There is no single event which launched the Anti-ESG campaign which led, after only six years, to a robust Anti-ESG Ecosystem. The ecosystem is the subject of my book and what...

Dear All, I had a little hiccup with Substack this morning and the wrong post went out. I will be posting the one about the anti-ESG ecosystem book on Sunday. The one I just sent...

Earlier this week I published Stories I Won’t Remember Writing by Claude (author) and me (editor). In my Substack post I mentioned that I had asked him to write me a process memo...

Last week I told a story about companies. The ones with the best AI models tend to guard them; the ones playing catch-up tend to give theirs away. Where a player sits, I argued,...

It is with great pleasure and excitment that I announce what I believe to be the first collection of short stories written entirely by an AI agent. Or at least a collection where...

For roughly 2,000 years one civilization guarded a secret the rest of the world would have paid almost anything to learn—and made sure it stayed guarded. Sometime in the...

Rule 14a-8 has let shareholders put proposals to a vote for more than eighty years, and the SEC now seems poised to rewrite or repeal it. In an October 2025 keynote, Chairman...

Yesterday the Harvard Business Review published a short piece written by Shiva Rajgopal and me titled “AI Can Measure How ESG Really Impacts the Bottom Line.” The foundation for...

On May 29, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rescinding its climate-related disclosure rule in its entirety. The rule, adopted in March 2024, had been stayed...

On May 5, 2026 the SEC issued a proposed rule on semiannual reporting “to allow companies to file semiannual reports on new Form 10-S in lieu of quarterly reports on Form 10-Q to...

Part 2 of “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration” by Professor Shivaram Rajgopal and me is titled “The Operating Manual: Making It Work Inside...

The London campus opened in September 2031 with 47 students and a space in Clerkenwell that had been a design studio and before that a printworks and before that…

In my last piece, I argued that opposition to AI data centers has outgrown its origins. It is no longer a fringe environmental complaint or a local zoning nuisance; it has become...

January 14, 2029. Delaware has just registered the Meridian Institute as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and it exists now, legally, as a thing in the world. PBC. Not a...