OK, this is funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qI0LTmSr38

Hi, everyone.

I am back from my blogging sabbatical with a new blog post.

I'm proud of this one.

Why I am setting out on a journey and inviting you along.

Click here (not the picture) https://terikanefield.com/why-i-am-setting-out-on-a-journey-and-inviting-you-along/

(If you get the error message, wait a minute and try again. I have been told by people who understand Tech Magic that the picture is supposed to foil the error message.)

This is a cogent must-read. I wish I could write like @caseynewton

The billionaires hedge their bets
https://www.platformer.news/tech-ceos-trump-election-bezos-zuckerberg/

Posting this tonight for no particular reason:

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore."
- @JuliusGoat

Should everyone earn their pay rise?

Mozart and Haydn were composing string quartets a quarter of a millennium ago, when the industrial revolution was in its infancy. Since then, the scale of the world economy has increased at least a hundredfold and material living standards in western Europe have grown 20 times over, perhaps more. Our ability to travel, build, calculate, communicate or simpl

https://timharford.com/2024/10/should-everyone-earn-their-pay-rise/

#UndercoverEconomist

How a mind-boggling device changed economic history

At the London School of Economics, a few weeks before Christmas, in 1949, the Lionel Robbins seminar was about to begin. The prestigious event was at the razor’s edge of postwar economic thought: Robbins, a giant of economics, had made the LSE a rival to John Maynard Keynes’s Cambridge, recruiting future Nobel laureates such as Friedri

https://timharford.com/2024/10/how-a-mind-boggling-device-changed-economic-history/

#Highlights