On this week's Quite Right podcast: This week, Michael Gove is joined by historian Simon Sebag Montefiore to discuss the rulers, revolutionaries and nation builders who shaped one of the world's most turbulent regions. From Ibn Saud's dramatic conquest of Riyadh and Atatürk's creation of modern Turkey to Ben-Gurion, Reza Shah and Nasser, Simon explores the extraordinary personalities who built states from the ruins of empire. What made these leaders so successful – and why did so many of their projects end in dictatorship, war or collapse? Listen | | @michaelgove

For DeFi builders, payments are the entry point to a much larger financial system: Payments → user growth → network effects → capital retention → liquidity → financing. As the system evolves, so does the source of power: first distribution, then liquidity, and ultimately capital allocation. The winners will be those with an edge difficult to commoditize - whether in regulation, distribution, risk management, user quality, institutional access, or product design. Insights from @Stanford Professor @ruizhejia at the @EASYResidency workshop.

At their best, prediction markets are economic systems for producing, rewarding, and aggregating information. Just as crypto exchanges evolved through multiple generations, prediction markets will go through their own regime shifts. Over the next five years, the winners will return to the fundamentals: better incentives, better information, and better decisions. Insights from @Stanford Professor @RuizheJia at the @EASYResidency workshop.