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One interesting insight I had from a listener: "I have small children, I can't sit and read a newsletter, but I can listen to your podcast!"

Hear hear! Downside is I'm now waiting on a contract and signed mutual NDA before I can invoice .... being a grown-up is just a lot of paperwork, ya know

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Keep thinking of a quote by Brian Cox's Logan Roy in 'Succession' when his back's against the wall:

"We have to ACT upon the world!"

I cannot stand the fact that, as a self-employed person, I manually have to transfer money to the IRS each quarter, knowing it will be used by a dictator to bomb other countries. Just another reason to get the heck outta here

Will this make me more jealous of your coffee adventures?

the ninja turtles and the power rangers putting aside their differences and teaming up

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

25 minutes! Skills!

At the same time, the extent of the Washington Post layoffs highlight how it didn't matter how hardworking, loyal, smart, collaborative, award-winning, competitive, knowledgeable and devoted so many of the staff were. It wasn't enough to prevent being laid off by one of the richest men in the world.

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I need everyone to see the video that radicalized me. The video I talked about in the Atlantic interview.

AI Analysis Reveals Corporates' Extreme Weather Costs, UK Warns of Biodiversity Loss Threat to National Security, Canada's 'Adaptech' Market, and More PLUS: EU puts adaptation costs at €70bn each year, National Science Foundation consults on changes to US climate research hub, Fathom releases terrain dataset

AI Analysis Reveals Corporates' Extreme Weather Costs, UK Warns of Biodiversity Loss Threat to National Security, Canada's 'Adaptech' Market, and More

hate to see Bezos run the Post into the ground. but you can support billionaire free DC News:

@51st.news
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
@washingtoninformer.com
@wcp.bsky.social
@ethiopique202.bsky.social

The idea that the British Raj respected the rule of law is legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever read in my entire life

The UN’s New Adaptation Metrics Need Eyes in the Sky Space-based data may be the key to bringing adaptation indicators to life — if Earth Observation businesses can make this commercially viable

The UN’s New Adaptation Metrics Need Eyes in the Sky

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

"Collective investments in resilience are cheaper than everyone building their own fortress. Shared standards reduce fragmentation. Complementarities are positive sum."

Lessons for geopolitics, lessons for responding to climate change, here: paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Delivering a keynote on geospatial risk and climate adaptation later this week, and just added a “The World’s Gone Mad And I’m Sorry This Speech Isn’t About Greenland’ topper.

Worried all I have to say is completely irrelevant to the times. Ah well, nevertheless.

what I really like about the way he frames this speech is that he doesn't naively describe the old international order as one without inequities or with wholly fair application of the rule of law, but as one where the gains were worth accepting those gaps

Danish Pension Fund AkademikerPension to Exit US Treasuries The Danish pension fund AkademikerPension is planning to exit US Treasuries by the end of the month, amid concerns that the policies of President Donald Trump have created credit risks too big to igno...

A symbolic move, certainly. But symbols have power
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social

The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

For me, understanding *just how much time* I have to put into business development was the biggest hurdle. Has made me massively appreciate the struggles of sales folks, too.

Is California's Wildfire Bond A Missed Opportunity? FAIR Plan’s $750mn deal signals surging investor appetite for climate risk — but critics say it could have gone further

California’s insurer-of-last-resort has just pulled off a Wall Street first.

In December, the state’s FAIR Plan Association locked in US$750mn of reinsurance protection through a catastrophe bond.

But critics say the insurance pool missed a trick.

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2025's Extreme Weather Toll, Trump's Attack on US Climate Hub, ZestyAI Tapped by TruStage PLUS: Global Environment Facility greenlights $52mn of adaptation funds, Hawaii climate resilience tax blocked, HEN Technologies raises $22mn for fire suppression innovation

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Great post, Lex -- really helped me out of "news paralysis zombie" mode

I write better than I speak ... that's why I write for a living!