All Things, New
“I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” The New Testament – Revelation There’s theology… Read More »All Things, New
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Recommendation: John W. Gardner on Self Renewal
John W. Gardner (U.S. Secretary of State 1965 – 1969) is a thoughtful voice about self- and social-renewal and leadership: It is a puzzle why… Read More »Recommendation: John W. Gardner on Self Renewal
Recommendation: Rachel Glennerster on Poverty, Global Development, Randomised Controlled Trials and more
This interview on the 80,000 Hours podcast with Rachel Glennerster (chief economist at the UK’s Department for International Development and former executive director of J-PAL)… Read More »Recommendation: Rachel Glennerster on Poverty, Global Development, Randomised Controlled Trials and more
One Hundred Million Souls for the Emperor: Paul Fussell on Experience and Perspective
Many years ago in New York I saw on the side of a bus a whiskey ad I’ve remembered all this time. It’s been for… Read More »One Hundred Million Souls for the Emperor: Paul Fussell on Experience and Perspective
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)
Resource Magnet
Your job, of course, is to solve THE PROBLEM*. The next problem down is that there’s no way you can solve THE PROBLEM on your… Read More »Resource Magnet
Technology (19): Kevin Kelly on technological transitions as informational revolutions
This is a crossover post with the Literacy as Technology thread – I’ll weave some of these ideas in there in the coming days. Kevin… Read More »Technology (19): Kevin Kelly on technological transitions as informational revolutions
Technology (18): Self. Sufficiency.
With just: A tract of fertile land; some bales of hay; a few square meters of glass; a few tens of meters of spun copper… Read More »Technology (18): Self. Sufficiency.
Technology (17): Speeding up the S-Curve – Azeem Azhar and Hau Thai-Tang on the accelerating electrification of automobiles
The Exponential View is usually worth a listen, and this was a really good interview. Here’s a highlight: AZEEM AZHAR: … let’s look at the… Read More »Technology (17): Speeding up the S-Curve – Azeem Azhar and Hau Thai-Tang on the accelerating electrification of automobiles
Our World in Data is Great and Getting Better; or, How I Destroyed Several Billion Medieval Manuscripts
Revisionist History Thursday, 20:02 hrs I report an error on an OWID graph in their preliminary collection of information about books. Some of the numbers… Read More »Our World in Data is Great and Getting Better; or, How I Destroyed Several Billion Medieval Manuscripts