mjrobbins.bsky.social
Value of Nothing: https://open.substack.com/pub/martinrobbins
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Yeah, exactly that
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I wouldn't enforce it like with driving license, I'd have it as just a thing all kids do at school at a certain age. I just think more formal training opportunity across the population would be good (and give some people more confidence.)
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I think you just introduce it on the national curriculum for all school kids around 11 or 12, something you do a couple of afternoons on and get a proficiency badge for turning up and not killing the other children.
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You could have exemptions for accessibility for drivers, but it’s a useful thing for a driver to learn. And proficiency for cyclists could be as simple as an afternoon in secondary school, the ‘test’ is less important than completing a session.
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I think you’d say residential roads are fine but if you want to go on more major roads you do that from some sensible age like 12 or whatever.
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My unpopular/plebeian opinion is that most non-fiction books are about 50% too long.
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Frightening numbers of drivers are wrong about basic rules: not using both lanes to merge in turn (and getting road rage when others correctly ‘skip’ the queue), failing to give way to pedestrians when exiting junctions, sitting in the middle lane because it’s ‘safer’. Regular theories would help.
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Damn it man, stop posting spoilers!
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Cheers!
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Diana Henry is one of those people I just can’t find a bad recipe from, every one is a banger.
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Ah thank you! We’ll add a note next time.
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Today’s episode is also a bit of a love letter to the reporting of @edconway.bsky.social , whose Material World substack has become essential reading in all *waves hands around* this stuff going on. edconway.substack.com
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We’ve shied away from a general piece on ‘The Tariffs’ so far because a) we felt there are economist pods, etc, better placed than us, and b) they keep changing every five minutes. But I do like your angle(s) on some of the more specific downstream effects on construction etc., we’ll have a think
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Oh I don’t think it’s chess, purely instinctive, he loves the theatre of it and will want to keep doing it every few months.
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I sort of feel like he has to drop/lower the tariffs at some point soon because surely the whole point of the power play is to keep them hanging over people like the sword of Damocles. The Mafia can’t smash your windows if they’re still boarded up.
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Also true on defence/Ukraine, where the seeds of the current U.S. posture go back at least 10-15 years and were clearly visible during the Obama administration, arguably earlier.
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I love airports - there’s something relaxing about a liminal space where you have no power over anything.
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Last time I landed in Philadelphia I got point blank asked if I’d supported ISIS 😬
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I get this every time I go into the US, a solid half hour interrogation on my career highlights, travel, etc.
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This man is paid a lot of money.
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Immediately I’m seeing the words ‘tank’ and ‘logistics’ and I’m fully excited.