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get your zingers ready, as this week I am writing about the uses of boredom backofmind.substack.com/p/boredom-is-a…

the case for digital euro in a nutshell

the crash report on Mike Lynch's yacht Bayesian is out and at least one and possibly more of the crew deserve a medal 1/2

wednesday 'stack, in which I make the case that ubiquitous unregulated agentic AI is quite simply impossible backofmind.substack.com/p/transparency…

I assume the factcheckers will be all over this? 🤔 (You'd have to be an idiot to think that the fall in net migration last year was anything to do with policies introduced by the government elected in July, but that's apparently what Starmer wants us to believe... 🙄)

In the New York Times today! Me and Henry Farrell, suggesting that bringing stable coins into the mainstream financial system is likely to take a few more Jenga bricks out of global dollar hegemony nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

Bank analyst here - this seems cute but it isn't. Wall Street banks only do this when they're very stressed about domestic revenues.

Are stablecoins like bank deposits, or are bank deposits like stablecoins? Or more simply: with Visa, Zelle & Venmo, why do we need to upend the financial system with stablecoins? Why not just Alipay for dollars? Great read via Robert Armstrong ft.com/content/625f9f… via @ft

Echoing Paul Davies recommendation to buy Dan Davies eye-opening new book exploring the theories of management cybernetics as it relates to the modern era as so much of humanity is now organized into such complex bureaucracies, which I reviewed for Booksin5 below! 1/5

OK let's sort this out once and for all - over at AV I produce a "Sandwich Alignment Chart" to determine whether stablecoins are banks ft.com/content/60e2b0…

at the 'stack, something which has been bugging me for a while about an AI proverb backofmind.substack.com/p/were-not-so-…

Here she is, captain of the winning team in the ESU Public Speaking Schools Competition (one of only two state schools in the finals)

I return to a bugbear from the beehive (it's a sort of bear-hive) open.substack.com/pub/backofmind…

Here's the link: prospect.org/power/2025-06-…

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in which, I *very* slightly revise my views on transport-led development backofmind.substack.com/p/traffic-jam-…