Talking Your Book

Exemplars on their "lessons learned" / "after action reviews" and contemporary global disruptions that are "risk on" or "at play".

A. Geopolitical risk arbitrageurs / speculators do volatility farming on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. Many are young people taking significant financial risks.

B. Why Australian universities rely on external consultants: 4 Corners investigative journalism episode (Australia) and YouTube hosted version (for international viewers).

C. How to discuss additional work-from-home days with your employer.

D. A new book by Rose Gottemoeller on US-Russia space geopolitics / exopolitics after 1991.

E. The “international rules-based order” is increasingly viewed as being dead.

F. Has Russia won the Russia-Ukraine War?

G. Barry Eichengreen “talks his book” at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft on 9th April 2026.

H. Today’s MIT OCW free course is Social Science and the Iraq and Syrian Wars created by Professor Roger Peterson.

I. Wargaming the Pacific (United States Naval College and the Hoover Institution).

J. Lloyd Blankfein “talks his book” with Anrew Ross Sorkin at the 92nd St Y, New York.

K. A talk by Sir Lawrence Freedman at Google on his influential book Strategy: A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

L. The trailer for the new film Palestine ‘36 (2026).

M. Rush returns with its new lineup at Canada’s Juno Awards to play its very first ever song, Finding My Way.

N. The SXSW 2026 panel The Knowledge Paradox: When Does Sharing Become Theft?

O. An hour of Iranian jazz.

P. The Nature of Genius - a free course at Open Yale Courses created by Professor Emeritus Craig M. Wright.