“The reconciliation of the infinitesimally small and the infinitely large. It is this secret that intrigued the Italians, and that always eluded them.”

How US commercial insurance is broked.

Quizbook is not about answering questions.
Quizbook is politics.

"You can't hold it against a man for possessing and being possessed by all the component and conflicting parts of being a genius. It's just that sometimes it is difficult for mortals to live with.”

Enron tried to financialise memory.
Why didn’t they succeed?

“It is generally ill-advised to say 'never' and I'm pleased for you that your grafting has got you to where you wanted to be.”

“I will never tell Neymar what to do in a certain close space, because he will find a solution I never dreamed of.”

Boris Johnson once said that his policy on cake was pro having it and pro eating it; some businesses get to do this.

“Had he thought out his ideas beforehand, he could not have been so natural in his behaviour.”

A (the?) main move in insurance goes like this:

Luke Combs, Omar Baba, and the quest for authenticity.

“You need a non-zero probability that you can rearrange the world around your will.”

AdMob refreshes, and how we built our software company.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

Vercingetorix, Orientalism, and the quest for originality.

Medieval legal reforms, and the coniuratio of William Malebisse

CS Lewis, Richard Feynman, Palmer Luckey, Alex Danco.

State Farm, and the greatest founder you’ve never heard of.

What I talk about when I talk about mobile ads.

Marginal utility and downside risk.