Blockchains and Banks

As we worked with Eris Industries in the Anthemis Foundry, we came across the conundrum concerning blockchains: Bitcoin bundled together various existing technologies in a unique fashion to create something genuinely new — an almost unhackable, replicated database with no master server…

Ideas Are Not Worth Nothing

A bad idea beautifully executed is worth nothing. Ideas are as important as execution and you usually need both, unless you are Einstein.

Civilization is build on ideas. I doubt Einstein could have put up a shelf, but he changed the word with thought…

Balance Sheets & Digital Era Businesses.

Anthemis Venture Design. Pillar 2: New Routes to customers.

[This is the second of three essays that explain the process of Venture Design at the Anthemis Foundry, where we help create digital…

The UI of Income Tax

I like looking for trivial things that have profound consequences when they are redesigned to make things clearer. One of these quirks exists in the way taxes are thought of and represented. A form of poor everyday ‘user interface’ design, it creates confusion and doesn’t allow instant…

A Front End Design Stack

Although most of what I do is business design (designing businesses and processes i.e. being an entrepreneur, on demand), inevitably this involves some front end web design, these are the tools, tips and elements I use for UX.

Venture Design and the Anthemis Foundry.

The importance of ecosystems above all, and first steps to…