I bought this old book at the Suffolk seaside today. I found the signature at the front -- 'Constance Wood / Christmas 1940' -- very moving. Such a gentle collection of poems, something so optimistic about the 'Christmas', and yet so much horror was about to unfold in her world.

Really enjoyed this The Nation review essay of GROWTH: A RECKONING, in which Benjamin Kunkel takes aim at the book ...

Thanks to Harry Quilter-Pinner for the shout out in this thoughtful piece on why growth is a moral mission, as well as a material one.

This is very well put. And for me, this mismatch, between the scale of Britain's problems and the smallness of Labour's response, makes their current approach to tech / AI -- a rare source of optimism and sense of progress -- a little puzzling.

Thanks to joshmkim for this thoughtful piece on what GROWTH: A RECKONING might mean for universities.

For those in London, this will be brilliant.

Also note that, for every job type, the majority are either "not engaged" or "actively disengaged". In short, most people do not like their work. Yet discussions of work (and its future) assume the opposite -- that there is strong link between work and meaning / purpose for most.

Chiang's definition of art as "something that results from making a lot of choices" doesn't help us think about the future. Many artworks follow from a few choices (e.g. Duchamp's urinal) and many non-artworks follow from many choices (e.g. a multi-lingual dishwasher manual).

Dylan Thomas reads "1 September, 1939", by W. H. Auden. -- youtube.com/watch?v=ED4sN1…

Looking forward to joining Martin Wolf and Gillian Tett at the FT Weekend festival this Saturday. -- ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/agenda/session…

Echoing Hugo Gye recommendation to buy Daniel Susskind fantastic new book investigating how economic growth became the North Star of modern society and why a full-on transformation of this goal is required for humanity to progress, which I reviewed for Booksin5 below! 1/5

Delighted to have this essay, "We Must Change the Nature of Economic Growth", in the new issue of the IMF magazine. -- imf.org/en/Publication…

For context, you have to go from *1997 to 2024* to get this amount of productivity growth (26.08%) across the UK economy as a whole. We must take these technologies more seriously than we are at present.

I'll be live on NPR later today for an hour or so, talking about my new book, GROWTH: A RECKONING. Do tune in here ... -- wbur.org/onpoint/2024/0…

Thoroughly looking forward to being part of this important project. Do submit abstracts below, if interested.

Thoroughly enjoyed this NPR interview with Meghna Chakrabarti, on economic growth. -- wbur.org/onpoint/2024/0…

A rising GDP has become the sacrosanct measure of a nation's wellbeing…Makes sense, doesn’t it? Or “Is it time to dare to question our belief in unfettered growth?” Meghna Chakrabarti interviews Daniel Susskind about his book GROWTH: A History and A Reckoning wbur.org/onpoint/2024/0…

Hid my six-year old daughter's rollerskates, due to likelihood of injury. Just found these.

Daniel Susskind, the author of Growth, and Martin Wolf, FT chief economics commentator, are having a conversation with Gillian Tett, Provost of King's College, FT columnist, and editorial board member, on 'Doing Business in a Polycrisis World' at the #FTWeekendFestival.

Thrilled to be joining the Digital Futures Institute at King's College London as a Research Professor. It is a brilliant group of interdisciplinary scholars working on some of the most important questions we currently face. -- kcl.ac.uk/news/digital-f…