Building an Investment Career the Right Way: The power of growing goodwill. My contention in this talk is that most successful people – whether they are investors, or in other walks of life, are less focussed on the money, or success itself and more focused...
Introduction and Health Warning I wrote this short discussion paper during my internship with Guy Spier at Aquamarine Capital. I am no expert in artificial intelligence. But as a second year Natural Sciences student at Cambridge University in the UK, I have had some...
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi Introduction I don’t have many original ideas, and this essay isn’t one of them. I’ve always tried to synthesize the best ideas from other people, and over the past few years, I have...
This white paper emerges from conversations that I have been having on longevity with Guy Spier, Maya Elhalal and others. It presents my current thinking on this topic. While it’s pretty clear to me that I and others will most likely live for 1,000 years or more, my...
“We live at the end of the information age.” – a bold statement – starkly at odds with the zeitgeist but apparently justified. The real value is not in information but in how we acquire and analyse it, in “Recognising that I may be wrong.”. As the...