Thank you - I did see you weren't the author, but I was hoping you might know something I didn't (I lived in the UK for 18 years but moved 2 years ago)! Incidentally, I took the Trenitalia to Milan from/to Paris and it was super nice (though SNCF keeps nice trains on that line & a comparative price)

Hello Tony (if I may), v interesting thank you. I don't quite get point about UK govt supporting competition for Eurostar, but not within the UK - the UK train system is already one w/ privatised companies competing on different lines? (Tho I have to say French trains are far superior service-wise)

Suffering through Peter Thiel's Zero to One for a paper. On the plus side though, the visionary had this to say in 2014: "even if strong AI is a real possibility rather than an imponderable mystery, it won't happen anytime soon: replacement by computers is a worry for the 22nd century". Yay? 🤷‍♀️😶‍🌫️

Teaching the recent HBR piece on AI slop in my strategy class this week. This'll be the tip of the iceberg soon, especially as consulting's existentialist crisis speeds up their cost cutting, which will inevitably mean more pressures to be productive (i.e. less time to write/research/fact check AI).

Thank you & of course they won't. The left coalition won the parliamentary elections. Instead of honouring that, Macron appointed three mostly right PMs. In continuing to defer to RN's issues, he strenghtened them. And France's issues got worse. Even if left gets a PM now, it's a poisoned chalice 🤷‍♀️

I really really appreciate your work Henry (if I may), but I don't think this is an issue France's left created or are responsible for. Macron has made France ungovernable.

In this remarkable opinion, Judge Young concludes it violates the First Amendment for government to deport people because it dislikes their speech, and hopes to chill others from engaging in similar speech.

So exhausting..

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Does this help?

This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day....

PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Cases like these of university professors being fired seems pretty relevant context that's not addressed here: www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

"Whether each new rule is well meaning or plainly obstructive, the cumulative burden still weighs on growth." Not on health or quality of life or infrastructure or inequality - on growth. Says it all really. Given how we live with all this 'problematic' red tape, I can only imagine the alternative 😶‍🌫️

Indeed. Just posted about what I'm trying to do about it over on LI if of any interest... www.linkedin.com/posts/majako...

Just saw someone argue that given new Apple iPods, people should stop learning languages. Where do you even start?

Imagine going into journalism to argue that not enough civilians have been killed in a war crime.

Oh Jesus.

This great book said it all years ago (and yes, it's utterly heinous): www.theguardian.com/books/2019/m...

That's funny Sarah, I find book writing so much more liberating than writing papers!!! 😱 To be fair, the first book is an updated edition of Jo Hatch's Org Theory textbook (which we are actually having lots of fun with) and this is less than 40k words, so maybe doable (or I'm just kidding myself) 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

First solo book contract signed!

Elites, Business and Society coming your way sometime late next year (God willing, given least of all I have another book to deliver in the same period 😶‍🌫️). Attempt to do a truly cross-disciplinary intro to business elites in less than 40k words.

Wish me luck!

Joooooooj.... boze stvarno ljudi. PS Hvala ti na linku, jako interesantno!

Oh Jesus, not Rod too.

Relatedly, made the mistake posting something about ChatGPT and avoiding its use in my teaching over on LinkedIn. Having to force myself not to read the plethora of hate comments....