There’s a story told of the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli that a friend showed him the paper of a young physicist that he suspected was not very good but on which he wanted Pauli's views. Pauli remarked sadly "It is not even wrong”. For a theory even to be wrong, it must be predictive and…
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The good part about naming a talk in 2017 ‘Notes from an Emergency’ is that there are so many directions to take it. The emergency I want to talk about is the rise of a vigorous ethnic nationalism in Europe and America. This nationalism makes skillful use of online tools, tools that we believed…
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Today, Sift Science welcomed Russ Fujioka as our President & COO. Russ helped grow Adobe from a $40 million company to a billion-dollar category leader, led enterprise efforts at Dell, and most recently served as President of the Americas at Xero. I’m thrilled to welcome him and his expertise as we…
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I t was night, stormy, and the oil rig Transocean Winner was somewhere in the North Atlantic on 7 August 2016 when her tow-line broke. No crew members were on board. The rig was being dragged by a tugboat called Forward, the tethered vessels charting a course out of Norway that was meant to take…
‘Rich people really, really don’t get it’ … Steve Hilton.Photograph: Robert Gumpert for the Guardian S teve Hilton’s office looks so typically San-Fran tech-startup that it could be the work of a set designer. Surfaces are matt white, the centrepiece is the kitchen, and there are various bins for…
Fergus Granville should be a gift to a journalist. He is an Earl, laird of the Isle of North Uist and seriously good looking, with eyes so blue you'd think they were contacts. He has a blonde-haired, jean-clad, photogenic wife and adorable children, his slightly dilapidated house is full of dogs,…
This is the third post on where Executives and Agile Experience diverge. It relates to the attitude towards creating a safe environment to work in and in particular the attitude towards “Get it done” individuals. “Get it done” Individuals Executives love “Get it done” individuals. “Get it done”…
President Obama signing the health insurance reform bill at the White House in 2010. Doug Mills/The New York Times You hear it from Republicans, pundits and even some Democrats. It’s often said in a tone of regret: I wish Obama had done health reform in a bipartisan way, rather than jamming through…
COLCHESTER, England — After Prime Minister Theresa May gave a bullish speech last month outlining her plans for Britain’s negotiations to leave the European Union, the front page of The Daily Mail, a right-wing tabloid, displayed a triumphant cartoon depicting Mrs. May, head thrust proudly into the…
I n the plans that exist for the death of the Queen – and there are many versions, held by Buckingham Palace, the government and the BBC – most envisage that she will die after a short illness. Her family and doctors will be there. When the Queen Mother passed away on the afternoon of Easter…
1. Just before Christmas 1953, the bosses of America’s leading tobacco companies met John Hill, the founder and chief executive of one of America’s leading public relations firms, Hill & Knowlton. Despite the impressive surroundings — the Plaza Hotel, overlooking Central Park in New York — the mood…
In Mongolia, often known as the land of the blue skies, the sun shines for 250 days on average each year. It beats down on the sparse plains and on the Gobi desert that spans the country's southern border with China. It shines, even during the frigid winter days, on the hundreds of thousands of…
An abandoned building in Owsley County, Kentucky. Mario Tama/Getty Images MATTERDALE, England — I am a traditional small farmer in the North of England. I farm sheep in a mountainous landscape, the Lake District fells. It is a farming system that dates back as many as 4,500 years. A remarkable…
Quantum Theory is so hot right now even English majors like myself want to get in on the act. Unfortunately, the image above represents “post truth” advertising. I can neither speak, read, nor write math, which definitely puts limits on where I can get directly involved. But, ah, when it comes to…
What kind of economist should I be when I grow up? The opening weeks of the year have brought an embarrassment of answers. Andrew Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England, won headlines for comparing economists to weather forecasters. Alas, it was not a flattering comparison: Haldane…
This is a photo of my grandfather, Will Jenkins. It was taken in 1909, when he was 13. He made the glider himself and took it to Cape Henry, about 17 miles by trolley from Norfolk, where his first flight took him eight feet, and his last that day took him 40 feet and broke one of his uprights. They…
We are once again engaged in an argument about facts. Such arguments can feel deceptively substantive. This one certainly does. Last week, it emerged that the Central Intelligence Agency had concluded that in the later stages of the presidential campaign Russia acted not merely to disrupt the…
George Osborne and Yuval Noah Harari meet in late October (before the US election) at Osborne’s office in Portcullis House, both 300 yards and a million miles away from his old digs at 11 Downing Street. Harari is an Israeli historian, feted by the likes of Bill Gates and Barack Obama for his book…
The island of South Uist (pop. 1,950) in the Outer Hebrides considers itself badly served by Caledonian MacBrayne's car ferry services. SU's primary connection with the mainland is the ferry from Lochmaddy on North Uist (linked to SU by causeways) to Uig on Skye (linked to the mainland by a bridge).…
Image 1 of 6 Water reflects the unchanging face of Cothay - built at the end of the 15th century Photo: TIM BEDDOW Image 1 of 6 The strong lines and exuberant planting of the garden provide a magical setting for this ancient house Photo: TIM BEDDOW Image 1 of 6 Beneath the oak-beamed ceiling of the…
Idle Words > Talks > Who Will Command The Robot Armies? This is the text version of a talk I gave on November 11, 2016, at the Direction conference in Sydney. When John Allsopp invited me here, I told him how excited I was discuss a topic that's been heavy on my mind: accountability in automated…
Did I just vote for Donald Trump to become the President of the United States of America? Did I also vote for the UK to leave the European Union just a few months ago? If you’d asked me yesterday, I would have been pretty confident that the answer to both questions was ‘no.’ Indeed, I’m not a US…
W hat we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven…
A new study of the porn industry tries to sidestep ideological battles, with a neutral, fact-driven approach. Credit Photo Illustration by Sara Cwynar If you watch pornography, it’s likely that you do so on the Internet. The days when consuming pornography meant buying or borrowing a pinup magazine…
It is true that, unlike (for example) our referendum on the alternative vote , Parliament chose not to make the EU referendum legally binding. This point, along with many similar, is available to be made. But it is a whine made from sour grapes. It is available but it fails to address head on the…
Democratic governments face a dilemma. On one hand they want to pursue policy – which is almost always contested – and on the other they need to retain support to justify their use of power and to boost their chances of re-election. They try to achieve both by making a series of arguments over the…
Mobile phones and then smartphones have been swallowing other products for a long time - everything from clocks to cameras to music players has been turned from hardware into an app. But that process also runs in reverse sometimes - you take part of a smartphone, wrap it in plastic and sell it as a…
W hen a sleepy Marc Dubois walked into the cockpit of his own aeroplane, he was confronted with a scene of confusion. The plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments. An alarm was alternating between a chirruping trill and an automated voice: “STALL STALL STALL.” His…
Sometimes you can catch important things about human nature in apparent incidentals. It’s well observed that between the ages of around one and twelve, many children manifest a deep attachment to a stuffed soft object, normally shaped into a bear, a rabbit or – less often – a penguin. The depth of…
In his history of the erotic obsession Western men have felt toward “the Orient,” Richard Bernstein begins with what must have been the most inflammatory example he could find: A blog titled “Sex in Shanghai: Western Scoundrel in Shanghai Tells All,” in which an individual referring to himself only…
THE title of this post is the question that—more than ever before—I find myself asking following the Liberal Democrats’ just-finished gathering in Brighton. It was my fourth Lib Dem conference. My first, also in Brighton, was in 2012. Back then, too, the talk was of the party’s identity crisis. Two…
Hey. . .the fish don’t know it’s a shopping cart. Photo by Phil Monahan With a sparsely attended Catholic church at one end and a Taco Bell at the other, Benmont Avenue is representative of the hard times that have befallen many American mill towns. This is not the scenic Vermont of postcards, but…
Donald J. Trump at a rally in Altoona, Pa., on Friday. Dismissing accounts that Mr. Trump was downcast, a spokesman pointed to the crowds the nominee draws. Mark Makela for The New York Times Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man…
June 23, Year of Mossack Fonseca Tax Solutions Neville Smethwick wakes early and leaps from bed to draw his curtains onto a world of birdsong, bunting and beer tents. He hums to himself as he dresses, pulling on breeches, bellpads, a baldric, clogs, his cherished silk-trimmed boater, his…
DONALD J. TRUMP, until now a Republican problem, this week became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament. He is mounting a campaign of snarl and sneer, not substance. To the extent he has…
“Never let a good crisis go to waste” decried Winston Chuchill. A sentiment I was reminded of via Doteveryone Ceo Russell Davies in the turmoil of the last week. These are particularly poignant words in light of the vote to leave the European Union. I cant be certain but I imagine that a high…
Is cynicism overrated? My question is strategic rather than moral. Even if your ambition is worldly success alone – with no regard for your own happiness, let alone anyone else’s – would that end be best served by mastering an exclusively self-interested approach? Leaving aside the wider issue of…
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