Guy Spier will dine with the winning bidder and up to seven friends on a mutually agreed date. WHERE/WHEN: Anywhere in Zurich, Switzerland, or London, UK, on a mutually agreeable date or any other mutually agreeable location and date. 100% of the proceeds from the...
In the early 2000s, the California energy market went into a crisis. Early in 2000, energy prices spiked. And then blackouts started. During a heatwave in the summer of 2000, 97,000 homes were blacked out. In 2001, following blackouts that affected hundreds of...
I have been humbled by how tragedy is never far away – no matter how good our lives are. Take Quadriplegia: Around two and a half years ago, a classmate from Harvard Business School fell in her apartment. In a freak of bad luck, she broke her C4 vertebra...
This letter by Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe found its way to my WhatsApp in the aftermath of the October 7th massacres by Hamas in the south of Israel. His words are as poignant now as they were then. A Letter to My Non-Jewish Friends, Dear Friends, Please forgive me...
https://www.librarything.com/work/28001985 Vaclav Smil has already written about how foundational technologies like steel, concrete, plastics, and fertilizers underpin our civilization; without these, we would regress thousands of years. Add microchips to this list, a...
I’ve been asked the question why I don’t invest in Israeli companies, given my connections to Israel: Half my family is there, my father was born there, I have an Israeli passport, I lived there, I speak very bad Hebrew. And I think that it’s...
