01 Archive // Writing

Articles, essays
& reviews

Long-form thinking on startups, capital and policy, plus book reviews distilled into an executive summary and a list of B>llets.

F-009

Essay2024.02.063 min

Sophisticated Investor changes a blow to Aussie Innovation

The use of a deeply flawed asset test which does not truly measure an investor's financial sophistication has created a flawed market dynamic

Open file

F-008

Book review2023.01.031 min

Homo Deus

by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus is the sequal to Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and is a projection of the many divergent paths that humanity may take in the near future.

Open file

F-007

Book review2020.10.123 min

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

by Jim Paul & Brendan Moynihan

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars, charts the rise and fall of self-confessed lucky man Jim Paul (1943–2001) from his early life as a farm boy in Kentucky to the Governor of the Chicago…

Open file

F-006

Book review2020.09.303 min

Elon Musk

by Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk, is a biography of the eponymous eccentric industrialist up to 2015. The book chronicles his early life, business success and challenges that he has surmounted to build Tesla and SpaceX…

Open file

F-005

Book review2020.09.282 min

Dealing With China

by Henry M. Paulson Jr

Dealing With China by former US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. is a narrative retelling of Mr Paulson's history of working with China during his time with both Goldman Sachs and later as…

Open file

F-004

Book review2020.09.232 min

The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT), is book two in his five volume series called Incerto, which also includes including Fooled by Randomness, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, and Skin…

Open file

F-003

Book review2020.09.192 min

The $100 Startup

by Chris Guillebeau

The $100 Startup is fundamentally a lifestyle business start up guide in a similar vein to The Four-hour Work Week by Tim Ferris.

Open file

F-002

Book review2020.09.152 min

Principles

by Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio grew Bridgewater Associates from a small two person operation in his bedroom one of the worlds premier fund managers. Rather than purely a narrative history, "Principles" focuses on the…

Open file