Out of the woods
We’re not out of the woods yet. If by “woods” you mean “this place where we find ourselves in which we’re often confused, are occasionally… Read More »Out of the woods
September 2022
Resource: Martin Blais / Beancount on the double entry counting method (bookkeeping)
If you’re in a position of responsibility in any organisation – a business or department of a business, a social club, a non-profit – it… Read More »Resource: Martin Blais / Beancount on the double entry counting method (bookkeeping)
Popeye and Bluto: film’s first superheroes?
What is the true identity of the world’s first superhero? Should we look back to Gilgamesh? Achilles? Hanuman? Samson? Robin Hood? Ōgon Bat? Buck Rogers?… Read More »Popeye and Bluto: film’s first superheroes?
By Seuss! Theodor Geisel, taxidermist
Tremendous.
“Empirically sufficient and empirically necessary” – Lant Pritchett on economic growth as the (only) key to poverty reduction
Recommended. Abstract We show that any cross-national measure of human material wellbeing that is (i) basics (not luxuries),(ii) general (uses indicators from multiple domains), and(iii)… Read More »“Empirically sufficient and empirically necessary” – Lant Pritchett on economic growth as the (only) key to poverty reduction
Emperor of Ruins (Lovecraftian anthropology; Kremlin psychodrama)
In the second installment of James Lovegrove’s tremendous Sherlock Holmes / H. P. Lovecraft mashup, Moriarty – assumed dead – has returned as the god… Read More »Emperor of Ruins (Lovecraftian anthropology; Kremlin psychodrama)
The M&M Rider
Van Halen famously* included a clause in their standard contract with concert venues, buried among technical specifications for staging and sound equipment, that the band… Read More »The M&M Rider
100 Years of Cinema: The Making of Snow White
With 1.5 million individual drawings sketched, transferred to transparent cells, hand coloured and composited into over 350 thousand frames… Walt changed the game when it… Read More »100 Years of Cinema: The Making of Snow White
Siddhartha at the beach (Lessons from surfing #6)
“…Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life.” “But if you don’t mind me asking: being without possessions, what would you like to give?” “Everyone gives… Read More »Siddhartha at the beach (Lessons from surfing #6)
Meetings as metric
Holding a meeting – getting people in the same place at the same time with a shared agenda – is the very simplest thing a… Read More »Meetings as metric