Author Archives
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Will there be life after Google?
The Google system of the world is an evil empire that stifles entrepreneurial activity and is doomed to fail, before a decentralised Internet will rise from the ashes, argues George Gilder in his latest book. On the face of it… Read More ›
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Reid Hoffman’s not fully convincing book on “Blitzscaling”
Businesses can achieve global scale faster than ever in the Networked Age, argues LinkedIn-founder Reid Hoffman in his new book, but must grow fast or die slow in a brutal market where the winner takes all. Blitzscaling — The lightning-fast path to… Read More ›
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Je suis Woke!
Titania McGrath har skrevet årets viktigste bok. Hvis du ikke leser den er du mest sannsynlig en fascist. Hun er internettsensasjonen, den post-moderne feministiske inkarnasjonen av Jeanne D’Arc som holder håpet oppe for Millennials opptatt av sosial rettferdighet, etter kriseåret… Read More ›
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Does the Massive Popularity of Michelle Obama’s Becoming Signal the Renaissance of the Traditional Housewife?
Michelle Obama’s Becoming has sold more than 10 million copies since its release before Christmas, and is on-track to become the most-selling memoir of all time, according to publisher Bertelsmann. Given her global superstar profile a Michelle Obama memoir would… Read More ›
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Monday Reads
The Mueller Report delivers the death blow to the reputation of American MSM news media, argues Matt Taibi (who is not known as a partisan of Trumpland): There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign… Read More ›
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The Name of this Blog
I first encountered Umberto Eco’s idea of the Antilibrary when reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan in high school in 2007. The idea made immediate sense to me, as I presume it would to anyone having experienced the overwhelming… Read More ›
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Morally Reprehensible / Factually Correct
Scientists should not ask questions that may have uncomfortable answers. Peter Conradi in The Sunday Times interviewing Alessandro Strumia, the Italian professor of theoretical physics who was fired by CERN, sanctioned by (his employer) the University of Pisa and publicly… Read More ›
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Saturday Reads
Richard Spencer reviewing the Sana’a, Yemen-based Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s Arabs — A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires in The Times (of London): “The word ‘politics’ derives from the Greek ‘polis’, a city, and represents a collective endeavour; siyasah, the standard Arabic translation,… Read More ›
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Globalism and Over-Touristification in Barcelona — the case for a steep Tourist Tax!
Tourists, street vendors and rickshaw cabs are destroying Barcelona, and it is really time for them to go home. Last weekend I visited Barcelona for the first time in close to a decade. While the combination of big city and… Read More ›
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Why do we get the wrong politicians?
As the Brexit saga approaches its chaotic climax, a new book seeks to answer what is wrong in Westminster. The fact that Westminster Palace is falling apart and infested by mice, is perhaps a descriptive analogy for British politics as… Read More ›
