Rebels from the garage BrewDog began as a small Scottish brewery founded by two friends, James Watt and Martin Dickie, who in 2007 brewed beer in a rented garage and sold it out of a van. Their ambition wasn’t to become just another “craft beer”, but to disrupt the entire beer industry. From the start,…
The Battle of Waterloo was significant not only because it marked Napoleon’s defeat, but also because it showed for the first time that in the world of finance, victory doesn’t belong to the one with the biggest army, but to the one with the fastest information. Thanks to his own network of couriers, Nathan Rothschild…
In 1994, Australian ranger David Noble set out on a canyoning trip into the deep, hard-to-reach gorges of Wollemi National Park in New South Wales. In one of the narrow ravines—places where people rarely, if ever, venture—he came across a group of unusual trees with strange branching patterns and a distinctive “bubbly” bark. They didn’t…
The Trump effect is fascinating in that it often achieves the exact opposite of what it intends. When he attacks NATO, he forces Europe to reflect on its own defense capabilities. When he undermines institutions, people start questioning their purpose. And when he tries to strengthen the power of Big Tech corporations, many of us…
