Founder:@AtelierNext, studio for initiatives @ frontier of generating better future. Fellow:@EHFNewZealand. Hon Lecturer:@UCL_ISR. Views own. Mostly on BlueSky.
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7 May 2025
To be honest, I'm now mostly on BlueSky. You can follow me there: bsky.app/profile/davidbent.b….
Or, subscribe to my regular(ish) WeekNote on SubStack:
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Good luck everyone!
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
13 Nov 2025
my friend and colleague @davidbent wrote this about Britishness and his local chippy. Have a read! x
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
30 Jun 2025
NEW UPDATE. As predicted, the 3 days a week with Absurd Intelligence has made a regular WeekNote harder.
INITIATIVES
-Scaling up sustainable innovation: @cisl_cambridge event.
-@UCL_ISR: 'Responding to Abundance: Yes, and…'
Absurd Intelligence
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2 Jun 2025
NEW EPISODE of Innovation for Sustainability. Julie Blane and Carmel Rafaeli are the Founding Partners of The Table, a community of investors focused on increasing investment into climate ventures where there is at least one woman on co-founding team.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
12 May 2025
EVENT REPORT: Good faith arguments against 'post-growth'.
-Ecosystem thinking for a post-growth future.
-Good faith arguments against: their responses, and my list.
-New framings needed.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
7 May 2025
NEW WEEKNOTE w/c w/c 21 & 28 April 2025, covering
CATALYST & ENABLER
-Services offered: could you use a strategist/futurist/facilitator?
INITIATIVES
-Assembly Dialogues
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-'The Rift': new Chatham House research cycle
-'Speak Up' Agency launch
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
23 Apr 2025
NEW WEEKNOTE w/c 31 Mar 2025.
-How can a climate innovation hub deliver the most impact over the next 3-5 years?
-Do MAGA hate Europe because they fear we can succeed with progressive values?
-Trump tariffs: careful what you wish for.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
1 Apr 2025
WEEKNOTES for w/c 17 & 24 Mar 2025.
'CATALYST & ENABLER' MANAGEMENT
-2025 Intentions
-Job feedback
INITIATIVES
-Venture Partner,Conduit Connect
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-Trump as derailment _event_
-Rise of new religious practices and/or new religions?
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
20 Mar 2025
Hey so yesterday @thameswater asked us to remove all photos of our visit to their HQ from our website, and the whole internet, by 5pm.
We would like to ask CEO Chris Weston, on the record, to remove all the shit from our waterways.
How about by 5pm today Chris?
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
17 Mar 2025
NEW WEEKNOTES WEEKNOTES w/c 10 Mar, covering:
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Operating in a world where Trump is setting the weather.
ATELIER MANAGEMENT
2024 Results
-Progress on the story I want to be able to tell.
-Progress on KPIs.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
10 Mar 2025
NEW WEEKNOTES w/c 10, 17, 24 Feb, & 2 Mar
This week covers:
ATELIER MANAGEMENT
-From 'getting by' to 'existentially revived'.
INITIATIVES
-Hard investigations: responding to the risks we're in.
-Becoming a Venture Partner at Conduit Connect.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
4 Mar 2025
NEW ATELIER POST. It has been a head-spinning and heart-stopping few weeks. I've not had a chance to produce a WeekNotes.
Here is a talk I gave in 2019 which, amongst other things, says we cannot assume the US will underpin the global order any more.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
25 Feb 2025
Ooh, I know the answer to this one. It is in large part because the market structures Neil's party did nothing to address during 14 years in office mean gas plays a much bigger role in setting wholesale power prices in the UK than they do in many other economies.
25 Feb 2025
If its just a "global spike in gas prices" how come we have the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world? Why are our prices so many times higher than the US? The reality is Miliband's policy is pushing up prices.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
7 Feb 2025
NEW WEEKNOTE w/c 27 Jan & 3 Feb 2025, covers:
-Looking for roles.
INITIATIVES
-CUSP bulletin: exploring hopefully.
-Using Time Well: ending gracefully.
-Podcast UK's first electric fishing boat
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-Recovering technocrat
-Avoiding overwhelm
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31 Jan 2025
NEW EPISODE: #Innovation for #Sustainability for @UCL_ISR. Hans Unkles on how (and why) he was first person to convert a diesel fishing vessel to fully electric.
Inspirational story of a master craftsman wanting to make a difference.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
27 Jan 2025
NEW WEEKNOTES w/c 20 Jan 2025, by
@davidbent:
-Immortal Address in memory of Robert Burns: 'in uncertain times, live life as artistic expression'.
-Investment principles for the next ten years: 'industrial revolutions on a deadline'.
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
20 Jan 2025
The historical track record of "breakthrough technologies take a really long time to be adopted outside their initial clusters" is so damn strong
20 Jan 2025
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Diffusion of New Technologies,” by Kalyani (@AakashKalyani), Bloom (@I_Am_NickBloom), Carvalho (@marcela_cfmello), Hassan (@t_a_hassan), Lerner, and Tahoun (@tahoun100) doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf002
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
11 Jan 2025
Various supporters of the previous Tory government are blaming green policies for our gas storage cruddy. It was their government who let the Rough gas storage facility close in 2017. It’s about the folly of privatisation, not net zero.
Britain's gas storage levels are "concerningly low" with less than a week of demand in store, the operator of the country's largest gas storage site said on Friday
Read more ⬇️
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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social retweeted
30 Dec 2024
NEW WEEKNOTE Nov and Dec 2024. Apologies for the delays.
This time:
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-Talk: Navigating arapidly changing world.
-Domineering finance: we missed the moment.
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16 Dec 2024
Huge thanks to @LondonCandles.
I wanted to give people candles at a dinner for my late wife. But I realised late.
@LondonCandles went out of their way to make sure I got the candles in time, even though it was a small order.
#appreciate
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