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2021iv9, Friday: (Not) getting things done.
Has productivity fallen because we're all doing things we're just not that good at? And tech's perversion of language.
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2021iv7, Wednesday: Gaslighting by government.
Two smart people find much to fear in the UK government's views on judicial review. For what it's worth, I feel the same. And a fundamental, and discriminatory, misunderstanding of objectivity.
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2021iv5, Monday: Deliberately rigged?
Right back atcha, CRED.
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2021iv2, Friday: Mixed measures and madness.
16 ounces. 8 pints. 32 degrees. Really? And thought-provoking writing on persuading the unpersuadable.
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2021iii31, Wednesday: Questions, questions.
With less than a week to go before new rules on witness statements in commercial litigation come into force, the problem remains: do lawyers still know how to ask questions?
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2021iii29, Monday: Wad some Pow'r...
Why condemning a little less and understanding a little more leads to better advocacy, and better humanity. Plus 20 years of a timeless operating system. And woodblock prints to take your breath away.
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2021iii26, Friday: Monster beamy.
Fat ships and hydrodynamics. And GCHQ makes the most of the fact that one of my heroes is now on a banknote.
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2021iii24, Wednesday: Does it add up?
The slipperiness of statistics, and why us advocates need to learn to love numbers. Plus: wise words from the US on design.
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2021iii22, Monday: font (mis)judgments.
Like many ex-hacks, I take fonts seriously. Clearly US judges don't - or rather, they do for the wrong reasons. More fool them.
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2021iii19, Friday: arbitrage while the music plays.
How long can Uber's "labour law arbitrage business" last?
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2021iii17, Wednesday: A bad bill.
The government's shameful misuse of the Sarah Everard affair to shore up support for an illiberal bill. And why video shouldn't supplant the chance to walk and talk.
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2021iii15, Monday: Enlightened laziness
A message of hope for procrastinators everywhere. And a depressing but unsurprising long read about Facebook's damaging take on AI ethics.