PinnedFacts as feedstock, noise as featurea plausible trajectory for generative AIs of the future?Feb 5Feb 5
The deliciousness of beneficial ownershipan inspiring dinner and three strange thoughts about deep oceans, ancient languages and sticks, yes sticksOct 17A response icon2Oct 17A response icon2
Markets will fix this, right?In an ironic inversion of roles it is now the progressive center-left that invokes the logic of markets and the rational of free trade as…Sep 1Sep 1
Power positiveThree issues with political economy analysis, one possible improvementFeb 8A response icon2Feb 8A response icon2
Why bad power point can be really good for you and usWe loathe bad power points and are so sure how to make them good — no we don’t…Nov 14, 2024Nov 14, 2024
Three weird, big NGO strategy errorsSoo much is being written about NGOs doing strategy and all the pitfalls that loom along the way. What’s there to add? Well, here we go:Nov 12, 2024Nov 12, 2024
Love and anti-corruption trainingyes, they really have a lot in common — despite this cheap try of attention-grabbingDec 19, 2022Dec 19, 2022
One thing that’s badly missing in our thinking about money-in-politics and lobbyingLet’s call it CJANov 10, 2022Nov 10, 2022
The brown transformation — will we manage to get there?To avert galactic collapse, we must embrace a new, brown future — and embark on a most unprecedented and treacherous journey for all of…Nov 9, 2021Nov 9, 2021
Overlooked and troubling: information wants to be really expensive, not freeThe conventional story about digital information is not quite right and the consequences are serious for democracy and justice:Jan 30, 2019Jan 30, 2019
