# model thinking (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover model thinking. Page: Feed: --- ## [An ode to the pond](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/an-ode-to-the-pond) _2026-08-09 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ It’s March 2022 at the Highgate Men’s Pond. ## [The year it got hot](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/the-year-it-got-hot) _2026-07-28 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ 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. ## [Reverse interviews](https://kieranpotts.com/thoughts/reverse-interviews.html) _2026-06-24 · Kieran Potts_ An interview is a two-way process. Here is the set of "reverse interview" questions I use to assess the real quality of a software job — the red and green flags that reveal what a place is actually like to work at. ## [The Sovereignty Stack](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/the-sovereignty-stack) _2026-05-27 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ For a middle-sized nation, backing winners in critical industries is no longer optional ## [The great unbundling of higher education](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/the-great-unbundling-of-higher-education) _2026-05-19 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Universities are broken. A hacker hotel in Helsinki shows what might come next. ## [Let's all be more Unreasonable](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/lets-all-be-more-unreasonable) _2026-04-30 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ 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](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/building-a-nation-of-builders) _2026-03-11 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ How we supercharge UK ambition from the bottom up ## [Welcome to the polycrisis](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/welcome-to-the-polycrisis) _2026-01-17 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Prediction markets: in equal part terrifying and fascinating ## [Let's get critical](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/lets-get-critical) _2026-01-13 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Can technology save mining? ## [The Mythical Man-Month at 50](https://kieranpotts.com/thoughts/mythical-man-month-50.html) _2025-12-28 · Kieran Potts_ Fred Brooks's classic book The Mythical Man-Month was published 50 years ago. It was hugely influential on the then-nascent discipline of software development. How does it stand up today? ## [Open-source Screen Sharing with Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iC382xUIqtYv) _2025-12-27 · **Sponsored**_ WebRTC screen sharing with simultaneous mouse & keyboard control; viewers join in browser. ## [Shifting Demographics](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/shifting-demographics) _2025-12-10 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ 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](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/we-need-to-talk-about-venture-capital) _2025-11-12 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ It’s not working like it used to, but no one’s really talking about it ## [The content is the message](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/the-content-is-the-message) _2025-11-11 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Live experiences in the age of being Extremely Online ## [Spiky people: models for thinking about investing in founders](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/spiky-people) _2025-10-21 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Trying to open source my decision making process (pt.2) ## [Tall poppies](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/tall-poppies) _2025-10-14 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ On the British culture of cutting ourselves down, and how this is hurting us all ## [The (software) quality without a name](https://kieranpotts.com/thoughts/the-quality-without-a-name.html) _2025-10-05 · Kieran Potts_ The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander is a classic text on real-world architecture. In computing, it was influential in the emerging field of object-oriented programming in the late 1970s and 1980s. The book still has much to teach us about how we think about software design. ## [Why do all cities now feel the same?](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/all-cities-feel-the-same) _2025-09-30 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Quietly raging against the speciality coffee shop, from Kyoto to Kensington ## [So we have nuclear fusion, now what? ☢️](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/so-we-have-nuclear-fusion-now-what) _2025-09-23 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ 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](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/fusion-confusion-trying-to-make-sense) _2025-09-10 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ 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](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/ordering-magnitude-models-for-thinking) _2025-09-06 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Trying to open source my decision making process ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xq7LJnpgXjZd) _2025-09-06 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [PHP is 30](https://kieranpotts.com/thoughts/php-is-30.html) _2025-06-08 · Kieran Potts_ PHP version 1.0 was announced on 8 June 1995. It quickly became a popular server-side scripting language for websites. Here's why. ## [🌎 Earth: a deep dive on our thesis](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/earth-a-deep-dive-on-our-thesis) _2025-05-15 · Max Bray_ 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](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/on-in-person-communities) _2025-03-20 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Bye-bye lonely online life, hello new-found sense of belonging 🤝 ## [Down and dirty in Davos: learnings from a novice](https://stack.maxbray.xyz/p/down-and-dirty-in-davos-learnings) _2025-01-27 · Max Bray · Max Bray_ Part informative, part reflective. Thoughts on a week licking the corporate toad in the Swiss alps 🐸. ## [Mental models: essential versus accidental complexity](https://kieranpotts.com/thoughts/essential-versus-accidental-complexity.html) _2024-12-07 · Kieran Potts_ A mental model for thinking about the relative importance of essential and accidental complexity. ## [30 years of cybercafés](https://kieranpotts.com/thoughts/30-years-of-cybercafes.html) _2024-09-01 · Kieran Potts_ Cyberia, thought to be the world's first commercially successful internet café, opened in London on 1 September 1994.