This evening I heard Walter Isaacson talk about his newly released biography of Elon Musk. I am looking forward to reading the full book and, as Isaacson said, it is important to give people due consideration in their full complexity rather than to jump to simplistic conclusions, especially if based on partial evidence. I mightContinueContinue reading “Fragment: Elon Musk”
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Lockdown Notes #3 – sport, newsprint, Disney Plus and David Bowie
As has become the norm during lockdown, we chat (virtually) and one of the questions that inevitably pops up is how we’re spending our time. The phrase ‘intellectual pottering’ sprang to mind the other day. It sounds very grandiose. Really it just means pottering but not doing anything practical, such as a bit of weedingContinueContinue reading “Lockdown Notes #3 – sport, newsprint, Disney Plus and David Bowie”
Lockdown Notes #1 – thoughts about content, the media, knowledge, power and the humble pub quiz
Next to my bed is a permanent yet dynamic pile of ‘content’ – books, magazines, etc – an iPad too sometimes, my phone a stretch across to the dressing table. I seem to have a pathological dislike for empty surfaces. Why leave them empty when you could have stuff to hand? I’ll normally have somethingContinueContinue reading “Lockdown Notes #1 – thoughts about content, the media, knowledge, power and the humble pub quiz”
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