Writing
Community
16 July 2026
I am not asking you to defend the Jews. I am asking you to defend the establishment, and the un-radical proposition that the church of the whole nation cannot pick which of the nation's minorities it will hear
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13 July 2026
As an Orthodox Jew I had to wait 18 minutes into the match before turning on the TV – but after that I was cheering just as loud as any other fan
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12 June 2026
Anyone trying to get something done inside a company faces an implicit choice: how much to settle before they start.
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28 May 2026
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11 May 2026
Anyone watching the UK bulk annuity market has been turning over the Standard Life carve-out for the past few weeks (I know, this is a mass appeal article).
→ Insurance & risk
7 May 2026
The migration of long-duration life insurance liabilities from listed insurers into private capital structures is one of the largest reallocations of financial capital underway in the developed world.
→ Artificial intelligence
5 May 2026
Anyone using AI – specifically, LLMs – eventually has to deal with the same question.
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28 April 2026
Here's a timeline for you — from a Guardian column minimising hate crimes against a Jewish-linked bakery to 'Columnist of the Year' six weeks later.
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13 April 2026
Cursor's maker Anysphere announced a $2.3b Series D in November 2025 - $29.3b post-money valuation, past a billion in annualised revenue and accelerating. Bloomberg reported it topped $2b by February 2026.
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1 April 2026
Tonight we sit down to the Seder. We'll eat the matzah, dip the herbs, sing the songs.
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26 March 2026
Yesterday I posted about TurboQuant, a Google Research paper that compresses the main memory bottleneck in large language models by over 6x.
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23 March 2026
Every Sunday evening, between the ages of about eight and fifteen, I went to a Jewish youth group in west London.
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12 November 2020
A mental image of the Jewish intellectual space — and what it meant to lose the person who stood by the open French window between Jewish and non-Jewish thought.
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