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The Algorithmic Butterfly
Having snagged a signed copy at his talk earlier in the week, I have spent my commutes reading Tim Harford’s Messy. It has been what I can only call “disconcerting”. It has felt as though Tim has crawled inside my head, extracted each of my techniques, systems, and inner infrastructures, and assigned them to different … Continue reading The Algorithmic Butterfly
Why Statistics Matter
I sometimes forget just how spoiled I am in Oxford. Like the time last term when I got to take part in a round table with one of my heroes, the French author Marie Darrieussecq, only a few days after I’d chaired a panel at Waterstones with the legend that is Philip Pulman. And this … Continue reading Why Statistics Matter
“Not for the likes of you”: How The Self-Improvement Industry is Failing People with Mental Ill Health
You are probably here because, among other reasons, you are, like me, ever so slightly obsessed by self-improvement books, articles, and videos. I devour self-improvement books, and I can usually pick up something from pretty much each one I read. But I also have a big problem. And with the self-improvement, how-to-succeed, be-a-successful-entrepreneur industry as … Continue reading “Not for the likes of you”: How The Self-Improvement Industry is Failing People with Mental Ill Health
All the Broccoli Became James Corden: The Problem of Finding Creativity’s Goldilocks Zone
In Originals, his brilliant tour through the inner and outer worlds of the world’s most innovative thinkers, Adam Grant tells us that these stars in our firmament have one thing in common. They fail more than other people. In his 2013 speech to London Book Fair, Neil Gaiman acknowledged this same trait with his call … Continue reading All the Broccoli Became James Corden: The Problem of Finding Creativity’s Goldilocks Zone
