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Trite and not so trite 12 Mar 2011 | 03:10 pm
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery W...
‘pick important problems, fix them and tell everyone about it’ 15 Jan 2011 | 10:37 pm
This is a very neat summary by Alistair Cockburn of some key points from Sparrow – a book I’ve read large bits of, but never gone all the way through. The Regulatory Craft is so good that I found myse...
inner workings 8 Jan 2011 | 11:45 pm
Reading thoughtful literary essays by critics/novelists who know their world literature is one of my greatest pleasures. Tim Parks’s Hell and Back is one of many examples, and Robert Dessaix drifts in...
the ways we miss our life are life 8 Jan 2011 | 08:01 pm
Richard Ford set Independence Day, his second novel, after The Sportswriter, about Frank Bascombe, in the US summer of 1988 during the election campaign later won by George Bush senior. It won the 199...
subjective compendium 28 Dec 2010 | 07:34 pm
From cultural appetites [on the scale of Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky, and Godard (who though are "often more avid for cultural debris than for museum-consecrated achievements")] comes the creation of t...
the little known unfair treatment of tax deductions 18 Aug 2010 | 02:48 pm
From Centre for Policy Development item on why a vaguely flat tax may be OK – so long as there is a large tax free threshhold & a higher tax rate at the top. Paul Loring identifies a little talked abo...
Collective freedom 1 Aug 2010 | 11:23 pm
Andrew Charlton quoted by Mark Davis http://cpd.org.au/2008/10/an-economic-fool%E2%80%99s-paradise/ ‘[I]n the new millennium individualism is less appealing than collectivism. Whereas in the past indi...
I was behind you 21 Jun 2010 | 01:02 am
At first a narcissistic monomaniacal guy in the mould of Nicholson Baker; a lot less funny, perhaps a bit more serious, eventually you accept he is in a destructive relationship. He dances around his ...
Bay of Noon on 1970 ‘Lost Booker’ short list, w The Vivisector. 14 Jun 2010 | 02:07 am
“So, to the shortlist. We (the other judges were the poet and novelist Tobias Hill, and the newsreader Katie Derham) reached an agreement fairly rapidly on our first four books. The Bay of Noon by Shi...
fall over 20,000 times 3 May 2010 | 11:41 am
A couple of times recently the research on how to get good at complex things has come up – on the radio the other day, in Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book [Blink?]. The argument is an argument against g...
