Tim Harford
@TimHarford
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Author How To Make The World Add Up (UK) / The Data Detective (US). Cautionary Tales podcast. Undercover Economist at the FT. BBC More or Less. Views my own.
Oxford
Joined April 2009
Oo, first glimpses inside The Truth Detective, which is out next week! Ollie Mann has done a wonderful job bringing my ideas to life. For those asking, the book is aimed at 9-13 year olds, although I keep having to confiscate my copy from the grown-ups...
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"Whispers Beyond the Stars" - a new gamebook from Dave Morris and Pawel Dziemski - I know Dave is very excited about this project: https://t.co/nSNdEQEtL6
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A lovely, unsettling RPG scenario from Dave Morris... https://t.co/RaMDiobb9T
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Get more from Dave Morris on Patreon
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How to get things done in a world where our devices work for Big Tech, not for us:
timharford.com
Given how many things there are to rage-tweet about these days, it was almost a pleasure to stumble upon the hate for the Analog™ to-do list system, available from a Philadelphia-based design studi…
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"These days, I really only take note of fractally enshittified things, exponentially enshittified things, omnienshittified things..." @doctorow
Book of the day recommendation is Cory @doctorow 's "Enshittification" - a punchy, pungent and extremely smart guide to the Enshittocene. https://t.co/Y6ZjoUvgld
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How to get things done in a world where our devices work for Big Tech, not for us:
timharford.com
Given how many things there are to rage-tweet about these days, it was almost a pleasure to stumble upon the hate for the Analog™ to-do list system, available from a Philadelphia-based design studi…
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"Fela Kuti: Fear No Man" is MAGIC from @JadAbumrad and the team. https://t.co/cgF1JyM3mG
wnycstudios.org
In a world that’s on fire, what do we do with art? Like, what can music actually do? Today, Jad Abumrad is back with his first major project since Dolly Parton’s America. Fela Kuti: F...
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Santa Claus is a woman. Always has been. (Always will be?) https://t.co/hVkAAQ14Vh
ft.com
There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas
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Book of the day recommendation is Cory @doctorow 's "Enshittification" - a punchy, pungent and extremely smart guide to the Enshittocene. https://t.co/Y6ZjoUvgld
amazon.com
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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Book of the day recommendation is Cory @doctorow 's "Enshittification" - a punchy, pungent and extremely smart guide to the Enshittocene. https://t.co/Y6ZjoUvgld
amazon.com
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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Santa Claus is a woman. Always has been. (Always will be?) https://t.co/hVkAAQ14Vh
ft.com
There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas
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Great piece by @jburnmurdoch about the weird hollowing out of the UK tax system, how it compares with Scandinavia (vastly MORE progressive), and the strange reluctance of anyone in politics to talk about this truth. https://t.co/4nn8cCUpuK
ft.com
The UK’s experiment in eating the rich while shrinking the state has left everyone worse off
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If you're seeing the news about @rcbregman and are more interested in his ideas than the latest dust-up, I strongly recommend one of his books. Any of his books - they're all good, but my favourite is Humankind, which is fierce and optimistic: https://t.co/pLW9FQdcd7
amazon.com
If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that...
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Great piece by @jburnmurdoch about the weird hollowing out of the UK tax system, how it compares with Scandinavia (vastly MORE progressive), and the strange reluctance of anyone in politics to talk about this truth. https://t.co/4nn8cCUpuK
ft.com
The UK’s experiment in eating the rich while shrinking the state has left everyone worse off
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The Drunkard's Walk - How Randomness Rules our Lives. (Fun book by Leonard Mlodinow, finally emerged from bookshelf deep-freeze.)
amazon.com
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from...
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Here’s a direct link to an excerpt from my MAINTENANCE book titled “The Essential Art of Civilization.” It’s in Long Now’s annual magazine, PACE LAYERS.
longnow.org
What the U.S. Army’s idea of “sustainment” can teach us about how systems — and civilizations — endure.
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I've just been sent an advance copy of @stewartbrand 's "The Maintenance of Everything". I LOVE it. He has such a distinctive voice and such a surprising set of observations and ideas. Pretty-looking hardback: https://t.co/RRH3JyolMC Online draft:
books.worksinprogress.co
Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
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The hall-of-mirrors economy: don't trade where you tweet! https://t.co/81JfB8hCoG
ft.com
Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions
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