Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – What lies Beneath!!

How a podcast, an audiobook and a Linkin Park song connected into one idea about the threads beneath what we consume.

Finance

Finance Byte 2 – The Sixth Sense

Why finance people develop a sixth sense for numbers, and the commercial instinct that comes with it.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 40 – Market Equilibrium

Where supply meets demand: market equilibrium explained, with the bathtub theorem as an analogy.

Finance

Finance Byte 1

Why finance is best placed to check whether a company creates value, and finance's role from start-up to running the business.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 39 – More Supply

The supply schedule and curve, shifts in supply, and elasticity versus inelasticity of supply.

Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – Ready.. set.. Action!!

Getting from point A to point B: start with the why, take specific steps, check feedback and iterate.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 38 – Supply

What supply is, the law of supply and the factors that determine how much suppliers bring to market.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 29 – Nakamoto Consensus

How blockchain transactions differ from traditional ones, how Nakamoto consensus works and the challenges it faces.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 37 – More Demand

The law of demand and why demand falls as price rises: the substitution effect and the income effect.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 36 – Demand

Demand defined: the want, the ability to pay and the plan to buy, and how demand fits into strategy.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 35 – Market & Price

What a market is, what makes it competitive and how prices are set when no single buyer or seller has control.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 34 – Fiscal Policy Impact

Countries ranked by budget deficit, why governments run deficits, the types of fiscal policy and national debt.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 28 – Blockchain Protocols

What blockchain protocols are: the rules that define how a blockchain works, building on the Byzantine Generals' problem.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 33 – Fiscal Policy.. Cont'd

Non-tax revenue, government expenditure, fiscal surplus and deficit, the factors behind each and how deficits are financed.

Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – I wish I knew this at 20..

A personal reading of Roger Martin's post on balancing exploration and exploitation, and what it means for a career.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 32 – Fiscal Policy

An introduction to fiscal policy: how governments use budgets, taxes and spending to influence the economy.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 27 – Byzantine General's Problem

Reaching consensus in a decentralised network where some nodes may be dishonest: the Byzantine Generals' problem explained.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 31 – Strategy & Problem Solving

Problem or situation? Mental models, systems thinking and variables, and how strategy is a form of problem solving.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 30 – Inflation effects

How demand-pull and cost-push inflation play out, and the effects of inflation on an economy and on businesses.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 29 – Inflation Drivers

What inflation is and what drives it: demand-pull versus cost-push inflation.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 26 – Node Synchronization

How decentralised ledgers stay in sync across nodes, explained through production and backup servers.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 28 – Inflation - Impacting lives

Inflation's impact on daily life through two hyperinflation case studies, Zimbabwe and Argentina, and the causes of inflation.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 27 – Inflation

Why inflation is a critical macro variable for strategy, following on from interest rate drivers.

Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – Resonance

Borrowing resonance from physics: why some ideas and people click with us, and how to find your own frequency.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 25 – Verification & Addition of Blocks

How blocks are verified and added to a decentralised ledger, building on Merkle trees and Merkle roots.