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new new rules for the new new economy drunken stumbles toward an economics of AI

13.03.2026 15:18 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Heads up - kindle daily deal! (Delete if you already own "The Unaccountability Machine!") Sorry to bother you in between proper posts, but it just struck me that not necessarily everyone has a copy of my last book, and the electronic version is currently on sale at an absolutely uneconomic price.

12.03.2026 11:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the misaligned organisation continuing to worry at a fascinating bone

11.03.2026 15:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the fudge must flow tolerance for ambiguity in investment

06.03.2026 15:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a failure of sense making new book alert

04.03.2026 18:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

what is real and what is fudge drawing a veil over the whole sordid business

25.02.2026 14:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

finally we have created the silver bullet from Fred Brooks' classic essay "No Silver Bullets"

20.02.2026 14:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

three times is political action the levers not working

18.02.2026 18:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

how to make your organisation dumber adding the term “adversarial context” to the lexicon

14.02.2026 17:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

why this, why now, why not? the digital euro and theories of action

11.02.2026 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

snobby about excel AI and the end user effect

06.02.2026 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is your organisation on drugs accounting hallucinations revisited

04.02.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

shiny happy weird and special the most interesting conversation I had last year

30.01.2026 15:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

what's WEIRDer than WEIRD? the politics of very specialness

28.01.2026 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

little mister ubiquitous is everywhere it's cute when I do it

23.01.2026 12:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

messing around for the sake of doing so why don't you just turn off the peer review system and go out and do something less boring instead

21.01.2026 15:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

everything I dislike is indefinably similar the vector of nastiness

16.01.2026 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

was the green lantern a good chap? on having one's head in the game

14.01.2026 11:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

how much, exactly, is my jobworth? the great ism of our times

09.01.2026 16:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the rise of lemonade socialism islands in the scheme, that is what we are

07.01.2026 15:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

creating the hallucination of price ways of looking at the elephant

19.12.2025 13:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the myth of merit in the managerial class tyranny of being good at exams

18.12.2025 16:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

what is once sprung cannot necessarily be unsprunged the problem of cognitive hysteresis

12.12.2025 17:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

seeing like an earthworm data and ricardo

10.12.2025 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the cold shoulder viral compliance and trust

05.12.2025 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

read it in the original a call for indications of interest

03.12.2025 18:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ways of vibing treatments and responses in the real world

26.11.2025 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

david ricardo is not easily denied the law of rent and its implications

21.11.2025 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

one small village resists no robots in the gaeltacht

14.11.2025 14:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the cognitive legion etrangere no shame in asking for help

12.11.2025 14:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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