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What a conflict‑windfall certification can achieve, how it differs from ESG, and why proliferation of such schemes is the only way to hold power accountable 0. The Certification Question The war‑windfall and harm‑windfall protocols described in the previous posts are governance tools. But tools left on a workbench change nothing. A fund may adopt a…
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A scalable, third‑party certification scheme for investors and portfolio companies that neutralise profit from intentional destruction – modelled on Fair Trade, B Corp, and organic certification 0. The Scaling Problem The war‑windfall and harm‑windfall protocols are governance tools for individual funds. But LPs cannot easily verify which funds have adopted them. GPs cannot easily signal…
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A generic framework for investors who refuse to profit from intentional or grossly negligent destruction – extended beyond armed conflict 0. The Precedent The war‑windfall protocol established a principled trigger: if a portfolio company profits from contracts intended to cause harm or kill during active conflict, the incremental gain is ring‑fenced and neutralised. A standalone…
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A framework for investors who refuse to profit from armed conflict – with an intent‑based trigger and a sanctions failsafe 1. The Investor’s Dilemma You are a GP. Your fund backed a satellite imaging startup built for flood monitoring. Then a war broke out. The startup’s revenue tripled – partly from humanitarian agencies tracking refugees,…
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A governance and capital allocation model for dual‑use technology startups 1. Problem Statement: Dual‑Use Inevitability Modern infrastructure technologies are intrinsically dual‑use. A satellite imaging system designed to monitor crop health can locate a tank column. An industrial IoT network built for predictive maintenance can relay coordinates for a precision strike. A cloud platform optimised for…
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Or: How oversensitivity, hair‑trigger interpretations, and vibe‑based accusations prepare the ground for the next moral panic 0. The Sequence Every witch‑hunt follows a predictable arc. It does not emerge from nowhere. It is prepared by an earlier phase – a period of oversensitivity, overreach, and hair‑trigger interpretations. That phase softens the ground. It erodes the…
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The code is free. The weights are downloadable. You can run Llama 4 on a laptop, fine‑tune Mistral on a single GPU, and spin up a chatbot using nothing but open‑source libraries. And yet, some of the most valuable companies in AI are not the ones building the models. They are the ones building the…
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Palantir is the stock market’s darling. Its platforms power the CIA, the NHS, and some of the world’s largest corporations. Its ontology is a thing of beauty – for those who can afford it. But beneath the glossy dashboard lies a model built on vendor lock‑in, opaque black‑box algorithms, and a growing catalogue of human‑rights…
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You have cleaned up your diet. You walk, lift, season and supplement with intention. You eat your roots, your brassicas, your fruits, your algae, your fermented foods and your resistant starch. You know which minerals matter and which pills are a waste of money. But there is one branch of your nervous system that you…
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The old separation of powers – executive, legislative, judiciary – was a brilliant invention of the Enlightenment. But it was designed for a world where knowledge was scarce, communication was slow, and the church and the crown were the only institutions with reach. Today, we have universities that generate knowledge at an unprecedented scale, scientific…