Heat in London makes me so homesick.

They finally brought a factory back to the U.S.

It hurts me to acknowledge that McKinsey has called this one correctly. The UK simply doesn’t take management seriously. www.thetimes.com/article/947d...

Profitable at €550,000. European manufacturing is competitive again. You love to see it!

I am strongly tempted to buy a Worldcon membership solely so that I can put this up for the Best Novella Hugo.

"Kardashev Type II Status" in an IPO filing ...

I used to ghostwrite for executives, who would say something incoherent, followed with ”but you can wordsmith that,” as if the act of creating meaning out of incoherence is just fancy poetry stuff

the amount of living mas the average american does in a day would kill a Victorian child

Hard day at the office. Inspecting trolleys, double checking switches, tying people to the track. But that’s life at the moral philosophy factory

Widow’s Bay is really fantastic. It really is like the town from Parks & Rec got dropped into a horror film.

Oh no, Karl Weick’s died. He had such a huge influence on the way we understand organizations. Such a terrible loss. But what an incredible life! Long may that be celebrated!

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

has any institution in your life, you, the american voter, delivered harder than the biomedical research complex? a fuckin respiratory virus shows up out of nowhere you get a vaccine ahead of schedule. meanwhile we're knocking out HIV and diabetes and goddamned pancreatic cancer on the side.

“Taxes are not a punishment. They’re the fuel in the engine of the republic, a positive affirmation of and direct investment in our values, and a system of incentives and disincentives to shape our collective vision of the good.”

A play in three acts giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"Net-zero is killing our economy" – Richard Tice, MP for Boston and Skegness

"You see, Andy, the ruling class controls the means of production. That gives them power over the state, no matter what you or I think. The government depends on business confidence, signalled via the bond market. At the end of the day, Makerfield—it just doesn't matter. Read a book."

My last two post. I contain multitudes.

My local Tesco metro is selling tall-ish boys of Modelo. It’s simultaneously made me happy and homesick.

Org design should take time more seriously. Latest from me on Substack. Committing to a weekly (minimum) posting schedule so why not sign up and keep me honest? open.substack.com/pub/generalr...

Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

All those apes gone, like tears in rain

I would simply not threaten people with a good time

I would simply not threaten people with a good time bsky.app/profile/atru...

It’s funny how arguably bright people can so willfully misunderstand how things work in the systems they claim to manage. The government’s idea is silly. Machin’s reply is equally so. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"Turns out that would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer extreme enticements or impose draconian punishments in order to make successful power grabs.They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool:the frustrated and mediocre."

This is what powers MAGA Exurban fear. Created and sustained by car culture dependency. www.axios.com/2026/05/19/e...

this is a masterpiece

@void.comind.network based on my posts how old do you think I am?

Nice to see some honesty on LinkedIn. Straightforward astrology, no AI wrapper. Just good old fashioned horseshit. Refreshing. www.linkedin.com/posts/renees...

I need a teaching post just so I can roll out TikTok’s like this! The best thing I’ve seen on how businesses create “demand” (here for AI).

Trump’s latest act of corruption (the 1776 fund) has made me realize how little I know about the plumbing of government payments. By what means are these funds allocated? How do they get paid? What translates this from claim to payment?

I have been told that certain celebrity girlboss influencers have issued a social media fatwa on this column. Therefore, I’m sharing it again because I’m just that kind of contrary.

Everyone involved in this corrupt robbery of the US treasury needs to go to jail

How do these people presume to know in advance whether university would be suitable for someone or not? I only understood what university could give me when I got there. If someone hadn't pushed me, I'd never have imagined it was for me.

I have been invited to give a speech at Princeton University's graduation! My speech will be entitled, "You are all expendable: how my technology will replace and impoverish you." I think it will go over great.

Gas stations pivot to maintain relevance in the electric transition. (These LinkedIn posts write themselves)

The kids are alright

What is going on with all the weird dependent clauses in this piece?

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

The efficacy assigned to Bluesky on other social networks makes me think commentators don’t really understand how anything actually works.

I went for a three hour walk today. I feel like a new man.

This has to stop

I think a lot of debates about “markets” vs “planning” in the abstract would benefit from thinking a bit more about how investment decisions are made in the economies in which we currently live. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Just discovered there is an ITT Harold Geenan chair at NYU. Not gonna lie, that threw me.

A friend has recently moved to Italy and I am amazed by the variety of locations - butchers, bread shops, tobacconists - where has to go to have things stamped.

Decluttering is like opening gifts from an earlier version of yourself. You saved this so you get the dopamine hit of throwing it out later.

Fundamentally, a lot of the problems in British politics comes from a political generation being forced to do something they think is a bad idea, to appease voters they think are wrong with beliefs they don't really understand.

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...