We urgently need structural reforms to the international system - e.g.:
🔹 better terms of exchange for developing countries;
🔹 a global clearing union (in the spirit of Keynes 1943);
🔹 an international reserve currency;
🔹 major reforms of the governance of IMF and other post-war institutions 8/8

Part of that question is “is the tool doing the thing?” But a bigger part of that question is “should people do that thing?” and “at what cost is this thing being done?” and “if we do that thing, what do we lose, are we willing to lose it, and if not, how can we preserve it?”

No shit, Sherlock. Don't need no crappy AI program to tell me that. Everything else in this #SpotifyWrapped was patently wrong. Bring back the humans.

Listening to Tim Ferris interview Maria Popova on his podcast. And he spends 20 mins asking her about how she found her assistant and whether she lets her proofreader edit on WordPress or in a separate document.

He just asked her, "Do you use any project management software?"

Kill me already.

Besting the Infinite jest update. I'm 100 pages in. My end of the year resolution is to finish this book by 31st December.

Two months left, and only 90% of the book still to go 😁

Four episodes into the first season of The Morning Show. It's like a white feminist wet dream.

'Besting the Infinite Jest' starter kit.

- Infinite
Jest by DFW
- 2 bookmarks (the second one is for the 100 pages of footnotes)
- a notebook (to jot down thoughts, and to keep track of whatever the hell is going on in the non-plot)
- a pen and a pencil

Here. We. Go.