China venture ecosystem is F'd VC's are hounding failed founders, pursuing personal assets and adding them to the national debtor blacklist It's brutal - they can't start another business, fly, take trains, stay in hotels or leave China

Everyone is a migrant just different time horizons of migration - all originally East African (I believe) with slightly variant journeys to our current place..

Trees as infrastructure: the experience of Stuttgart mayorsofeurope.eu/science-and-th…

I don't see why not tbh.

How to miss the traditional first episode of the year on The Deep Dive, where host Philip McKenzie sits down with our longtime shared friend Indy Johar for a sweeping conversation about how politics, technology, and the economics of “value” are transforming our world. In the

One of the many useful diagrams in Leo Quattrucci's new paper on how to fix procurement in the age of AI tial.org/publications/a…

This is massive

Shanghai Fashion Week, 2025. Robotics are being rapidly intergraded into the social fabric in China as per the 2027 plan. The US, we are burning them.

Indy Johar launched his personal Substack (you may want to subscribe to it). In one of his first pieces, he explores the interplay between infrastructural, enabling layers, and optionality, nailing down a key dynamic, much like what we often see when operating in organizations

🚨 Extreme Heat waves across India and Pakistan, with some areas nearing 50°C this weekend. People are being told to stay indoors unless necessary. The India Met Dept. warns this year may be even hotter than the last. The warming planet is threatening habitability in this region.

The Santa Fe Institute is now accepting applications for the 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships! Complexity fellows contribute to SFI’s research and collaborate with leading researchers worldwide. If you recently completed your PhD in any scientific discipline and are

1. London is getting safer Knife crime is lower now than in 2016. The murder rate fell 28% from 2019 to 2023. In fact, you’re less likely to experience crime in London than you are nationally.

2. London’s air is cleaner Ulez helped achieve: • 54% less NO2 in central London • Cleaner air at 99% of monitoring sites vs 2019 • Air quality improving faster than rest of England

3. It’s easier to get around London • Lizzy line boosted central London rail capacity by 10% • Superloop added 6m km of new bus routes • 5x more protected cycle lanes since 2016

4. London has more opportunities The city has the highest concentration of high-skilled jobs in the UK. And it’s the best place to escape poverty. The top 20 constituencies in the Sutton Trust’s social mobility index are all in London.

5. London is a diversity success story • Over 300 languages spoken • 46% BAME population • And still no ‘no-go zones’(!) Combine these 5 facts and you get…

6. A booming economic powerhouse A multicultural workforce travelling on modern public transport to their high-skilled jobs. It’s no wonder productivity is 28.5% higher than the UK average.

Ex-Alibaba CTO just made the boldest claim about AI & global power: “China is building the future of AI, not Silicon Valley.” He also revealed why AI by 2030 will look nothing like ChatGPT and how China’s approach is already decades ahead. Here are my top 7 takeaways: 🧵

We noticed many struggle to keep up with the flood of acronyms & terms in modern org design. So, we created a Glossary of Platform Organization to make it simple. Master key concepts like ecosystems, modularity & agentic teams → build AI-ready orgs. Read here 👉

July 2025 in Japan was extraordinarily hot: almost +3C vs 1991/2020 average and by far the hottest July in history. This follows the hottest June in history. The pace of the heat in the past 3 summers vs. anything seen before is staggering,shocking..