‘Dark Emu’ by Bruce Pascoe
Every two pages, I had to put this book down and reassess one of my core beliefs about Australia. I believed that aboriginals were primarily...
Working towards a workshop: first workshop notes
The first workshop (briefing) was held on Friday and, while participants were broadly positive about it, there are a few major tweaks needed. I think...
Nobel Memorial Prize
The degrees of separation between a winner of this year’s Nobel memorial prize in economics and I are small enough to warrant mentioning. One degree...
Increasing yield spreads
Economics doesn’t prepare you for the financial system. An degree in environmental economics is another step away again. If you read enough financial literature, you...
Working towards the workshop: presentation development
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln Initially, preparing for the workshop...
‘Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World’ by Anand Giridharadas
Anand Giridharadas, an insider, punches holes through what he calls ‘MarketWorld’, the system of events, firms, thought leaders, philanthropists and policy makers who see market-based...
Ethical creep
It’s not the last ethical slip that gets you, it’s the first…. Ethical creep (my phrase) is the slow moving process that characterizes how most...
Random Notes from ‘Inadequate Equilibria’ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
For people more disposed to iconoclasm than conformity – inadequacy analysis (understanding that incentives can create inadequate solutions, solvable on a local level but rarely...
Quasi-circular economy or <1%, >60%, >80%
The thesis is that a circular economy will require growth in material consumption (primary and recycled materials) of less than 1%, a recycling rate greater...
Millennials – same same but different
Source: Bachelors Degree Center...