Nice idea from Charlie Munger, the inversion idea that instead of thinking what would make something thrive or really go well; what would make a venture sink then build backwards from there
Radical idea: if we dig fuel and minerals out of the ground we could sell them to fund things like hospitals, infrastructure and proper food for kids at school
New Zealand has sleepwalked 30 years in a rent-seeking stupor and awakened to find the kids have gone to Aussie having been the unthinking architects of a society entirely hostile to young people.
βIn a single generation New Zealand has transformed itself from a home-owning democracy into a society fractured by property wealth β between those who have it, and those who do notβ northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/β¦
Latest update for my #Googlepixel bricked the battery. Offered $89.00NZD as recompense ruining my otherwise perfectly adequate phone. I look forward to putting that money in the direction of another firm when I buy a replacement :-|
$4M science funding spent to spray sick Kauri trees with whale-oil, and play them whale-song based on nothing but folklore. Scientific opportunity cost at the hands of neo-mystic folktales, pedaled by ideologues.
When I was kid I used to catch eels - farm kid. Knowing all I know now about eels, I would have to be starving to eat one these days - beautiful creatures. I saw kids fish out one on New Years eve and I felt a pang of sadness. Sentimental journey
Writing summaries of soldier biographies and this sentence comes up time and time again "... and was killed in action in Belgium on XX October 1917" - the Battle of Passchendaele was an absolute disaster.
ALT Battling the elements - Mud and barbed wire during the Battle of Passchendaele Photo: The Great War Exhibition / Library and Archives Canada
Applications are open for the Munby Research Fellowship 2025!
This 2 year Research Associate position in Bibliography and Natural History Humanities is a collaboration between Cambridge University Libraries & @CamGLAMresearch
Closing date: 17 Jan
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ALT Photograph of Dr Sarah Pyke, 2024 Munby Fellow. They are holding a pile of books.