Category: Non-business

Disclaimer: We are invested in Volvere. While this post isn’t really related to the business, assume I am biased when talking about it and form your own judgements. Volvere today announced the death of their CEO, Jonathan Lander: The announcement hit me hard. I do not want to pretend that I knew him better than I do. I probably met Jonathan 10 times over the last five years, but he left an impression on me. We are invested in Volvere – indeed, we are one of the biggest investors in Volvere – in large part thanks to my opinion of …

I’m writing this primarily because I want a marker in the ground that I can look back on in the coming years. I want to have written something public in the moment. I wrote a letter to my MP on Friday. She is a Liberal Democrat, which seems a delicious irony for a politician supporting policies that are neither Liberal nor Democratic. I told her that I thought our politicians should trust the citizens of this country to manage their own personal risk, as they have been doing every day of their lives, instead of implementing scattershot, reactive, and arbitrary …