The first tool in our new Venture Science Toolkit — The purpose of the tool When we imagine the future, we tend to think in linear steps. The problem is the world doesn’t work this way. Change happens in a fractal pattern where billions of people and events react with each other to bounce the world into a new future. This is a future our…

Main Sequence is hiring again — are we looking for you? — You might be surprised about what makes a great VC. In Main Sequence we have engineers, product managers and doctors as well as experienced VCs who have helped build the Australian venture system from the earliest of times. Me, heck, I’m an ex-theatre director. None of us have got here…

Deep tech (or frontier tech, as it is sometimes called) will be a mainstream venture category in the near future. There is still plenty of SaaS investing to be done, but I think we’ve passed the peak of digitising real-world workflow, media, and commerce. Alpha lies elsewhere. SaaS investors must look at deep tech The next waves…

No two deep tech investors are the same. Some are very technical, trained in science and able to go deep into the foundations of an invention. Some are from entirely different backgrounds. It is helpful to understand the science, but it is not core because we are investors, not scientists…

What does this image show? Does it make you feel anything? When a founder works closely with an artist, they can unlock understanding and opportunity. This picture is the result of a collaboration between Professor Michael Biercuk (Q-CTRL Founder) and his third employee, Damien Metcalf for Fire Opal. Look at the image and imagine what Fire Opal does and how you feel about it. Then read the product page and think about how much you already understood.

Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game: How Great Businesses Achieve Long-lasting Success lays out what to do differently when playing the infinite game. Principles for the infinite game Here are Sinek’s principles and my response to them. #1 — Advance a Just Cause What am I trying to get done… that will always be bigger than I can complete? It needs to…

Tweaking my decision-making with the infinite game mindset. I have found it to be a key to imagining (and building) a world of abundance and opportunity vs a world of scarcity and conflict. The idea was first articulated by James Carse in his book: Finite and Infinite Games. Here are…

I have a little note at the top of my daily agenda. It is the first thing I read daily, reminding me how to conduct myself. It asks: Are you playing the infinite game? It completely changes my decisions, reduces my fear of failure and expands the possible impact. I am not playing to win. I am playing to keep playing. It helps me feel unstoppable. — 🖖🏻 I’m building out loud. Subscribe here — https://philmorle.medium.com/subscribe or follow me @philmorle

When we learn to ski, we are taught to lean down the mountain when all you want to do is lean up. Quickly we learn that control comes from having the weight on our toes. When driving a Formula 1 car, the brakes don’t work well unless they are hot…