@RJConsults 7m7 minutes ago So lovely to see Dr. Miriam Were from #Kenya at the #UniversalHealthCare Forum! I met her in Nairobi when I was working with the Ministry of Health and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on media training for journalists. Dr. Were is a true champion for community health services! #UHCForum2017 #HealthForAll #myrighttohealth …see more

Thank you for sharing this important information, Raj Panjabi . #foreignaid #health #globalhealth #foreignpolicy #pandemics

Worried about #socialmedia and how it may distort your thinking? How can we develop immunity to these influences? Think for yourself.

The next THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar will take place this Friday at 1pm EST. My guest will be Apollo Robbins , "The Gentleman Thief" and master of perception and attention management. Apollo first made national news when he pick-pocketed the U.S. Secret Service while entertaining a former U.S. President. Forbes calls him “an artful manipulator of awareness,” and WIRED has written that “he could steal the wallet of a man who knew he was going to have his pocket picked.” Please register to join what promises to be an insightful discussion: https://lnkd.in/dRHH8Pf …see more

Am excited to announce that my next THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar will take place next Friday, May 1st at 2pm. I'll be discussing oil dynamics with the legendary Tom Petrie. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dEZEbbn

In today’s Expert View, Vikram @mansharamani, president of Kelan Capital talks about the dangers of passive investing, bipolar markets, the skyscraper indicator, and lots more. Watch it now on Real Vision. https://lnkd.in/d6gPhn7 …see more

if you could only ask one question to a CEO/founder/exec team, the answer to which would determine whether you would invest in an early stage startup, which question would that be?

‪until recently i thought the CCP would leverage USA internal decay to make China the undisputed new global leader. ‬ ‪with coronavirus misinformation, data manipulation, lies, the corruption of WHO... the CCP squandered the opportunity.‬ ‪goodwill lost is hard to win again. under these circumstances, it is hard to see a dominant Chinese currency or finserv stack any time soon. $ will gradually losing power & emerging multi currency order is a more probable outcome. fintech & finserv should prepare accordingly. #currency #fintech #financialtechnology #financialservices #banking …see more

sharing without comments, and given the investor we all could come up with a plethora of comments. #fintech

here we go. ECB cutting rates and engaging in sweeping stimulus to avert Euro slowdown. my immediate question is: what other types of programs or initiatives will be started to avoid the ensuing rising inequality? negative rates weakens the banking system, destroys banks business models in the long run, eroded risk taking mechanisms. https://on.ft.com/2LqKvQB …see more

‪that WeWork is not tokenizing real estate assets is unfathomable. a missed business opportunity. ‬ ‪they do have an unfathomable S1 too, so there is that.‬ https://lnkd.in/eCMvZB7 …see more

‪ZuckCoin part 3: ‬ ‪- where do fiat currencies used to buy ZuckCoins live? on a bank balance sheet somewhere, in a segregated account & invested in ultra safe assets. ‬ ‪- what of the credit & counterparty & invesmtent risks associated w/these fiat deposits? massive all around! ‪- ZuckCoin needs c-banks, instead of or in addition to banks, as partners. ‬ - ‪the systemic risk of 2.7 billion users with their ZuckCoin wallets (spending, investing, paying, saving, borrowing) outstrips any one bank or group of banks. - ‪the complexity of the ZuckCoin governance (basket of fiat, how managed over time, burning & issuance of Zucks) will challenge economic policy makers on monetary or fiscal matters. - ‪i was focused on the data privacy issues (duh, FB) but the macro and micro economic issued & money creation issues via banks are as important. …see more

what to think of VCs who extolled the virtues of crypto (bitcoin most notably) & blockchain ushering more decentralization, a better internet -amongst other things- AND who now are backing the ZuckCoin? - morally flexible - full of horse manure - misunderstood geniuses - guardians of the galaxy …see more

the crypto Visa card will fuel unprecedented increases in London real estate. https://on.ft.com/2X9ZiCJ

makes sense and i missed the drift from the sociological to the psychological in season 8. it makes me think about how I make investment decisions. i definitely mix the sociological (institutions, structures) & the psychological with a heavy dose of Straussian interpretations all around. I wonder if early stage investors rely more on psychology and later stage investors rely more on sociology. …see more

few in big tech, no one in crypto remembers the dotcom bubble & its delightful accounting shenanigans. yet, this era is “borrowing” many of yesteryear’s behaviors - just on a bigger scale. at least fintech did not exist in the 90s 🙄 …see more

these are the top two types of meta errors i have observed startups or corporations being guilty of when using resources to build something: - playing a deterministic game with a probabilistic mindset - playing a probabilistic game with a deterministic mindset the superior decision makers avoids both and is able to detect which game she is involved with and which probabilistic/deterministic mix is most appropriate. #innovation #startups #entrepreneurship #intrapreuneurship #strategy #investing #incumbents …see more

unbundling products or services then re-bundling also means unbundling & re-bundling data. the better term being “disaggregating then re-aggregating data”. a powerful theme for financial services (note the term findata for all things data in fin.) a sub theme of “disaggregating & re-aggregating” is the reduction of risk asymmetries via more symmetric data insights, via multi party computation, zkp. disaggregating and re-aggregating data!! funny how i only verbalize this for the first time only now. #financialservices #venturecapital #data #fintech #regtech #blockchain #legaltech #risk #innovation …see more

what is antiquated in financial services: identity, AML/KYC, service, business model, privacy, transparency what most incumbents are working on: product innovation, automation, cost structure (add as appropriate) finserv is just *good enough* in most places and users are complacent enough in most instances. still, long term, the misalignment is not sustainable. …see more

‪riddle me this: what type of hardware, software & cloud services has Ant used to build its tech stack & infrastructure?‬ ‪Chinese? (Huawei for example)‬ ‪US?‬ ‪a mix?‬ ‪should regulators, legislators & other agencies in the West not ask that question?‬ h/t Dan Latimore …see more