But this time it’s different

A podcast? About tech and finance? Groundbreaking.

The impulse behind Chalmermagne was the sense that in technology and markets, a lot of bad assumptions go unchallenged, institutions frequently underperform, and we fail to learn the lessons of history.

In that spirit, alongside this Substack, I’ve decided to start a podcast with my friend Sinéad O’Sullivan. Sinéad is a defence economist and multi-asset investor. Her experience spans Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the European Space Policy Institute, amongst much else. She also did a stint as an elite pastry chef.

We’ve recorded some initial episodes on de-dollarisation, unconventional recession indicators, and India/Pakistan (which we frustratingly finished minutes before the first missiles started flying). Podcast production is new for us both, so if we get any listeners, we’ll continue to refine the editing and the production values.

You can find us on Substack, Spotify, and YouTube, and I’m sure more in time.

Hope you enjoy!