An ode to the pond
It’s March 2022 at the Highgate Men’s Pond.
Max Bray
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The year it got hot
I roll over in bed in London. It’s 3.30am and still 25 degrees outside. The air in the room is a least a few degrees hotter – thick, heavy, claustrophobic.
The Sovereignty Stack
For a middle-sized nation, backing winners in critical industries is no longer optional
The great unbundling of higher education
Universities are broken. A hacker hotel in Helsinki shows what might come next.
Let's all be more Unreasonable
I launched a podcast where we talk ambition, meaning, manifestation and getting a lot of things done very very quickly
Building a nation of entrepreneurs
How we supercharge UK ambition from the bottom up
Welcome to the polycrisis
Prediction markets: in equal part terrifying and fascinating
Let's get critical
Can technology save mining?
Shifting Demographics
Old powers decline, the Global South keeps growing, the climate is changing, and I'm just trying to invest in start-ups
We need to talk about Venture Capital
It’s not working like it used to, but no one’s really talking about it
The content is the message
Live experiences in the age of being Extremely Online
Spiky people: models for thinking about investing in founders
Trying to open source my decision making process (pt.2)
Tall poppies
On the British culture of cutting ourselves down, and how this is hurting us all
Why do all cities now feel the same?
Quietly raging against the speciality coffee shop, from Kyoto to Kensington
So we have nuclear fusion, now what? ☢️
Three scenarios for when we hit working fusion: first of a kind -> scale -> abundance
Fusion confusion: trying to make sense of a big, complex problem
A guy with a history degree pontificates on maybe the most challenging science & engineering problem of this century
Ordering Magnitude: models for thinking about investing in start-ups
Trying to open source my decision making process
🌎 Earth: a deep dive on our thesis
Earth as a fund - what businesses excite us, where we're investing, and how we think about our thesis, six months into the journey.
On In-Person Communities
Bye-bye lonely online life, hello new-found sense of belonging 🤝
Down and dirty in Davos: learnings from a novice
Part informative, part reflective. Thoughts on a week licking the corporate toad in the Swiss alps 🐸.