Oh, do you like maps? Do you like data visualisation? Roll in Richard Edes Harrison’s 1940s work for Fortune. Being me, I especially love The World of ITT – beautiful colour, network visualisation, weird globe projections, and it’s horribly clear why supporting dictators in Madrid and Rio was so important to them. You can’t see…
Read More InterestingMy initial response to today’s Labour policy rollout was as follows: @labour_partisan also, another way of hating the young. — Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) April 7, 2013 Thinking about it, though, this isn’t necessarily so. Presumably the idea is that people build up additional entitlement by paying their class III National Insurance contributions over the years…
Read More Labour market efficiencies from the Roses to the X factorSo, speaking of Clausewitz, here are some reflections from reading him. (If you think the blogs are a bit eclectic today, yes, I’m working through a queue of things I drafted in a notebook..) Zweck vs. Ziel – one of the things everyone sort-of knows about him is “the maintenance of the aim”, but I…
Read More A bit of ClausewitzEarlier this year, I had to spend a week or so with a 2004 vintage feature phone. For connoisseurs, it was one of the early 3G models from LG that 3UK launched with. This was an interesting experience. The first thing that comes to mind about it was that simple wasn’t simple. iPhones are simple;…
Read More I want one that just makes calls: no, you don’tSo, I’ve been having a war with my exciting privatised energy vendor. Again. We had a chat about this in this post on think-of-a-number prices, but another opportunity came around. The day before the monthly direct debit payment went out, a letter lands saying that they’ve just doubled, yes doubled, the amount. Thanks. Anyway, of…
Read More Reading Gambetta and Clausewitz in an emerging low-trust society