Felix Stocker

California’s approach to insurance regulation, which dates back to Proposition 103 in 1988, is both egregiously bad and greatly under-discussed.

For a hundred years, consulting firms have focused on one-off projects to implement new technologies and organisational structures.

Molly Bloom played her game all wrong.

Last week, we published ai-transformation.fyi - an assessment of the major global private equity firms, and how we think their portfolio will fare in the context of AI.

Mobile apps gained attention and user adoption before they figured out how to monetise, but in the end the revenue model was simple: as Mark Zuckerberg said to Orrin Hatch in 2018, “Senator, we run ads.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Case For Reparations explains that racial differences in America are the product of systematic economic exclusion and exploitation, from slavery and Reconstruction to Jim Crow and redlining.

Since Orosius’s fifth-century History Against the Pagans, thinkers from Hegel to Marx have viewed history as an ineluctable progression of stages.

When I read American Psycho in preparation for a course on neoliberalism that I never took, I couldn't finish it - it was too fucked up.

San Francisco’s nineteenth-century founders built their city at Chrysopylae by exploiting natural resources.

Goethe’s Faust is a Greek tragedy wrought from Germanic myth, Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Arabian Nights.

I don’t think I’ve ever told my younger siblings off for not working hard enough.

I was in Bombay recently, at the same time as Independence Day, Dahi Handi, and an extraordinary monsoon.

In Extreme Ownership, a few utter maniacs give visceral advice gleaned from vicious firefights in a scorching desert to… middle managers in corporate America.

In 209 BC, Chen Shen was ordered to lead 900 soldiers to Yuyang, near present-day Beijing, to help defend the northern border against Xiongnu.

Christopher D.

I wrote this piece on the cyber insurance company Coalition in June and July 2024, but I’m only publishing it in December.

In this essay, I’ll talk about some startups that I like and why I like them.

Before Doordash, Uber, Deliveroo and Postmates, there was FedEx.

Apparently, it’s brat summer.

“What in the world is most mispriced?”