Loire Advisory is a social impact consultancy serving foundations, family offices and institutional investors, offering philanthropic strategy, impact investing and governance advice. Its newsletter is mostly promotional material about the firm's founder, services and approach, with little substantive analysis.
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Analysis and commentary on the independent and documentary film ecosystem from a longtime nonprofit-sector insider. Issues cover foundation funding strategy, the economics of festival prestige and distribution, and community ownership efforts such as the Letterboxd bid.
Research publication and podcast feed from Forethought on navigating explosive AI progress, covering military AI command safeguards, space weapons and nuclear deterrence, and philanthropy during an intelligence explosion. Readers get detailed, sourced policy analysis with concrete proposals and estimates.
FreakTakes publishes operational histories of the most successful R&D organizations, such as early BBN and ARPA contractors, and draws lessons for building ambitious labs today. It also reports on the author's own BBN Fund and Frontier Research Contractor Launchpad, and on science philanthropy strategy.
Ventureology publishes long-form narrative histories of business and capital formation in American cities, starting with Chicago, with companion biographies to its podcast episodes. Readers get researched stories of founders like Rosenwald, Sears and Swift, framed around how capital, infrastructure and distribution built fortunes.
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