by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | Reading
Demography: A tale of three islands | The Economist. Who’d have thought one could learn so much about demography. Despite the exponential chart, would you have guessed that 3.2 billion people live in countries with a fertility rate of 2.1 or less and that...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Class. 11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. via by Lemony Snicket – OccupyWriters.com.
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Reading
Hiromitsu Shinkawa and the Japan Tsunami Rescue Story: GQ. Remarkable and moving story of the man who survived three days on the roof of his house after the Japan earthquake and tsunami. That’s enough reading for this week.
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading, Science
Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? Elite athletes use a whole raft of coaches to help them peform more effectively. So do elite musicians. Why shouldn’t elites in other sectors such as medicine, business and government administration?...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Scott Adams Blog: Creativity Spurt. As the man himself would say, don’t take advice from cartoonists. However, it is an interesting thought that society is well placed to take part in some substantial new thinking about the way the state works now we know it is...
by Tom | Oct 19, 2011 | Business, Reading
AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW? – Global Guerrillas has this terribly depressing chart showing how we have managed to destroy the connection between productivity and wages. We have to get this back on track, I think. Separately, if we are looking for one of the...
