Collision Detector

Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before.

I’ve always been a big fan of FT/Alphaville — as evidenced by once inhabiting a telepresence bot at their summer event a decade back and heckling a transhumanist speaker from within my temporary technological body, all the way from Manchester, after which…

Collision Detector has picked up speed this year, and a few things have been added or rewired along the way.

Everywhere you turn in recent years, there's a mini-cult of something.

California-born author John Steinbeck never wrote the line everyone hangs on him.

The World Cup that kicked off this week in North America is the most instrumented sporting event ever staged.

This week SpaceX prices the largest IPO in history — $75 billion, on a company whose AI unit burned nearly $8 billion last quarter.

I've noted recently, in the context of a workshop in Malmö, that I'm a devoted consumer of procedural crime drama — the Scandinavian kind especially, where the investigation is as much about institutional failure as individual wrongdoing.

This is the fifth in a series on risk-maxxing.

This is the fourth in a series on risk-maxxing.

I was finishing this piece when Kyla Scanlon's "Why My Generation Is Turning to Financial Nihilism" dropped in the Wall Street Journal.

This is the second in a series on risk-maxxing.

"The FT does this lighthearted thing every year where we have a stock-picking competition.

Everyone needs a hobby, and lately I’ve been designing games, partly out of interest in decision-making in uncertainty, and partly to get back to something I enjoyed as a teen, writing adventure games on early PCs to entertain friends.