# Alex Obadia

> Alex Obadia is an entrepreneur and occasional angel investor, currently a Programme Director at the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) running the Scaling Trust programme. Previously co-founded Deep Quantum and Flashbots.

This is Alex Obadia's personal website: an about page, a blog, a list of public works (writings, talks, contributions) and a collection of links. Every page is also available as plain markdown by replacing the trailing slash with `.md` (e.g. https://alexobadia.com/about.md).

## Pages

- [Home](https://alexobadia.com/index.md): a short introduction and contact links
- [about](https://alexobadia.com/about.md): current roles, past projects, interests, and advising and investing
- [works](https://alexobadia.com/works.md): public writings, talks and podcasts, contributions to others’ writing, and resource collections
- [links](https://alexobadia.com/links.md): a living collection of cool links: positive uses of AI, space and energy, bio, computing, R&D and innovation systems

## Blog

- [without intermediaries](https://alexobadia.com/blog/without-intermediaries.md): AI could be an incredibly positive force for humanity, compressing decades of research into months, putting services once unattainable to most within everyone’s reach, and so much more. It could also be used as the… (aug 26 2026) [repost]
- [on burning man](https://alexobadia.com/blog/on-burning-man.md): I just got back from my first burning man. I was expecting to attend cool parties and to be living in rough~ish conditions, essentially an outdoor music festival on hard mode (because it’s a week rather than the typical… (sep 7 2025)
- [wanted: new instruments to fund BBNs](https://alexobadia.com/blog/new-instruments-to-fund-bbns.md): BBNs are entities that provide services critical to R&D breakthroughs. The acronym ‘BBN’ (coined in this blog!) comes from a famous example — Bolt, Beranek, & Newman, which was instrumental to the creation of ARPAnet… (jun 20 2025) [repost]
- [on emptiness](https://alexobadia.com/blog/on-emptiness.md): Last March I attended a Tibetan buddhist course (see on spirituality for more details) where the topic of emptiness was introduced. For many reasons, I was drawn to the concept and ended up reading more about it during… (jan 8 2025)
- [some principles for building an r&d organisation](https://alexobadia.com/blog/some-principles-for-building-an-r-d-organisation.md): Jonas from Chainbound recently asked how I'd structure an r&d organization. I started doing the exercise and quickly realized it’s hard to structure an org in the abstract without knowing what its mission is. I see… (aug 13 2024)
- [on spirituality](https://alexobadia.com/blog/on-spirituality.md): Here are resources related to spirituality that have inspired me, and may inspire you. I've added these links to the spirituality section of my links page, where I'll keep adding to them. Here they are: BeppuZen… (apr 10 2024)
- [on hidden influences](https://alexobadia.com/blog/on-hidden-influences.md): 'Hidden influences' are influences on your life that are unknown to you. It's a particularly satisfying feeling whenever I uncover one. It adds newfound weight to the past, and leaves me impressed by how the dots… (jul 14 2023)
- [on space exploration and extracting helium-3 from the moon](https://alexobadia.com/blog/on-space-exploration-and-extracting-helium-3-from-the-moon.md): I recently attended Unplug Climate, a 3-day climate tech hike/retreat. After a lovely day hiking back to our hotel and an afternoon whitewater rafting, I sat at the hotel's bar to have a drink and started a conversation… (jul 11 2023)

## Guestbook

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## Elsewhere

- [twitter](https://twitter.com/ObadiaAlex)
- [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandreobadia/)

## Optional

- [Full site content](https://alexobadia.com/llms-full.txt): every page and post in one markdown file