Dan Davies
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I definitely picked the wrong week to give up pointing at things and saying 'the purpose of a system is what it does' https://t.co/cP5vsFcHkU
Joined November 2010
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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
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RT @stianwestlake: When it comes to intangible capital, there's a lot of dark matter relating to process knowledge and learning-by-doing. I….
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RT @dsquareddigest: This is the best IOT episode ever for me. The bit where Melvyn Bragg audibly loses patience with the mathematicians ove….
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RT @KalshiSports: HATER: Someone just put over $52,000 on the Eagles to LOSE tonight. It'll payout more than $209,000 if they're right🤯 htt….
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over at the 'stack, I talk process knowledge, the rise of China, Alfred Marshall on industry agglomeration and most importantly, folding bikes.
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in which I cite an excellent post on the medium and its antimessage (what can't be expressed in that medium), and think about the implicit information environment of problems. also a couple of jokes.
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The trouble with saying things like this is that if Paul is advocating tactical voting, he is self-expelling from the Labour Party. And if he isn't what's the point.
At the next election there will be a choice - deport 600k ethnic minority people by force, to countries that will kill them, or not. Anyone who splits the progressive vote will go down in history as responsible for that ✊🚩.
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This is my distilled thoughts on "the purpose of a system is what it does" and what they mean for corporate culture and accountability.
Don't miss the article by Daniel Davies (@dsquareddigest), author of "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind," in our 2025 Compendium!. Davies challenges the prevailing notion that accountability for organizational
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Let me try something. @grok be wyt ti'n meddwl am llosgi tai hâf? ffycia'r Saeson, yndi?.
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Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.
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RT @huwsteenis: The gates are opening for the affluent to invest in private credit. My latest in the @FT 👇. 🧵
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This podcast was a ton of fun to do.
When @rorysutherland says you have to speak to Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) about his latest book you have to sit up and listen!. Dan is recognized for his insights into how business markets work and his motto is “if you don’t make predictions, you won’t know what to be surprised
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I keep worrying away at why the kind of communication channels I think the public sector needs, feel so wrong.
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after a short hiatus, I return to the 'stack with an invention which will surely either prevent wars or cause them
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Llongyfarchiadau Sir William John Boston KBE 🏴. The boy from Tiger Bay who became a Knight⚔️. A very proud day for Billy, his family and Wales Rugby League. PA Media 📷
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in which, I *very* slightly revise my views on transport-led development.
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Lightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its...
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Lots of finance bros in the replies who don't seem to understand that the aim of investment banking is to make money rather than to be highly ranked on wall street oasis dot com.
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"top undergraduate talent" is just such a funny concept. oh noes, JPM will have to get its PowerPoint slides edited by 21 year olds who were secretary of the banking society rather than president of the finance society, how will they ever make money again.
BREAKING: JPM TO FIRE ANALYSTS IF THEY ACCEPT ANOTHER OFFER DURING THE FIRST 18 MONTHS OF EMPLOYMENT . This is one of the most stupid emails I have seen in a long time:.- JPM banking program was already mediocre, top undergraduate talent was already not going to work there as a
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I return to a bugbear from the beehive (it's a sort of bear-hive).
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