On Startups

How to pursue a startup.

A. VC Root Access has a great free lecture series about how to found and run a startup. It features Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and others.

B. Radiohead’s first gig on their new live tour.

C. The Night Manager returns for season two. John Le Carre’s novel and the first series are excellent on what contemporary, entrepreneurial arms dealing is like.

D. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on United States Budgets for National Security (definitely AUKUS security compact relevant) developed by Dr Cindy Williams.

E. A rather influential documentary on Canada’s media theorist Marshall McLuhan.

F. Bloomberg on gold as a safe haven trade and a hedge against currency debasement.

G. Peter Zeihan on the geopolitics of Bolivia’s lithium supply.

H. The Australian National University’s Professor Hugh White - the most influential senior academic on China and geopolitics - explains contemporary global dynamics in an extended interview. Read his influential 2019 book How to Defend Australia and his 2025 Quarterly Essay Hard New World: Our Post-American Future (extract).