The usual, annual post about books I read

I guess the positive side is United now have a decent enough squad to play any system under a new manager. Amorim ngmi.

What do you want to know?.

Listened to a 2hr podcast with Dwarkesh and Stephen Kotkin. Just sensational stuff, made all the better by the fact Kotkin sounds like Joe Pesci so its a bit like listening to an intellectual mobster who just got back from Stalin's Russia after seeing it all.

I reviewed F.Ote$'s memoirs. The things I do for you. You're welcome. Link🔗 in next tweet

Debit: PSR forcing big clubs to strengthen smaller clubs by selling bright prospects to them for “pure profit”. Credit:.

Rule by lawyers has its problems but a country governed by engineers could never produce this. Instead you’d get something like Two Whatevers or Three Represents. Swings and roundabouts.

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RT @NateSilver538: The most important research paper of the past 10 years is the Google transformer paper ("Attention Is All You Need") and….

RT @yuanyi_z: I think a lot about this tweet.

Hard to understand that United had an option to bring back Alvaro for half the price and went for Dorgu. He’s just not a good footballer. Nothing comes easy to him, 9 out of 10 actions ends in him falling over. I appreciate the physicality but man, it’s painful to watch.

Paying £63m for this Cunha carrying was totally worth it.

He is right but it misses something - this is a luxury only afforded to non-democratic societies. Everyone else has to learn the skill of persuasion, incredibly frustrating as it is, to get anything done. Or as @DeirdreMcClosk calls it: sweet talk

RT @CinemaTweets1: Sonny Corleone’s death in The Godfather is still a scene I hate watching. I hate when this comes up on rewatch. I can’t….

Silence as a mark of respect for departed people is one of the highest levels of civilisation.

RT @footballontnt: Premier League player pronunciations? . We’ve got you. 🤝🗣️

It’s not like the current one has worked so perfectly well that it didn’t need improving

Saw a story about a startup making a new and better type of inhaler and only then did it occur to me that the inhaler - silver canister inside blue plastic tube/sleeve - has looked exactly the same all my life. Why do some things just remain the same when everything else is.

Much to ponder here. Did the 17% defeat their haters? If so, how?.

RT @DamCou: Feynmann was a genius who, from youth, worked with geniuses and taught elite students for years; so his sense of "ordinary" was….