Andrew Martin
@andrewmartin.bsky.social
Strategy, futures and impact | London | andymartin.net
Summary: we should rejoin the EU, but we can’t, and we should reduce our security dependence on the US, but we can’t.
Anthony Zacharzewski@anthonyzach.be · 2d agoInteresting panel at #PolicyLive with @pollymackenzie.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social @oliviaosullivan.bsky.social and Mark Leonard, chaired by @jamescrabtree.bsky.social. Lots of agreement on how difficult the UK's challenge as the "middle child" is, and might become. Cut off from its
Reading about the Glenmutchkin Railway, a satire of Railway Mania. Revolutionary technology surrounded by unlimited capital and sketchy promoters. It all feels very current. www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/rrs...
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Bring me the terms of reference for the sub-committee for the Head of Alfredo Garcia
"What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing." (Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 1958)
"we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter" - Howl, Allen Ginsberg
"Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around." Milton Friedman
Iain Roberts@slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 2mo agoPeople under-estimate how much getting things done in government is down to having something ready to go when the opportunity arrives. You need a shovel-ready development, or a pre-written policy so when the moment comes you can say "Yes, give us the green light and we can do that right now."
Claude is fantastic at generating beautiful visualisations of the wrong data
This is one of the worst football matches I have ever seen, and I support SWINDON.
Argentina absolutely stinking the place out with their rancid anti-football. #worldcupfinal
People who don’t think the World Cup is corrupt have yet to account for the presence of two Spurs defenders in the Final #wcfinal #argspa
Anthony Zacharzewski@anthonyzach.be · 2mo agoBluesky not the only place where confident assertions rhat X or Y was bound to happen because FIFA was corrupt didn’t seem to be affected by X or Y then not happening. www.ft.com/content/6338... My journey down the rabbit hole at the Conspiracy World Cup
i've always said this
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2mo agoIs time a real thing, or could it just be in our heads? @jimalkhalili.bsky.social, professor of physics and author of the forthcoming book On Time (out 1 September), explains. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/BbSNz8AYClI?...
Five of Argentina's starting eleven play in the Premier League
Five of Argentina's starting eleven play in the Premier League
In a world of AI, charities need to decide whether they will fight the future or fashion it. open.substack.com/pub/philkerr...
In a post-AI world, charities need to decide whether to fight the future or fashion it
When you hear the term ‘Luddite’ at work, it’s often from a colleague using it to articulate that they are “not very good at computers”.
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HE governance shares the same fundamental problem as charity governance. It is designed for stewardship not leadership, assurance not innovation, and continuity rather than change. So it struggles to respond to the challenges it faces: substack.com/home/post/p-...
On University Governance
… beyond assurance
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Futural anomie: maybe the inability to imagine a common future isn’t a failure of imagination, but a collapse of the conditions that make imagining a common future possible. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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People are still using pre-2006 World Cup identities, but the brand rotation is real: France are the "Brazil" (glorious, abundant talent) England are the "Germany" (hard to watch, hard to beat) Italy are the "England" (haunted) Argentina are still Argentina (aggressive, cynical, with a magic #10)
A typology of philanthropy that highlights the risks of the prevalent monoculture that focuses on “getting to scale” by influencing state policy. The counter examples of philanthropy that takes a stand, builds power or elevates values are particularly compelling. #philanthropy @ssir.org
What Else Can We Do? The Thirteen Intentions of Philanthropy (SSIR)
A year of turbulence has exposed the dangers of philanthropic monocultures and upended assumptions about impact, effectiveness, and scale. Embracing the varied intentions that motivate people to give ...
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The UK is not a climate-sceptic country; it is a country of climate-concerned people who think they are surrounded by climate sceptics. The challenge is not persuasion. It is confidence.
Fascinating - you think other voters don’t care about climate? They probably do.
Andrew Martin@andrewmartin.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe UK is not a climate-sceptic country; it is a country of climate-concerned people who think they are surrounded by climate sceptics. The challenge is not persuasion. It is confidence.
The UK is not a climate-sceptic country; it is a country of climate-concerned people who think they are surrounded by climate sceptics. The challenge is not persuasion. It is confidence.
Fascinating little vignette about overthinking in the Harris campaign - "Bacon is a spice". youtu.be/VTqY-xmK7Eg?...
Kareem Rahma: Kamala Harris's 'Take' On My Show Was So 'Confusing & Weird', I Scrapped Whole Podcast
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"The view that technical, professional or scientific expertise should trump the vagaries of popular opinion or electoral volatility is not inherently progressive. Indeed, it looks rather like the views of mid twentieth century gattopardo conservatives." benansell.substack.com/p/pardogatto...
Pardogatto Progressivism
The switch in radicalism from left to right is the key challenge of our age
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