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Assumption Sages
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Unknown (often attributed to...
hbsingh
Apr 254 min read
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Tech trade-offs
'It was the best of times; it was the worst of times' - Charles Dickens I hesitated before writing this. Who am I to generalise, to...
hbsingh
Apr 144 min read
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Luxury beliefs
“People care a great deal more about appearance and reputation than about reality.” - Jonathan Haidt , The Righteous Mind Are beliefs the...
hbsingh
Mar 174 min read
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Death by process
“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.” - Albert Einstein Where to go next? It feels in the day that Amazon can get a product to...
hbsingh
Mar 94 min read
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80/20 rule and life decisions
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee Outsize outputs come from a small group in inputs. If...
hbsingh
Feb 73 min read
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2025 Focus and 2024 Review
"Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore" - James Clear What to focus on this year? Dear readers thank you for joining me in this...
hbsingh
Jan 313 min read
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Free speech - real talk
It's time to have a grown up conversation around free speech... What's the real story of free speech today? Free speech was back in the...
hbsingh
Jan 185 min read
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2024 - Winners and Losers
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker If someone had...
hbsingh
Dec 23, 20244 min read
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The Risk of Excessive Caution
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." – Lao Tzu My biology teacher used to joke, "A pessimist is a man...
hbsingh
Nov 27, 20243 min read
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Did the policy work?
"The plural of anecdote is misinformation" - Dr. Jonathan Stea Did a policy work? Voters are in the mood for radical policies. Radical...
hbsingh
Nov 15, 20243 min read
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Competing narratives
"Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives" - Jacqui Stedmon What are narratives? In most situations there is...
hbsingh
Sep 27, 20245 min read
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What is the "far right"?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall Increasingly we are hearing of...
hbsingh
Jul 3, 20244 min read
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What is democracy good for?
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried' - Winston...
hbsingh
Jun 29, 20245 min read
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Why you should vote
"Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world."- Sharon Salzberg This year 2024, has...
hbsingh
Jun 23, 20244 min read
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Public square 2.0
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." What would a modern public square look like?...
hbsingh
May 30, 20246 min read
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Democracy and the public square
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." - John Adams Imagine the cacophony of information that is...
hbsingh
May 19, 20243 min read
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Why tech chose misinformation
"The challenge is that the internet has created a place where misinformation just flourishes. We have to think about these systems more...
hbsingh
May 3, 20247 min read
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Free speech and its limits
Free speech has its limits. We need to work out what they should be. Freedom of speech is venerated by us as an essential right within a...
hbsingh
Apr 27, 20245 min read
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How do you switch off?
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamont There are at least two problems with...
hbsingh
Apr 6, 20245 min read
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Non-consensus investing
If there is one thing you take away from today's blog, it should be that to beat the market you need to understand the consensus and then...
hbsingh
Jan 29, 20246 min read
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