Sublime

An inspiration engine for ideas

AllPeopleCollectionsArticlesAudioBooksFilesHighlightsImagesLinksNotesTextTweetsVideosSocial

Embracing Paradox

Exploring the balance between opposing principles in investment, such as trust versus skepticism, patience versus urgency, and transparency versus confidentiality, emphasizing the importance of harmony in decision-making.

static1.squarespace.com

a system where there were no incentives for people to reduce their solid waste to one where there are such incentives. The technical name for this approach is unit pricing.

Barry Field • Environmental Economics, An Introduction, 2024 Release

More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Volatility Swaps

Explores volatility and variance swaps, their properties, uses for trading and hedging volatility exposure, and methods for replication and valuation using options, while addressing practical challenges and implications of volatility skews.

emanuelderman.com

Conserving financial resources.

Donald Miller • Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Thank you @FERChatterjee and @FERC for convening this discussion. Ultimately an economy wide price on CO2 is the most efficient way to reduce emissions. We have a lot of work to do to decarbonize. We must seek out efficiency and affordability. Here is what we have now: https://t.co/Jw6M4r773a

Paul Segal

x.com

under 2,000 pounds and under $2,000”—were

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

The limited remit and strength of international governance create severe bounds on the ability to provide transnational public goods through voting and deliberation, but the almighty dollar (and yuan) is respected in most corners of the planet. Capital flows and the technology it is invested in shape lives around the world.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Each quarter we try to study an admirable company and discuss it with our Operating Group managers and board members. We focus on high performance conglomerates that have demonstrated at least a decade of superior shareholder returns.

Ryan • Mark Leonard Letters

the first scenario, the countries of the OECD implement a uniform carbon tax such that the net present value (NPV) of the abatement cost equals $2 trillion, the NPV of $250 billion per year for ten years. The discount rate is 5% per year. Costs are discounted to 2009. This is achieved by a carbon tax of $700/tC, starting in 2010 and rising with the