Category: Late night thoughts

  • 02/01/2024
    Not leaving your kids alone UN aid chief Martin Griffiths: ‘The war in Gaza isn’t halfway through’ At least 136…
  • 02/10/2023
    This is a new civilization... Vaclav Smil on the Need to Abandon Growth Speaking as an old-fashioned scientist, I think…
  • 20/03/2023
    End of an error The SVB debacle has exposed the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley | John Naughton | The Guardian…
  • 01/02/2023
    On retirement I started retirement ( of a sort — but isn’t it always like that?) three years ago today,…
  • 01/01/2023
    TARA over TINA I hadn't come across the acronym TARA before, but it seems a hopeful thought for the New…
  • 08/12/2021
    Kind words: an obituary Doc Searls Weblog · Remembering Kim Cameron We all get our closing parentheses. I’ve gone longer…
  • 10/12/2020
    According to a helpful app on my phone that I like to think acts as a brake on my sloth,…
  • 19/08/2020
    I read Educated by Tara Westover earlier this year (it was published in 2018 and was a best seller). It…
  • 30/07/2020
    More accurately, late night thoughts from 26 years ago. I have no written record of my Edinburgh inaugural, but my…
  • 06/07/2020
    Two nice quotes from Paul Romer about his paper Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth The alternative to science…