Power without form does not produce control. It produces motion. And motion, however precise, however expensive, however satisfyingly destructive at the level of individual operations,…
I came across a small journalistic footnote this week, the kind of item that appears briefly, generates no outrage, no think pieces, no panels, and…
If there were ever a patron saint of accidentally humiliating professionals, it would be Cliff Young. Cliff Young was not built like a champion athlete….
This Monday brief starts with Zuckerberg of all people. Why start a money brief with Mark Zuckerberg defending Elon Musk’s massacre of Twitter staff. Because,…
This Monday brief is a little different, less of a brief, more of a rant, not because I have suddenly developed a taste for confessional…
We live in the golden age of technological enlightenment. By which I mean your vacuum cleaner now has a microphone, a camera, LiDAR mapping, WiFi…
Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important concept any rational adult can learn, which explains why almost nobody talks about it outside statistics departments…
Elon Musk has now scheduled the death of human language, which feels efficient. Most civilizations wait for decline to become obvious before declaring something obsolete….
If you have ever heard of the Disc of Sabu, it was probably in the same way people hear about cursed manuscripts or impossible Roman…
The first clocks were not invented to help anyone. This is important. They were built in monasteries to tell people when to pray, when to…
While Sauron’s eye was fixed firmly on Davos – swiveling slowly over snowbanks, glass facades, and men named Klaus wearing identical scarves – it is…
In partership with The Sofia Globe Observed by an alien who has now waited seven hours for a Bulgarian stamp There is an old Talmudic…
