis
- Feb 6, 2019 Confronting inequality
- Jan 28, 2019 Long-term impacts of exposure to high temperatures on human capital
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Carbon
- Mar 1, 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- Aug 19, 2023 Chris Stark conversation at Chatham House June 2023
- Jun 16, 2023 Hedge Fund Carbon Accounting
- Feb 23, 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- Jun 26, 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- Jun 14, 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- May 7, 2022 UK Charity investment law case: charities have the discretion to exclude investments
- Apr 10, 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- Mar 27, 2022 Carbon Standards notes
- Feb 7, 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- Dec 11, 2021 Sustainability UnConference, notes and agenda
- Nov 22, 2021 Zeke Hausfather: state of climate science, energy systems, post COP26, tipping points, tail risks | Podcast
- Nov 8, 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- Oct 22, 2021 UK government behavioural insights team secret report on NetZero
- Sep 11, 2021 Climate, political economy challenges
- Jun 18, 2021 Latest UK climate change report
- Jun 1, 2021 Ford's new EV truck, Lightning
- May 7, 2021 How is the global energy transition going? Smil, JP Morgan
- Apr 9, 2021 EU netzero, Adam Tooze take
- Mar 27, 2021 Consumer green energy default choice is sticky
- Mar 18, 2021 What should UK innovation, ARIA, look at
- Feb 15, 2021 Bill Gates, Wired, on invest vs divest
- Feb 13, 2021 Theory of change, depression drugs, fossil fuel divestment
- Jul 26, 2020 Climate scenarios, worse case + best case unlikely
- Apr 5, 2020 Michael Liebreich on climate post-COVID
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, No impact seen on atmospheric CO2 in Q1 2020
- Feb 15, 2020 Mark Carney argues that low carbon growth is possible
- Feb 8, 2020 GHG Emissions, Sources and Activities, WRI latest
- Jan 25, 2020 Oil CEOs meet to look at targeting carbon scope 3
- Jan 23, 2020 Climate Change Commission, land use, UK
- Jan 23, 2020 Climate, cognitive strengths of Greta, Bill Gates, Chris Hohn
- Jan 3, 2020 The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
- Dec 3, 2019 Critique of GDP and carbon Tax, Vaclav Smil
- Oct 12, 2019 Upcycle Studios, Orestad; sustainable housing development, Lendager, NREP
- Sep 28, 2019 Goldman Sachs: climate change, Cities resilience
- Sep 25, 2019 Under-investment in Green Tech
- Sep 14, 2019 Shell CEO defending its climate policy alignment
- Aug 18, 2019 Analysis on oil, renewables, mobility and EVs, Mark Lewis.
- Jun 15, 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- Jun 14, 2019 Good UK Tax Design
- Jun 11, 2019 EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations
- Apr 18, 2019 Carbon Tax, an assessment
- Apr 13, 2019 Extinction Rebellion, a look inside
- Mar 31, 2019 Jobs, Stories of energy transition
- Mar 28, 2019 Recent Carbon Trends, IEA
- Feb 19, 2019 Significant Major cross-discipline EAT-Lancet Commission paper on Sustainable Food
- Feb 5, 2019 Germs killed 90% native americans c. 1500 causing re-forestation and mini ice age
- Jan 28, 2019 Long-term impacts of exposure to high temperatures on human capital
- Nov 21, 2018 Tyler Cowen: Vision of free, prosperous and responsible individuals
- Aug 29, 2018 Climate science 100 over years ago
- Jul 21, 2018 Slavery, climate change and patents - the commonalities.
- Jun 22, 2018 Divesting sectors. The impact on returns. Evidence that oil divestment may not impact returns.
- May 7, 2018 Rio sells coal, what about the planet?
- Sep 18, 2017 Nassim Taleb. Climate Change Risk.
- Sep 17, 2017 Bitcoin. Energy unsustainable.
- Sep 14, 2017 Climate Survey
- Aug 27, 2017 Exxon misled?
- Aug 14, 2017 Bank Sued on Climate Disclosure
- Aug 13, 2017 Free Carbon Model
- Aug 13, 2017 Drones Inspecting Environment
- Jul 19, 2017 Vaclav Smil, energy expert. Awesome.
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Health
- Oct 3, 2025 GLP 1 Receptor Agonists and the Future of Health, Economies and Food Systems
- Jun 30, 2023 UK Healthcare spend as % GDP since 1970 vs Germany, OECD
- Jan 11, 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- Jul 24, 2021 COVID, entering the end game as an endemic disease
- Mar 18, 2021 What should UK innovation, ARIA, look at
- Jan 13, 2021 Why is the vaccine rollout slow and what we could do
- Nov 21, 2020 COVID, why so many are mostly wrong, or only a little correct.
- Nov 14, 2020 COVID, England infection rate in late Oct 1.3%
- Nov 14, 2020 Vaccine hesitancy, UK (79%) would take vaccine
- Nov 1, 2020 COVID vaccines, timeline update
- Aug 28, 2020 COVID Vaccine coverage estimates
- Jul 26, 2020 UK all cause death below 5 year average
- May 24, 2020 What mindsets for investing markets can help with COVID thinking
- Apr 3, 2020 COVID, UK Critical care patient characteristics
- Mar 28, 2020 Covid. England, Notes from epidemiologist, Neil Ferguson.
- Mar 25, 2020 Policy Idea: Regulators Could Allow Early Use of COVID-19 Vaccine or Treatment
- Mar 17, 2020 COVID, UK Imperial College team, modelling scenarios
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, Policy: vaccine acceleration proposal, treatment accelration proposal
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, No impact seen on atmospheric CO2 in Q1 2020
- Mar 14, 2020 COVID, brutal maths and counter-factuals
- Mar 13, 2020 COVID $1m+ in prizes
- Mar 10, 2020 Why important to flatten COVID curve for healthcare capacity, England
- Mar 5, 2020 COVID, resources, notes, thoughts on present and future
- Feb 20, 2020 Where did UK science go?
- Feb 3, 2020 Quality of Government matters more than size of government for human development, education and life expectancy
- Dec 20, 2019 Science of progress, what is progress?
- Jul 16, 2019 Life expectancy Race, child mortality and GDP
- Jul 10, 2019 Life expectancy from 1800 to 2018
- Apr 6, 2019 Ray Dalio on reforming capitalism
- Mar 4, 2019 UK life expectancy and healthcare spend vs OECD. NHS success story?
- Feb 19, 2019 Significant Major cross-discipline EAT-Lancet Commission paper on Sustainable Food
- Jan 5, 2019 Impact Investing papers on return, healthcare over 200 years
- Sep 6, 2018 Cancer improvement rates, biomedical capital allocation
- Jun 7, 2018 The best time to be born is now
- Mar 17, 2018 Top selling Drugs
- Feb 10, 2018 Healthcare spend, US no consensus on health as a right
- Nov 22, 2017 Why are drug prices high?
- Nov 19, 2017 What a healthcare investment banking conference looks like
- Nov 18, 2017 Digital Pill. Schizophrenia drug.
- Nov 11, 2017 Top 3 Pharma concerns International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations
- Jul 24, 2017 Infant Mortality, SDG - what the data says
- Jul 19, 2017 Vaclav Smil, energy expert. Awesome.
- Jul 18, 2017 Infant Mortality, Slovakia catches up to US over 25 years.
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Leadership
- Feb 12, 2022 New Peleton CEO, management philosophy
- Sep 8, 2020 Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
- Jul 27, 2020 Elon Musk on dynastic wealth (against)
- May 24, 2020 What mindsets for investing markets can help with COVID thinking
- Jan 23, 2020 Climate, cognitive strengths of Greta, Bill Gates, Chris Hohn
- Oct 11, 2019 Dealing with email
- Sep 25, 2019 Leadership / WeWork
- Apr 26, 2019 Besos' Amazon shareowner letters, excerpt thoughts
- Apr 6, 2019 Ray Dalio on reforming capitalism
- Mar 3, 2019 IQ not useful for much...
- Aug 3, 2018 Postive R&D Culture, Hal Barron Thoughts
- Jun 23, 2018 Financial Reporting Advisory Group and Lab conference
- May 21, 2018 Elon Musk Productivity Tips
- May 7, 2018 Investing and Responsibility
- Jan 17, 2018 Blackrock CEO supports ESG and Long-Term in 2018 Letter
- Dec 20, 2017 Face-to-Face is better.
- Dec 20, 2017 Know thyself is not enough without change
- Dec 12, 2017 17% Women Board Directors in World
- Nov 5, 2017 Engage. Divest. Invest.
- Nov 1, 2017 Steve Jobs. Life lessons. Commencement.
- Oct 25, 2017 Organising email. My system.
- Oct 10, 2017 Principles. Ray Dalio.
- Sep 7, 2017 Communicating. Tesla.
- Aug 20, 2017 Success Secrets. 8 Words. 3 Minutes.
- Aug 1, 2017 Nassim Taleb. Commencement Address.
- Jul 29, 2017 Oglivy. Principles of Management.
- Jul 23, 2017 Team Work. What Google found.
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Podcast
- Apr 11, 2025 Samir Varma: Free Will, physics, traffic, bees, emotions, chaos theory, cricket, finance | Podcast
- Oct 18, 2024 Julia Garayo Willemyns: policy ideas, progress, growth, AI, Talent | Podcast
- Mar 1, 2024 Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, policy, technology | Podcast
- Feb 23, 2023 Chris Stark: 2023, climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, incentives | Podcast
- Jan 13, 2023 George Serafeim podcast transcript, Citywire with Algy Hall | Fix the Future
- Nov 2, 2022 Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing | Podcast
- Oct 9, 2022 Mark Koyama: How the World Became Rich, economic history, intangibles, culture, progress | podcast
- Sep 24, 2022 Jacob Soll: the history of free market ideas, Cicero, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Machievelli | Podcast
- Jul 21, 2022 Leigh Caldwell: cognitive economics, power of stories, how the mind consumes dreams and plans future actions | Podcast
- Jun 26, 2022 Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech investing, brown spinning, venture, sustainability | Podcast
- Jun 14, 2022 Ben Yeoh: CFA Institute Podcast, ESG, investing, progress | Matt Orsagh
- May 20, 2022 Carl Saxton-Pizzie: building a £30m sustainable grocery delivery company, mental health, sustainability | Podcast
- Apr 22, 2022 Annemarie Naylor: public goods, sovereign health fund, technology and future of justice | Podcast
- Mar 21, 2022 Stian Westlake on the intangible economy, recession, stagnation, inequality, BS jobs and new institutions | Podcast
- Feb 28, 2022 Alec Stapp: policy for progress, under-researched areas, science of science, biosecurity | Podcast
- Feb 7, 2022 Chris Stark: CEO climate change committee, NetZero policy, adaptation, COP, fairness, behaviour change | Podcast
- Jan 11, 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- Nov 22, 2021 Zeke Hausfather: state of climate science, energy systems, post COP26, tipping points, tail risks | Podcast
- Nov 8, 2021 Jason Mitchell on Poetry, Sustainable Investing, Regulation, Carbon Tax, Activism, Stakeholder Capitalism | Podcast
- Aug 31, 2021 Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP | podcast
- Jul 25, 2021 Catherine Howarth on shareholder activism, growing back better and change makers | Podcast
- Jul 15, 2021 Matt Clancy on innovation studies, progress and remote work
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Regulation
- Aug 19, 2023 Chris Stark conversation at Chatham House June 2023
- May 28, 2022 The US SEC has proposed two ESG rules for asset managers.
- Apr 10, 2022 Why consider supporting SEC climate disclosures
- Mar 27, 2022 Carbon Standards notes
- Jan 11, 2022 David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine | Podcast
- Jul 31, 2019 Government Clean Tech R&D spend
- Jun 15, 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- Jul 14, 2018 Regulatory Compass, Financial Purpose report
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Arts
- Apr 11, 2025 Samir Varma: Free Will, physics, traffic, bees, emotions, chaos theory, cricket, finance | Podcast
- May 14, 2024 Rasheed Griffith: Progress, Caribbean, policy, food, music, talent assessment, culture | Podcast
- Nov 7, 2021 The Great Quitting, many industries are going to be hard hit
- Jan 10, 2021 Was 2020 a turning point year?
- Jun 15, 2019 Sustainability: Resources and ideas behind Thinking Bigly
- May 28, 2018 Amber Massie-Blomfield: A love letter to Britain’s Theatres
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Summary
- Feb 1, 2021 Quick links: climate, circular economy, grief, china, spaced repetition
- Aug 5, 2017 Summary so far...