Following a suggestion by Clive Thompson. — Clive Thompson recently wrote How I Take Notes When I’m Doing Research, in which he lays out his thinking about research, and — to a limited extent — the tools and techniques he employs. He ends the piece he asks ‘Let me know if you do something like this, what…

This is from 2011, so the ‘crisis’ discussed is the scree falling from the Great Recession, not today’s crisis, ten years after. — I think Umair is right about what is wrong, but wrong about what’s right. Here’s his diagnosis: Umair Haque, Why This Crisis Isn’t Going Anywhere-And What To Do About It The clanking, wheezing institutions of the industrial age are beset by a titanic flaw. They overcount real benefits, and undercount…

Jack Watling wonders ‘Why didn’t Ukraine fall?’ Jack Watling details some of the errors in Western expectations about the war in Ukraine, including his own. I pull out his analysis of what the West is getting wrong, now, about drones in the war [emphasis mine]: Now that the threat of…

I will be using this plugin going forward. — I read about the updated Export Markdown with Embeds plugin (hereafter EMWE) in Eleanor Konik’s wonderful newsletter, and given her one-liner and information on the website convinced me to pay a $10 ‘subscription’ to MacStories to access EMWE (and I will immediately cancel the ‘subscription’ since there are no other…