Some podcasting for democracy
https://twitter.com/InfiniteL88ps/status/1475453302653349890 Hi All. Just to let you know of a podcast I did with Jim O'Shaugnessey's program "Infinite loops". You can download it from this...
Geoff Harcourt: RIP
[caption id="attachment_35800" align="alignleft" width="2560"] Geoff as I remember him[/caption] As many readers will know, Geoff Harcourt one of Australia's distinguished economists died recently aged 90....
Me on investing and innovation policy at #Tech23
In 2011 I think it was, I presented Kaggle to Tech23 an organisation that held an annual awards and rewards process for the best start-ups....
Standards Part Three — Perverse by design: Parasitic comparative standards
Continued from Part Two. [caption id="attachment_35753" align="alignright" width="440"] If we had an epidemic preparedness index, we could have a league ladder of epidemic preparedness. Then...
Cut from the same cloth: Oscar and Ned
This is an essay I wrote in 2005 and published in Eureka St which I don't think I've published on Troppo, and since it's my...
Czesław Miłosz: Alpha, the Moralist
Czesław Miłosz is a Polish writer and Nobel Laureate who first came to Western attention in the early 1950s with the publication of The Captive...
Standards Part Two: Comparative Standards
Standards: continued from Part One. [caption id="attachment_35719" align="aligncenter" width="270"] Why is this man smiling?[/caption] I. Introduction Why is this man smiling? He's smiling because he...