Things I’m thinking about and trying to understand…
The Human Stake in Accelerating Discovery
AI can accelerate discovery without making humans irrelevant—but only if we deliberately remain inside the feedback loop.
A Real Measure of UK Startup Success: Getting to the starting line
Starting a company is cheap. Becoming able to actually work on one isn't.
The Macmillan Gap: How SEIS Might Be Recreating the Problem It Was Meant to Solve
Why the same economics that created Britain's small-business funding gap may now be distorting the scheme intended to fix it.
My love hate relationship with UK (S)EIS reliefs
We're using tax policy to mandate inferior and restrictive capital structures at precisely the moment when companies need maximum flexibility.
“The honest guide to startups — the one every first-time founder wishes they’d read before getting started.”
- Vanela Bushi, Entrepreneur & VC (founder H-Tree Capital)
"Honest at the scale most founders actually experience. Relatable at every stage of the sufferfest, and pragmatic because he's lived the whole arc himself."
- Jacqueline Gilbert, Serial Entrepreneur
