Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a really big influence on how I do business. It helps to explain some moral concepts I’ve thought about for a long time. Particularly within the journalism and the finance industry.

It is also a really good framework for knowing when someone is selling advice that sells, as opposed to selling advice with some consequence of how that advice plays out.

Similar to the main message in both The Comfort Crisis and The Road Less Stupid, Taleb drills “in order to succeed, you must first survive.”

Charity boxing event in Jersey.

Still relatively new to the island, I signed up to a boxing night to fight in front of hundreds of people. There was a 12 week training camp and a fight night in front of an audience in black tie.

Company Turnaround

Imagine you know of a technology that could make a huge impact on the world for the better. This technology is able to unlock an endless supply of clean, renewable energy which, if used correctly, could provide heating, electricity and freshwater for everyone. It is very simple and uses existing materials and equipment in a very clever way. It is also very affordable to deploy, has a small footprint and could run for decades with virtually no input. You have basically found the Holy Grail of renewable energy; a solution to climate change, capable of revolutionising how we responsibly power the planet, forever. This new, unique system is designed – it just needs testing, and then it will be ready to use.

A lap around Sri Lanka on Royal Enfields.

Another trip of a lifetime that words won’t do justice.

Scradly, Cronje, Stretchy and myself hired some gutless Enfields for a lap around Sri Lanka. We rode the bikes through remote terrain and danced through busy traffic for a week.