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From the desk

Writing

Essays, ideas, behind the books and the questions that keep coming back.

Essay

Perhaps efficiency is not the highest human virtue

We have become remarkably good at measuring human life. But what happens when the things that matter most are also the hardest to measure?

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Note

What exactly are we trying to optimise ourselves for?

A question worth following without rushing to tidy it up.

Behind the books

How an idea becomes a book

A home for notes about the work behind the work.

Humanity

The things that remain difficult to measure

Meaning, memory, presence, loyalty, wonder and the rest of the inconvenient human stuff.