Category: General

  • books read 2022

    Yep, it’s that time of year again. 103 books finished (of which 20 were graphic novels); dates indicate when I finished reading; one asterisk means a re-read, two asterisks a second re-read, three asterisks a many-times-re-reading; a zero indicates a book left unfinished. Graphic novels Maggie the Mechanic Jaime Hernandez 19 Jan * The Girl…

  • that was the year that was

    Navel-gazey reflective end-of-year stuff; feel free to skip! The Practice A(nother) year in notebooks… the thicker one is a kind of catch-all/commonplace book, and the two thin ones topmost are specifically work-focussed, but the rest are morning pages only, the dedicated medium of the Practice, of which this has been the fifth full year. The…

  • the theology of capital

    The primary product sold by all management consultants – both software developers and strategic organisers – is the theology of capital. This holds that workers are expendable. They can be replaced by machines, or by harder-working employees grateful they weren’t let go in the last round of redundancies. Managers are necessary to the functioning of…

  • revenant meme

    Blog memes: they were a thing in the Noughties, y’know. [grandpa-simpson.gif] Now Matt Webb’s bringin’ sexy back*, and I figure, why the hell not, given it’s books, and I can’t resist a humblebrag about books. So, four questions: How many books do you own? I can’t cite a precise number, but I can state a…

  • payin’ the dues

    It’s been one hell of a year. Those of you who’ve been following along will know that in addition to actually finishing my Marie Curie postdoc at Lund—or, perhaps more accurately, coming to the end of the duration of my Marie Curie funding; the project itself looks set to have some sort of continuing existence…