Picking up Tuesday’s post about transactional reading and contemplation, here’s something interesting that goes a little further in thinking about how we might immerse ourselves… Read More »Extending books: Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen on Timeful Texts
This is a really interesting interview with Max Roser, founder and editor of Our World in Data. Recommend. The idea of development is to make… Read More »Max Roser: defining global development
How long does it need to be? What would be different if, rather than being paid by the word, you were paying?
Ezra Klein: If you can get the argument of a book – through book reviews or book essays or a Wikipedia page or something –… Read More »Misreading the mind: Ezra Klein and Nicholas Carr on transactional reading and contemplation
[Public service announcement for email subscribers: sorry for the unfinished post you may have received out of the weekend – I was having issues with… Read More »Matt Ridley: invention vs innovation
Mental models are how we understand the world. Not only do they shape what we think and how we understand but they shape the connections… Read More »Resource: 109 mental models from Farnham Street
Will require: Clarity of vision (and a worthwhile vision to begin with); Recognition of progress made; Acceptance of limits; Forgiveness for failures; Avoidance of (fatal)… Read More »Staying fresh
Watching skate videos – try this one, or this one – is great. You can kind of imagine doing those tricks. Watching beginner “how to”… Read More »Gravity bites
Inequality isn’t my favourite hobby horse, mainly because: “Fair” and “equal [being / having the same]” are often (wrongly) assumed to be the same thing;… Read More »Astonishing wealth inequality graphic
I am pretty good at new challenges. Most of the time, I rise to them. I enjoy novelty. I like a challenge. It’s stimulating, creative… Read More »New challenge, old challenge