Archive of posts from 2021
Reading List, August 2021
What I’ve been reading and watching lately. A pretty good haul these last few months.
Compounding Problems
You can get by without cash, until the taxman comes calling. And a network of relationships can provide stability within its domain, but leave you fragile elsewhere.
Introductions Matter
An overly-analytical approach to some common business wisdom.
Setting Up Matomo
Nitty-gritty instructions for setting up self-hosted website analytics with Matomo.
Vengeance Is Mine
Violence and masculine trauma and impotence in rural Indonesia.
Ashenden
Gallivanting around Europe during WWI conducting light espionage.
Brighton Rock
Live for simple pleasures and take no shame in lust.
This Earth Of Mankind
The greatest Indonesian novel ever written.
Luck And Necessity
Retrospectively evaluate luck against a full counterfactual.
Making Movies
Being a film director is hard, and has a lot in common with business management.
Jigsaw Science
Jigsaw solving as a microcosm for science.