The prophet speaks
I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching old Modern Jazz Quartet concerts, as a quartet and as individuals. This is one of my favourites. Milt Jackson, just a few months before he died at 76.
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The London Review of TikToks - special complexity edition
I was recently very annoyed by an episode of Past, Present, Future about how short-form video is a Bad Idea. It was lazy and silly and I vowed to make a short form video rebutting it all. (I haven't done that yet, probably because of my terribly-
Cutting the wrong things
Some good stuff in here "We're maintaining institutional complexity by transferring its cost downwards and calling it efficiency." "The problem is that cultural risk and organisational waste were being subsidised by the same cheap money, and we learned to treat them as the same kind
The defense of open
I've been a fan of Matt Jukes for ages. He has a deep commitment to digital public service. He has a sly sense of humour. He puts his effort where his mouth is and his heart on his sleeve. A little while ago he wrote a blog post
Interesting Assemble with Dr Helen Castor
As previously discussed we're trying an experiment with an online mini-Interesting on September 30th. One short talk and then some discussion. Our guest will be the historian Dr Helen Castor who talked at Interesting 2016 about Digging Up Kings. I'm hoping we'll find