Dan Davies @dsquareddigest
I definitely picked the wrong week to give up pointing at things and saying 'the purpose of a system is what it does' https://t.co/cP5vsFcHkU frontlineanalysts.com Joined November 2010-
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When it comes to intangible capital, there's a lot of dark matter relating to process knowledge and learning-by-doing. It makes me nervous about cost-based methods of measuring intangibles. This @dsquareddigest post has a good example, from Brompton. backofmind.substack.com/p/the-brompton…
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This is the best IOT episode ever for me. The bit where Melvyn Bragg audibly loses patience with the mathematicians over the travelling salesman problem and asks "come on how hard can it be" is for the ages.
This is the best IOT episode ever for me. The bit where Melvyn Bragg audibly loses patience with the mathematicians over the travelling salesman problem and asks "come on how hard can it be" is for the ages.
over at the 'stack, I talk process knowledge, the rise of China, Alfred Marshall on industry agglomeration and most importantly, folding bikes. backofmind.substack.com/p/the-brompton…
in which I cite an excellent post on the medium and its antimessage (what can't be expressed in that medium), and think about the implicit information environment of problems. also a couple of jokes. backofmind.substack.com/p/reject-premi…
The trouble with saying things like this is that if Paul is advocating tactical voting, he is self-expelling from the Labour Party. And if he isn't what's the point.
The trouble with saying things like this is that if Paul is advocating tactical voting, he is self-expelling from the Labour Party. And if he isn't what's the point.
whenever someone talks about "tradeoffs", be very careful backofmind.substack.com/p/the-control-…
summer posting, with a guest appearance from Caramel backofmind.substack.com/p/pet-sounds-a…
This is my distilled thoughts on "the purpose of a system is what it does" and what they mean for corporate culture and accountability
This is my distilled thoughts on "the purpose of a system is what it does" and what they mean for corporate culture and accountability
Let me try something... @grok be wyt ti'n meddwl am llosgi tai hâf? ffycia'r Saeson, yndi?
Dan Davies retweeted
The gates are opening for the affluent to invest in private credit. My latest in the @FT 👇 🧵
This podcast was a ton of fun to do
This podcast was a ton of fun to do
I keep worrying away at why the kind of communication channels I think the public sector needs, feel so wrong backofmind.substack.com/p/black-boxes-…
after a short hiatus, I return to the 'stack with an invention which will surely either prevent wars or cause them backofmind.substack.com/p/the-magic-bu…
https://t.co/bmYGM65aoq
in which, I *very* slightly revise my views on transport-led development backofmind.substack.com/p/traffic-jam-…
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Here's the link: prospect.org/power/2025-06-…
I return to a bugbear from the beehive (it's a sort of bear-hive) open.substack.com/pub/backofmind…
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