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The Thucydides Trope: Part II
What The History of the Peloponnesian War can teach us about risk: Fate of Insurance; FOQNEs; Broadband Gap; Tech and Support
Mar 5, 2021 • 
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The Thucydides Trope: Part II
Sea is for Cryptocurrency
What The Outlaw Sea can teach us about risk: Micro and Macro Hacks; Cyber Coverage; Cyber Financing; Commodity Commons
Mar 12, 2021 • 
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Sea is for Cryptocurrency
Systems Thinking
What Akira can teach us about risk: Cyber Insurance, Crypto Regulation, Big Bank Crypto, Political Risk
May 27, 2021 • 
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Systems Thinking
Food, Fatefulness and Faith
What Pachinko can teach us about risk: Crypto Gresham’s Law; Cyber Competition; Standards, Frameworks and Justification; White Collar Character; Digital…
Jan 7, 2021 • 
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Food, Fatefulness and Faith
The Thucydides Trope: Part I
What The History of the Peloponnesian War can teach us about risk: Berkshire Bets; Cyber Take the Hill; S is for Crypto; Chips and Chains; The New Guard
Feb 25, 2021 • 
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The Thucydides Trope: Part I
The Prince and the Popular
What The Prince can teach us about risk: Fintech Feared, SonicWas and SolarWasn't, Biden Hires for Cyber and Zero-Day Taxes
Jan 28, 2021 • 
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The Prince and the Popular
Autonomous Cults
What Cults In Our Midst can teach us about risk: Cyber Industrial; Hack Back; Chips and China; Big Budgets
May 20, 2021 • 
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Autonomous Cults
New Start @ www.tailrisk.com
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Jul 21, 2023 • 
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Techno Babel
What Snow Crash can teach us about risk: Decentralize This; Is Everything National Security?; Insurance On The Move; Mega Mergers; Cyber Metrics; Cyber…
Feb 11, 2021 • 
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Techno Babel
From Good to Bad and Back Again
What The Winter’s Tale can teach us about risk: Digital:Relationship Banking::Trading:Deal Making; Multipolar Deals; Whither Insurtech?; Cyber Achilles…
Jan 21, 2021 • 
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From Good to Bad and Back Again
Two of a Kind
What the Neapolitan Novels can teach us about risk: What Doesn’t Matter; What Matters in Cyber; eBanking; Defense See-Saw; Vaccine Soft Power…
Feb 4, 2021 • 
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Two of a Kind
Rational Risk, Part I
What Crime and Punishment can teach us about risk: MasterIdentity; Optionally Unmanned Intel; Chip Shortage; Ransom Notes; DevOops
Apr 23, 2021 • 
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Rational Risk, Part I
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