None of These

You cannot open Instagram these days without someone offering you the best prompt in the world, ever, guaranteed, for a product they built over the weekend using AI and a feeling. There is something genuinely comic about the collision between that energy and the threshold theorem in quantum error correction. This is not a piece about AI being overhyped. It is however, a convenient hook upon which to hype up this news. This hype, for once, is roughly in the right postcode. Joh

War is, structurally, one of the most reliable economic engines ever devised. The fact that this makes people uncomfortable is not an argument against it. It's just evidence that we prefer our economics to be morally convenient.

So here I am: re-reading Stoppard, debating impossible design specifications, and suddenly I'm seeing tautological pairs everywhere I look in ecommerce and I keep watching teams fight battles that Stoppard already explained were unwinnable.

I thought Robert Spangle was a suitcase brand. Then I though he was a bit of a knob. There. I said it.

I write everything with fountain pens. Yes, everything. Notes, drafts, shopping lists, the occasional great idea for a play that might become a poem. People think this is charming or eccentric or deeply impractical. It’s none of these things. It’s economic.

On my dressmaker, bespoke tailors and the nexus at which fit and function live.