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Category Archives: Financial Times
What a species!! Tax breaks for oil and gas exploration
Yes, I know it’s been going on since the year dot. I know that’s how the game is played. Yet it still shocks me – terminal naivete about our terminal stupidity and cupidity…
Posted in apocalypse, economics, Financial Times, politics
Tagged cognitive limitations
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Reversal of fortune – of butterflies and Valerie Solanas
So this I found in my clippings folder – My first boss joked that Whitehall was the channel for the “reverse butterfly effect”: politicians spark chaos in departments, who transmit the current through bureaucratic layers and then, years later, a … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, competence, Financial Times, politics
Tagged Valerie Solanas
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Failing at failing – Chris Corrigan, Tim Harford and Peter Palchinsky
Via Johnnie Moore I came to another excellent post by Chris Corrigan. And in the comments below there was this… …I was moving through Tim Harford’s Adapt: Why success always starts with failure. What caught my eye, amongst many things … Continue reading
Not xx-rated. FT cartoon on gender and recruitment
I really miss the FT. I fall of the wagon every-so-often, but on the whole, I don’t buy it any more. Because it was turning me off “the Left?” – no, a) I was doing that myself and b) it … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Times, framing, humour
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In a perfect world, I’d have time to read the FT everyday
But I don’t. In fact, if I want to achieve the very cool collaborative projects over the coming months, I is gonna have to give up the pink’un pretty much completely. That’s a real pity, but she will still be … Continue reading
Labilia majora and volatility junkies
On being labile – (sorry, couldn’t help the blog post title. It was there. I had to use it. It would have been rude not to. Iam sure you all agree.) So, what is it with massive emotional peaks and … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, competence, fear, Financial Times
Tagged catastrophising
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Colonel Gaddafi and the days of the locust
What a lot of weight there is in that one word “effective” (final sentence of the quote). The death of Muammer Gaddafi continues to reverberate across Africa – this time in the form of desert locusts. Croplands in Niger and … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, climate, competence, death, economics, Financial Times
Tagged apocalypse, control-freakery, Libya, locusts, Nature's revenge
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Please Like this post. Please please pretty please. Or I shoot the puppy…
My only question – am I the ego-centric or the low self-esteemer? Now, these digital sharing sites have encouraged people to share more things, with many more people, and much more quickly than before. They have created a platform for … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Times, internet culture, narcissism
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Elephant seals and capitalism
This from the FT, April 29 2012, caught my eye. “Banks are like oversized elephant seals – evolved to maximise their own success at the expense of the species – and must be reined in by regulators to protect the … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Financial Times
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