. @RevolutApp @ Everest Base Camp (5,364 meters | 17,600 feet) #NeverSettle #GetItDone

If you strongly believe in a future outcome, convincing others may not be the best use of your time. Avoid the curse of Cassandra - make the bet, take the risk. Being right is more persuasive than being loud.

The trend of 2025? Quiet emigration. No noise, no drama - just disappearing. Those who shout rarely leave. Those who leave do it quietly. What’s the antidote? Vision. Mission. Something to be excited about. “We’ll have flying taxis and the best healthcare system in the world.” Not: “We might reduce waiting lists… some year.” Growth creates revenue. Vision attracts growth.

Plus ça change… The hush of a medieval scriptorium is unlike any other silence—broken only by the scratch of quill on vellum and the faint clink of a mortar grinding lapis into ultramarine. Master scribes spend decades learning how to breathe steadily enough to gild a single serif, how to weave vines of vermilion through margins without smudging a word of Augustine. A finished Psalter is equal parts prayer and performance; some pages take a full week to lay a single color. Then, in the 1450s, a black-iron contraption arrives from Mainz: Gutenberg’s movable-type press. A single pull of its lever spits out a page in the time it takes a scribe merely to trim a quill. The guild of illuminators gathers beneath cathedral arches, voices echoing off stone: “That machine hijacks our artistry,” one cries. “It copies our letterforms without permission—line for line!” Petitions stack high, begging bishops and princes to outlaw the noisy marvel. ⸻ Yet a few curious souls walk from the cloister to the print-shop. They discover: •Fonts imitate them. Early printers model their typefaces on the very hands these scribes perfected; who better than a calligrapher to judge spacing and rhythm? •Press pages need personality. After each sheet dries, blank capitals wait for hand-painted blooms of gold and carmine, and clients will pay extra for books that still carry a human touch. •Proofreading is scripture-level work. Years spent memorizing every twist of Latin declensions translate perfectly into catching a misplaced et on page 312. Soon broadsheets appear: “Quill & Press Atelier—Typographic design, hand-illumination, and edition proofreading.” A former monk now earns triple, hired by Venetian printers to create custom italic fonts; another becomes famous for tinting woodcut maps, his roses of the winds swirling in cobalt over mass-printed seas. Their mastery hasn’t vanished—it has scaled, riding the gears they once feared. ⸻ Meanwhile, those who pinned their hopes on banning the iron press watch commissions wither. Their skill of shaping letters is still precious, but it lies sealed in cedar chests, untouched, while presses thunder day and night. ⸻ Lesson inked across parchment and paper alike: Words will always seek faster wings. The artisans who guide those wings—whether by quills, presses, or neural nets—remain the ones who decide how far stories can fly.

3 years pass 📈 x.com/i/trending/19024346837…

Truly inspirational stuff👏

Lots of excitement around Mario Draghi’s report on the future of European competitiveness but sadly... Similar to a doctor telling an overweight patient with heart disease to eat better and exercise more - the challenge is not the diagnosis, it’s getting the patient to act on the advice. Overcoming the institutional inertia will be difficult. I’d genuinely love to see it happen though.

If you take the job at the startup instead of the safer one at a big company, all your coworkers will also be people who took the job at the startup. In ten years they'll be running everything, even if the startup tanks.

I’m surprised CT still gives Schiff oxygen. After this many years it’s clearly engagement farming and I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a long BTC position. ♟️ I’m also aware of the irony that this post gives him oxygen 😂

3 years pass… 😬

Some crypto news: @RevolutApp joins TRUST, the industry-driven solution for Crypto Travel Rule compliance. Onwards 🚀 blog.revolut.com/trust-trave…

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Heartwarming stuff!

Fun to see @paulg having similar thoughts. Let's get this done. x.com/paulg/status/165810033…

US crypto regulatory approach - an unnecessary own goal. EU generative AI regulatory approach - looking like it’s also heading for an unnecessary own goal. A huge opportunity for the UK if done right. @KemiBadenoch