Every sports contest has people who are convinced, and occasionally convincing, that they predicted the outcome. I am timestamping my predictions for McGregor v Mayweather. I’m not gonna give a [ … ]
Do you need a uni degree?
GCSE results day was today; A level results have already past. The fuss surrounding them shows just how the first quarter of our life is so dominated by the pursuit [ … ]
Uber v. the anti-corporate open source insurgency
I started the Uber post-mortem 6 months ago, long before it was vogue. Now it is coming undone and the threads will keep getting pulled. The car crash happened, I [ … ]
Regional inequality: also a housing supply problem
Over the past few years compelling evidence has come out suggesting that housing policy errors are behind slow productivity growth, wealth inequality, and the cost of living crisis. But a [ … ]
RIP Petunia – Imperfect cat and an imperfect owner. Lie at my side again
Dearest Petunia, I remember when I brought you home, you were adhered to my shirt. As soon as you met your new home you ran around. Nancy and I sat [ … ]
Bitcoin and Blockchain. The explainer…
Explaining how to play baseball can be a bit tedious for the explainer and the explainee. Bitcoin and blockchain are like this also. It is complex, but, once you get [ … ]
Taxes on sale at Amazon. Act fast, supplies are limited
Amazon gotta be Amazon’ing Many companies use tax havens, or impossible but true tax arbitrage schemes to underpay taxes to the country where it should be owed. What sets Amazon [ … ]
…and if you’re down with Google then fuck you too – part 1
I’ve been writing for a while about the political operating system transformation we are deep within. Everything looks the same, there is the appearance of continuity. The facades remain but [ … ]
Social Economy
The key to broadly distributing opportunity and capital is to nurture the source of social capital: the community economy. This asymmetric wealth accumulation and avoidance of risk creates a self-reinforcing [ … ]
I am #woke and other morally fashionable nonsense
Words have meanings. Sometimes. Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life and have students around the world anoint [ … ]