Business

THE COST OF CORPORATE DISTRACTION

13/02/2026

The Lend Lease Wind-up: Australia’s own "Budweiser Moment" I take no pleasure in writing this about a past employer. However, this development serves as a necessary and timely warning to the Australian business community. In the Handbook of Business 101, Chapter 1,

THE KARAMAZOV CODE

01/02/2026

What a 19th-Century Russian Novel Reveals About Entrepreneurial Chaos Introduction: Your Startup's Secret Weapon is a 150-Year-Old Russian Novel What can a sprawling, 19th-century Russian novel—a dense tapestry of patricide, faith, doubt, and profound family dysfunction—possibly teach you about running a business

FIXING CAPITALISM - PART 3

30/01/2026

The Path Forward: Constrained Prosperity Economics Why a Simple Return to the Past is Not the Answer The manifest failures and frictions of 21st-century global capitalism have, understandably, led some to call for a return to older, seemingly more straightforward economic models.

FIXING CAPITALISM - PART 2

26/01/2026

A Tale of Two Systems: The US vs. China and the Perils of Asymmetric Capitalism Divergent Paths of Industrialization and Globalization The latter half of the 20th century was largely defined by the economic dominance of the United States. Emerging from World

FIXING CAPITALISM - PART 1

24/01/2026

The Agnostic Nature of Capital: Theoretical Ideals vs. Real-World Friction Introduction A pure libertarian philosophy, in its most undiluted form, champions absolute individual freedom and minimal government intervention. It is an intellectually elegant framework that operates flawlessly in a vacuum. However, it

THE FOUNTAINHEAD

20/01/2026

Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is not merely a story of architectural rivalry; it is a profound philosophical investigation into "Individualism versus Collectivism, not in Politics but in Man’s Soul". Through the journey of its protagonist, Howard Roark, Rand projects her vision of

ATLAS SHRUGGED AND GOD SMILED

10/01/2026

Ayn Rand’s tome - Atlas Shrugged - had a profound influence on me when I was younger. I reread it recently and wanted to formulate some ideas to reconcile what I think and what I believe. What I believe is summarised in