"Make electricity cheaper" helps solve pretty much all of Europe's main challenges. The cheaper it gets, the faster we go.
Read this (and the other two papers) from @regassistproj.bsky.social who are knocking it out of the park.
Photo of Lawrence on stage in front of a large slide showing an internal dashboard timing trace of a multi-agent AI run
At @incident.io SEV0 watching @lawrencejones.dev show some of the internals of their AI SRE
The product itself looks absolutely fantastic and incredibly powerful
But the other thing that is a joy to see is the sheer quality of internal tooling they’ve built to learn and improve and monitor 😍
It’s critically important to enjoy your work. If you don’t? Find the enjoying work outside of your primary employment.
Watching the AI race atm.
New tech -> early adopters -> gold rush -> commodification-> consolidation.
We are exiting gold rush and entering commodification, will be interesting to see how the consolidation happens.
Is Penfold (the pension provider) having some technical difficulties? Not sure they are processing payments correctly.
I recently joined a new company, and my second week was for an offsite to Greece!
Surprisingly, not as corporate as I had feared, and giving me huge optimism for the future.
This is the right decision to have made. LFG 🚀
In general, it seems incredibly naive to believe the next generation should be forced to pay for the retirements of the previous, in a situation where the population pyramid is inverting.
The UK has no state pension fund!!
Reading “from third world to first” by Lee Kuan Yew.
All I can think about is what if the UK and broader western world adopted more of these policies? (Notably the mandatory pension savings, healthcare contribution, home ownership schemes, lowering taxes as a result)
British businesses are closing due to high electricity bills. Zonal electricity pricing would lower everyone's bills. Hear why business owners need change:
When did journalism change? When I did my journalism postgrad, we were taught to ensure the opening sentence summarised the key info.
Today's online 'news' writers must've been taught to ‘hide the key info until paragraph 14!' so people must tediously scroll through copious ads
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Just handed in my laptop and badge on my last day at Thought Machine. Had a wonderful time with talented colleagues, but excited for the next chapter!
This whole time, I thought I liked working at startups, but also this whole time, I’ve actually only worked at scale ups…
Why do startups pay such low salaries? Unironically isn’t that what VC funding is for?
The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
Massive shout out to @lawrencenewport.bsky.social for starting this cause and hosting a great event!
The talk by Dominic Cummings (dominiccummings.substack.com) was my favourite of the evening, it’s rare to get such an insight from the inside of No. 10, albeit concerning!
Went to a policy summit last night hosted by lookingforgrowth.uk
Brilliant event with some of the most ambitious and optimistic change-ready participants I’ve met! LFG 🚀
Article from The Times reads "The cost to consumers of dealing with cabling bottlenecks on Britain’s electricity network has risen by 60 per cent to more than £250 million in the first two months of the year as wind farms were paid to switch off and gas plants paid to replace them. The rapid expansion of offshore wind farms to tackle climate change has resulted in turbines being built before Britain’s transmission networks have been upgraded to carry all the power that they generate on windy days."
In 2025, GB billpayers have spent £250 million switching off renewable generators while switching on gas plants.
We’re wasting wind energy when we should be making it cheaper instead. Locational pricing would massively reduce waste and lower bills.
If anyone hasn’t heard about Gary yet, I’d highly recommend checking out some of his videos, as they offer the closest thing to a clear explanation of the state and projection of the economy I’ve seen.
Wondering why you can’t afford a house? Wealth inequality
#economics #WealthInequality
A big contrast:
From 2006 to 2023, China's nuclear energy production surged by 690%, rising from 55 TWh to 435 TWh.
Meanwhile, Germany's nuclear output plummeted from 167 TWh to zero, making it the only major economy to fully phase out nuclear power.
A kitchen installation in progress, with herringbone flooring and blue cabinets
About a quarter of the way through installing our new kitchen from @diykitchens.bsky.social
Ngl it’s a little bit nerve wracking but we think it’s going good so far, if a little slow!
#diy #kitchen #herringbone
I could have sworn this has been promised before and then pushed back?
Also an alternative strategy could be to have a landlord property tax that’s progressive based on the efficiency of the property.
I.e. 0% for EPC A, 0.1% for EPC B, 0.2% for EPC C etc
Strange thought: shouldn’t a society have the ability to easily and cheaply demolish any ungainly or negative value structures? Or at least as easily as it can create them?
The UK government is going to mandate all rental properties be an EPC C or above by 2030.
Honestly this feels too little, too late? For the properties that cannot be reasonably upgraded, I believe demolition should be an option!
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A few years ago I made a little device that displayed random quotes on a nice paper like display.
I promptly lost that device and all record of it, so I made another.
This is how you can make one too!
#eink #badger2040 #pimoroni #electronics #diy
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Spent the last week working remotely in Paris. Comparing it to London a lot!
Pros:
- Beautiful architecture/public spaces
- Rent control keeps the centre interesting
- Good cycling infrastructure
Cons:
- LVMH own the city
- Small apartments
- Few coworking cafes in the centre
Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.
You don’t see a 0% very often in polling - Brexit’s appeal, always narrow, has not expanded an inch (or a centimetre). And people who supported it at the time are mostly of the view that it made no difference. Few major political projects have failed so abjectly to become a settled consensus…
I doubt any additional capacity would be immediately absorbed by the aviation sector.
That being said, the UK could do with additional capacity / investing in its fundamental airports and national infrastructure!
