Category: General
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Hastings
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Forgotten transit wisdom
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Cinema in the age of streaming media
I went to see The Current War yesterday. It was mostly just me.
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Execution, not policy
From a recovering management consultant: McKinsey is capitalism distilled. It is global, mobile, flexible, and unabashedly pro-market and pro-management. The firm has an enormous stake in things continuing more or less as they are. Working for all sides, McKinsey’s only allegiance is to capital. As capital’s most effective messenger, McKinsey has done direct harm to…
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The kids are all right
Greta Thunberg interview at Teh Graun. Full of things I already know be true, but which I nonetheless struggle to articulate through the weary cynicism of four decades of life under capitalist realism. The killer line: We must focus on what we can do. Not what we can’t do. It’s true. It’s also difficult. That’s…