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Consultant CTO, runner, former musician, Norwegian / New Zealander / Brit floating between the U.K. and Scandinavia. Interested in all things finance, healthcare, ethics, economics and engineering leadership.
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You should start a company if you’re unreasonably compelled to do it. You haven’t stopped obsessing for a month. If you don’t, you’ll regret it forever. Otherwise, you won’t maintain the motivation when you run into the next few years of emotional devastation.

Am worried about the drought here. Will we have enough water? Will all the nature die?? It’s horrible.

Anyone else terrified by the Trump Saudi arms deal?

It’s interesting how LLMs are wider than any human, but shallower than the best humans. (At many things; not, e.g. chess) It can’t do customer service as well as the best humans, but it can do it in 100 languages, which no human can. (1/5)

So Bulgarians go to gaol for spying for Russia and not Nigel Farage?? Seriously??

This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Wait what??? 😱 www.npr.org/2025/05/10/n...

Nowhere near enough media coverage about the interconnection between the destruction of content moderation, the proliferation of LLM "generative AI" bullshit engines, the death of consensus reality/knowledge making, misinformation and disinformation, & the aims of Western authoritarians and fascists

I see now the hyper speculation period has ended that anyone with capital is looking to extract more value from existing assets. So leave the hard work of early stage to other people. I can’t see a lot of early stage funds being around in the next 2-3 years.

Starbase feels a bit like a gold rush era town? Temporary somehow.

This is a terrifying threat to our national and personal security. If you are American, please stop and tell your representatives—now—that you expect them to defend our public health, including using their power to remove personnel who are dismantling our defenses under a fig leaf of quackery.

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Will Lewis is Chief Exec of the Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos. He was also Rupert Murdochs criminal fixer. Gordon Browns article in The Guardian is a worthy read. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Who's in the mood for some grim fucking reading? 'Cause I'm in a grim fucking mood, 'cause of the fucking grim outlook. "Innovation and adopting innovations requires trusted and functioning institutions. The US and Europe have neither" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/innovat...

Will Apple and Meta pay the absolutely enormous EU fine? Probably not and probably it’s peanuts to them.

Read a worrying report today entitled “a framework for insolvency” which was for bigtechs. Can you imagine if one failed?? 😨 a possibility now the SV elites are sucking all the capital out of the investment cash cows they had I guess.

“In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use; however, as the cost of using the resource drops, if the price is highly elastic, this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption to rise.” Wikipedia

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/07/c...

Dog in bluebells today the owner is finally moving around.. similar to the undead 🧟

I see SXSW has launched a line up of large corporates for its London event. Given rates of attendance are dropping for tech conferences I surprised they think this will be a big sell out event.

I think anyone with a server in Europe that’s not owned by the US big tech ecosystem will broadly be popular right now. www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/04/...

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

I swear the activists of now are the politicians of the future. Let’s hope so at least there has to be a better way to get people with the right motivations into power.

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Liz truss does truth social.. Oh please god no.

Can someone invent an anaesthetic which knocks you out for a whole week until the worst bits of the illness have passed?

$32B pre-product valuation!!! Completely bonkers frankly. No way this is not capital extraction. It’s not enough to be a millionaire anymore you have to be a get rich quick billionaire or fail. Depressing. www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai...

This really is pretty scary www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/04/...

More people are interested in Coachella than blue origin today I think.

Welp got a horrible infected cut from the accident last week. Still have to go get the arm scanned for a broken bone but too sick to leave the house at the moment. Virus + antibiotics 🥲 the flu was bad enough. Can’t wait for this part of my life to be over.

Just remembering that my first Substack post after leaving the Times was about the fraudulence of DOGE. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...

Yep everyone keep laughing and pointing at the clown act while the 1% insider-trade their way to even more wealth. It's not even subtle.