1/ This week in financial infrastructure will end up in the history books/future case studies.

"The week that clearing/settlement caused a financial, cultural and political crisis" 2/ For 7 years, I have taught a class @MScDigital called "DFIN-513: Open Financial Systems" where, broadly, we looked at how the underlying infrastructure of the financial system works, if/how it can be replicated in a decentralized manner and what the tradeoffs would be

1/ 2nd day of 0 new coronavirus cases in Cyprus.

Currently Cyprus is one of the most successful / under-reported examples of the "squash the virus" strategies worldwide, with better results even than some super-performers like Iceland. 2/ Probably the most important factor in the Cyprus response was taking measures *very early*. Schools closed and universities went online less than 24 hours after the first case was identified in Cyprus. A few days later a fairly strict lockdown followed.

1 / In case it is helpful to anyone in a leadership, professional or personal capacity, a few thoughts on how we are thinking about COVID19 at @UNIC_ENG, how we are adjusting our campus operations, and what learnings might apply more broadly than our University 2/ Our starting point is that #COVID19 is a very serious illness - it is not "just the flu". It has a higher death rate than the flu in all age groups, it has a much higher death rate among the elderly and vulnerable groups and it may leave lasting damage even to the "recovered"

1/ "But inside this cohort of companies and projects will be the next Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Uber, and Airbnb."

https://twitter.com/avc/status/1023536759244644352

2/ "Like any early market, most of these projects and companies will fail. Some will fail to ship. Some will ship things that don’t work. Some will ship things that work but aren’t adopted. And some will ship things that are adopted but are surpassed by something better."