Tom White

feedback loop is very fast in retail, but for a brief period, Tyco was experiencing huge demand for their product despite end consumer demand that was no longer there.

Forward Deployed Engineers were pioneered by Palantir: instead of throwing software over the wall and hoping for adoption, you put engineers on the ground who understand the customer’s problems and can bridge the gap between what the product does and what the customer needs.

It’s been copied across the industry. And it works.

But I wonder if we’ve... See more

For myself, the medium of wonder has often been poetry. As I recently confessed to my friend Miroslav Volf, “I wouldn’t even be a religious person were it not for poetry, which has not only repeatedly brought me into contact with an other, but has seemed to demand something of me in its wake . . . But poetry remains perpetually open. God moves... See more

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. People who go in for that kind of thing must take the consequences.

death by procedure. The modern way of declaring something wrong without ever admitting it or giving it attention.

When you train people to look steadily at what’s beautiful, you’re telling them that some things are worth revering. And once reverence enters, relativism doesn’t stand a chance.

International opportunities remain vast for those brave few willing to expand beyond local borders and limited markets. Put simply, it’s what the “Smart Money” is doing. Data shows that larger market participants such as QED have shifted their focus more on markets outside the US in recent years.Given this international opportunity, deal flow and... See more