Project Hindsight

Project Hindsight uses historical insight and evidence to make more cost-effective and successful strategy decisions. Director: @MRWeatherburn

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

💡🛸Interesting! What's going on here, do you think?

Soundtrack: Molchat Doma - Судно (Борис Рижий)
https://t.co/uL9KR0zEYR

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

Great event from @ucl, 12 March - The State of the United States: Safeguarding Knowledge: When #Memory Becomes Political. Get your tickets! https://t.co/aUHqHo4piO

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

🛰️💳✖️📍🛜🌤️'Alternative data encompasses non-traditional datasets—such as satellite imagery, credit card transactions, social media sentiment, geolocation tracking, web traffic, and even weather patterns' 2/2 https://t.co/EuFYpNcrdM

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

And... historical data 😉

💬 'In the past fifteen years, the alternative data industry has emerged as a transformative force in the financial services sector, revolutionizing how investors and analysts derive insights.' 1/2

https://t.co/EuFYpNcrdM

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

💡 Fascinating interview with Demis Hassabis, (Co-founder and CEO of @GoogleDeepMind), where they compare #AI to the industrial revolution. Also cameo appearances of Kant and Spinoza. Check it out!
https://t.co/2QTIHIbpSw

🙏 Thanks to @mininghistory for sending this over.

[Dr Michael Weatherburn @MRWeatherburn]

Hi, #history friends and colleagues! An honour to be a speaker at the upcoming @HWB_fi @ICDAcademy 'Narratives of Power' public event, Thurs 15 Jan at @ihr_history. Free tickets (below), see you there! https://t.co/NtcvzFB94L

[Dr Michael Weatherburn @MRWeatherburn]

🤝 🎙️ It's been a pleasure for @Proj_Hindsight to be invited to many meetings, conferences and special events in the past couple of months. I hope our insights have been useful.

📬 Many thanks for the welcome invitations - keep them coming! 2/2

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

Exactly! "Humanities Departments Are in Trouble, but ‘Applied Humanities’ Are in Demand" say @Harvard speakers:
https://t.co/ez0hkrr4xN

[Dr Michael Weatherburn @MRWeatherburn]

Fascinating interview with @MichaelJPryce in here. These #Defence #research #design facts are really striking! Cc @Proj_Hindsight

[Dr Michael Weatherburn @MRWeatherburn]

I really enjoyed writing this @substack piece with Jake Taylor-King (@wildtypehuman) on Radical Simplicity 📚https://t.co/R5tbGZ6cJn / more 👇

[Dr Michael Weatherburn @MRWeatherburn]

💡 ✨ Very proud to present my @HistoryPolicy article 'The Gospel of Efficiency: @DOGE and the UK Office of Value for Money in historical perspective' to the world 👉https://t.co/v8PkvJFWYL /more 👇

[Dr Michael Weatherburn @MRWeatherburn]

✨ Really proud to be interviewed by the ever-entrepreneurial @PatrykBabiracki for his practical history podcast, exploring @Proj_Hindsight's development over the years, plus what’s coming up 👉 https://t.co/l9mvg6o9Tj (the first he's conducted outside the USA) /more 👇

[FCDO Historians @FCDOHistorians]

Join us on Wednesday 4th at 5.30pm for some Reflections on Official History, with FCDO Chief Historian Patrick Salmon and Professor Thomas Otte.

Register for the online seminar here: https://t.co/4fELImwjUl

@HistoryPolicy

[Dr Michael Weatherburn @MRWeatherburn]

💡⚡️ Hi all, many thanks to those who joined us at @ImperialCollege for my recent #thought #leadership seminar! We had a lively debate, with many ideas and challenges - so much so that I've drawn it all together and prepared it for your enjoyment 👇 https://t.co/9BnlI7fw6U

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

@ScienceMagazine 👉 @BBCNews 'It’s not just about how much money goes to defence - it’s also about how it’s spent. Recent history is littered with examples @DefenceHQ projects that overrun and overspend, some in eye-watering proportions.' Learn more 👉 https://t.co/i7ms1p0KYN 3/3

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

📰 💯 @BBCNews highlight a critical issue - using historical evidence to make important projects work better. It's what we've already done very successfully, including in defence 👉 https://t.co/HWfF1pDaCr 1/3

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Return of unpredictable president puts UK defence spending top of agenda https://t.co/galwaJXDNF

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

Indeed we're named after a pathbreaking study investigating how #defence R&D works: https://t.co/j0hYr7hFlb via @ScienceMagazine 2/3

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

📢Exciting #Applied #History conference, @QUBelfast, 19-21 June 2025👇

[The ABH @the_abh]

The CFP for the 2025 Association of Business Historians Conference is out! https://t.co/7BEV2fm2VF Deadline for submissions 24th January 2025

[The ABH @the_abh]

The CFP for the 2025 Association of Business Historians Conference is out! https://t.co/7BEV2fm2VF Deadline for submissions 24th January 2025

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

In an age in which #entrepreneurs, small #startups and 'move fast and break things' are daily news, and older, more stable organisations dismissed as '#legacy', this is a refreshing debate to have. What do you think? 2/2
#history #heritage #OB #research #education #ROI

[Project Hindsight @Proj_Hindsight]

This fascinating Academy of Management @AOMConnect Discoveries study of #history in established Japanese firms by Profs. Innan Sasaki and Davide Ravasi observes that history can both inspire and constrain. https://t.co/Ed99YvlDw5 (video summary in link) 1/2