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...
Professor Chris Chabris has a new book coming out: Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It – co-authored authored with Dan Simons. It’s their first book since “The Invisible Gorilla” which was published 13 years ago! Chabris tells me...
Congratulations to Director Bryan Vogel for his movie The Dissident – which tells the story of gruesome murder of Jamal Kashoggi. Part of that story is that Jeff Bezos got his phone hacked probably with the use of Pegasus which is software made by an Israeli...
Introduction a refreshing conversation with Guy Spier during my internship at Aquamarine Capital, we discussed what it is I would like to write my white paper about. With relatively little discussion on the direction of the paper, the overarching theme was “I want to...
