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Corporate lawyer. Collector of arcana, hoarder of essays and other literary curiosities.

Joined October 2015
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A cat gets fired, disappoints her father, and ends up working for a mysterious organisation that runs televised underground fights. The world-building, the increasingly bizarre plot – Catopolis is a wonderfully deranged little film. youtu.be/xYnv8tHyOJE?si=DnZ5…
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Indian parents have an extraordinary ability to locate an object you have been looking for over 45 minutes simply by walking into the room and asking what you are doing
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Leonard Cohen is to words what Michelangelo is to sculpture.
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I will hear no Americano criticism from people who drink dessert.
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Italo Calvino's 14 principles for defining a classic.
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Better known for his science fiction, H. G. Wells is rather delightful as an essayist. ‘Certain Personal Matters’ (1897) is full of sly social satire and affectionate mockery of human vanity. An altogether different pleasure from his celebrated fiction. gutenberg.org/ebooks/17508
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I don’t think artificial intelligence will replace humans anytime soon. Someone still has to explain to the printer that the document is, in fact, there
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"The Three Grace's" by Luigi Lucioni
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In Italo Calvino’s masterpiece, a 12-year-old boy climbs a tree after a family fight and vows never to come down. He builds an existence in the canopy – reading, befriending people, fighting pirates, and falling in love – without ever touching earth again. What a magical read!
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TIL the iconic James Bond theme song was based on a song composed for a musical adaptation of Naipaul’s “House for Mr. Biswas” From Patrick French’s Naipaul biography
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In 50 years, one of the most common deathbed regrets will be “I wasted my life on short-form videos” and the darkest part is they won’t even remember a single one
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Getting hammered before the hibernation season. Makes sense
A group of black bears raided a couple’s car for snacks in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, tossing their bottles of beer onto the pavement despite the couple’s attempts to scare them away.
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What happens to businesses whose competitive advantage is information when artificial intelligence makes information processing dramatically cheaper? The London Stock Exchange Group’s $3.535 billion acquisition of credit intelligence firm Octus provides an interesting case study.
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It is betting on proprietary data in an AI driven world. AI can process information faster, but it cannot automatically access information that is difficult to find, verify and structure. Octus specialises in precisely that kind of credit intelligence. wsj.com/business/deals/londo…
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Perhaps the next competitive advantage will not be essing more information, but owning information others cannot easily replicate.
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The first hints of winter call for a little Lata Mangeshkar and Sahir Ludhianvi. Sharing ‘Thandi Hawayein’ for the season. youtu.be/P6r3srBQz0k?si=CSlz…
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Too bad SpongeBob isn’t here to enjoy Spongebob not being here. -Squidward
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Just discovered a brilliant new abbreviation: ai:dr
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I often remind myself that one of the central tasks in this life is to cultivate sensitivity to the sacred and the beautiful, despite the forces that barge in from all sides to desensitize and drain the spirit.
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