Freshening Up: DriverlessCroc is on Holiday
Thanks for coming! I’m on holiday until early January, when I’ll be back to posting at least three times a week. Wishing you and yours… Read More »Freshening Up: DriverlessCroc is on Holiday
December 2021
As Long As It Takes (3): Things Which By Their Nature Are Never Finished
The work necessary to maintain peace Change Your education The education of other people, old and new Work to improve and maintain public health The… Read More »As Long As It Takes (3): Things Which By Their Nature Are Never Finished
As Long As It Takes (2): Things That Take As Long As They Take (and which you can’t or don’t want to rush)
This is not to say that you can’t or shouldn’t affect the speed at which these things happen – just that when you’ve done what… Read More »As Long As It Takes (2): Things That Take As Long As They Take (and which you can’t or don’t want to rush)
As Long As It Takes (1): Oliver Burkeman on Patience
We speed addicts must crash to earth. We have to give up. You surrender to the reality that things just take the time they take,… Read More »As Long As It Takes (1): Oliver Burkeman on Patience
MetaCroc: 50k; New Rhythms
This post is part of a series recording the growth (or shrinkage) of DriverlessCrocodile in the spirit of experiment, and in case the information is… Read More »MetaCroc: 50k; New Rhythms
Will and Ariel Durant on Inequality, Redistribution, Revolution and the Nature of Society’s Wealth
On The Inevitability of Inequality Since practical ability differs from person to person, the majority of such abilities, in nearly all societies, is gathered in… Read More »Will and Ariel Durant on Inequality, Redistribution, Revolution and the Nature of Society’s Wealth
Writing Before: High-Level Language, Code and Subroutinity
The weird thing about code is that you realise that language is code: the ability to direct other people lets you get more stuff done… Read More »Writing Before: High-Level Language, Code and Subroutinity
Technology (20): Software Eats the World (again)
Software Eats the World means… … that any product or service in any field that can become a software product will become a software product.… Read More »Technology (20): Software Eats the World (again)
Writing and Reading (and visual art) as Technology (9): Virtual Realities
Seven year-old Onfim slays his enemies; Onfim is a wild beast. Onfim (hat tip: Alex Tabarrok and Owen) reminds us that reading and writing (and… Read More »Writing and Reading (and visual art) as Technology (9): Virtual Realities
Neal Stephenson on Speaking Arrangements; Art and Artists; Correspondence and Productive Writing
On Speaking [My literary agent] Darhansoff & Verrill… handles speaking requests. I almost never accept these. When I do, I charge a lot of money,… Read More »Neal Stephenson on Speaking Arrangements; Art and Artists; Correspondence and Productive Writing