- Great TED talk on how fast technology is eliminating any pretense that we will have privacy (e.g., pitching adverts to you with “spokespeople” whose faces are copied from photos of your Facebook friends).
- In the 1870s came rail and steamship technology, which brought economic gains (via larger markets) and social oppression (via colonialism).
- How Amsterdam’s government doubled down on failed decisions regarding its metro.
- The Dutch are dealing with their “9/11” differently. They know the Russians are responsible, but they cannot invade. It will be a patience game.
- Russia tried to shut down Telegram and kneecapped itself. (Read this to learn of how little privacy Russians have online: your name and address costs only $0.01.) I use Telegram because I trust its encryption more than I trust WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) with anything. Telegram is a Russian app, btw 😉
- Watch this video on the challenges entrepreneurs face in Senegal (typical for developing countries). Want more? Watch Poverty Inc.
- Mr Money Mustache explains cost accounting, i.e., why avoid > rent > buy.
- Behavioral economics starts to grow up (less hype, more balance)
- Work norms in America are killing people.
- A very long introduction to the claim (and probably fact) that “Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace,” i.e., egalitarian life did not end when hunter gatherers moved to cities.
H/T to CD