I came across both of these posts in the last week, and they both highlight the problem of bad legislation. I recommend both – which… Read More »Market Economics: Slate Star Codex on Drugs Vs Chairs and The Grumpy Economist on Paying for Public Toilets
This article – about the tragic death of James Le Mesurier, co-founder of The Mayday Rescue (also known as The White Helmets) – is both… Read More »Article: The Guardian Long Read on The White Helmets
Here’s a dose of optimism from KK – part of his excellent series of videos on The Future of X. It’s well worth checking out.… Read More »Kevin Kelly on the future of progress and prosperity
With this in mind… How does what you offer reduce the barriers to people consuming something important to them? In other words, how do you… Read More »Overcoming barriers
Here’s another example of how “best practice” is context dependent, this time in responses to the Covid-19 crisis: In the response to the COVID-19 pandemic,… Read More »Contextualising best practice: one size does not fit all
I think of the business model as the enabling “wrapper” around the “technical” solution you make happen. If you’re a plumber, it’s all the business… Read More »Resource: Seth Godin on Business Models
“Who pays?” is an important question for all sorts of reasons. In the world of non-profits, donors often pay. This can mean: That the charity… Read More »Who pays? (Donor edition)
The basic principle is that when you’re recruiting, you should be seeking to raise the average of your team, bringing in people who increase the… Read More »Raising the average (2)
My first post about The Onion looked at interesting problems as systems of networked sub-problems, and suggested that our solutions will mirror this structure. The… Read More »The Onion (2): a model for solving interesting problems
Loads of things are hard to start: Running doesn’t start feeling good until you’ve done it quite a lot Same goes for swimming Learning to… Read More »Other hard starts