To be real clear - I am NOT an Airline Analyst. I haven’t even played one on TV. But I do tend to look around and question claims that seem spurious. (And in my time down in New Zealand, I do hear a large number of claims made that do not seem to add up).

🖇️ My take on Chris Luxon. If you don’t know the name, that’s because he’s no Jacinda Arden .. though he holds her office in Aotearoa

(I wrote this in response to a newsletter on Substack suggesting that despite being one of those CEO types, he’s not doing a great job as PM. My point is that despite the press, I’m not sure he was what good as a CEO!)

(Another old post that didn’t make it into the ether until now)

Western culture was built on one-way communication. Leaders and experts speak - and the rest of us listen.

💬 Ted Gioia

If you read Ted’s newsletter - you might have seen that quote recently… and YES>

BUT - there are some extensions that other people are writing about that I don’t agree with. Comments will follow.

My joke about mortality is that I know I’m in line for the exit, but I let others cut in. I wish Paul hadn’t.

💬 Doc Searls

I love those two sentences.

Sometimes something just hits you … this is one such moment

(It’s) … not that quantum physics has merely superseded classical mechanics, but that a beautiful and strange duality organizes our lives: predictable physics in everyday tools & work, uncertainty at the heart of all things.

💬 Sara Hendren

(@ablerism over on Micro Blog - 🔗website)

💬 Civil War In New Zealand?

💬 a fine piece of analysis from Kevin Drum.

“So are Sapiens and Neanderthals the same species or different species? And is “species” an objective reality that biologists discover, or is it an intersubjective reality that biologists impose?”

💬 Yuval Noah Harari

🔗🖇️ Coincidentally, have been exploring this idea as applied to Mathematics.

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