Turning flows into stocks — I’ve written a newsletter, called Exponential View for the past few years. EV, as we call it, is a curated newsletter, a combination of links constructed in a narrative and against a set of theses. People really seem to love it. I thought I’d share how it comes together. The…

Scaling companies 101 — A fast changing world, driven by staggering breakthroughs and new fissures opening up. Can we make sense of patterns of change across the globe during this time of exponential technology? Every week, I speak to some of the most brilliant minds building, investing in or analysing the near future. Subscribe…

The entire Chinese life has become digitally-injected in a way not imaginable in the US or Europe — A fast changing world, driven by staggering breakthroughs and new fissures opening up. Can we make sense of patterns of change across the globe during this time of exponential technology? In this weekly series, I speak to some of the most brilliant minds building, investing in or analysing the near…

Lessons in going big, yet remaining focused — Every week I speak to some of the most brilliant minds building, investing in or analysing the near future. I will be publishing notes from these conversations regularly. To stay in touch for good, sign up to my email newsletter. I was lucky to speak with Kai-Fu Le, a Chinese…

The terms “hard skills” and “soft skills” are problematic. — Jeff Wiener, the boss of LinkedIn, says that computers are not going to be taking all our jobs quite yet. “We’re still a ways away from computers being able to replicate and replace human interaction and human touch.” The result? Most in-demand, according to Wiener, are the so-called “soft skills”…

The EU Parliament seems not to understand the 29-year-old World Wide Web — Last week’s vote in the European Parliament on the EU Copyright Directive will create enormous new rights for news publishers, and turn the clock back on how the internet works. Some key implications: Article 11 was intended to allow publishers to make money when online platforms link to their stories…

I wanted to share four power tools I have been using for the past months, in some cases years. This is a short selection of things I use that save me time managing my various commitments. VoxSciences — voxsci.com — converts voicemail to text and emails. Costs £5 per month…

“Data is seldom just about us. Society should benefit from it too.” — I’ve been lucky enough to get to know the work of Jeni Tennison and The Open Data Institute a little during the past year or so. They are thinking very deeply about how to build trusted institutions and systems around data. I believe this is vital work. A world where…

Governments must step in to regulate platforms — or workers will lose it all — This week, I invited the co-founder and director of The Family, a pan-European investment firm, Nicolas Colin, and writer and speaker on the future of work and consumption, Laetitia Vitaud, to guest-curate my weekly newsletter Exponential View. Laetitia wrote one of my favourite pieces of the last couple of years…