Michael Fabiano does a Master Class at the Royal College
Yesterday afternoon GodDaughter2 arranged for me to be in the audience (which was mostly singing students like her) of a master class presided over by American operatic tenor Michael Fabiano, a totally...
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A twentieth century bank robber gets a nagging from the cashier he is robbing
I still get cheques through the post, and then I insert these cheques into my bank account by going physically to my local physical branch of my unlocal bank and by handing the cheques over to a...
View ArticleTim Harford at Think 2018
Here. Video, lasting just over twenty minutes. Just watched it. Good. Particularly interested by what he says about how, without cheap paper, the revolutionary changes ushered in by the printing press...
View ArticleMcDonald’s in the sky
Nice Twitter exchange about how Ryanair provides a leg-up for young airline pilots. Tom Chivers: Saw the pilot of the Ryanair flight I’m on and honestly if I worked in a bar I would have IDed him My...
View ArticleAdams versus Kaepernick
I enjoyed this Twitterxchange. here. Colin Kaepernick: Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. Scott Adams: I’m pro-Kaepernick (for his effective protest on a real issue) but...
View ArticleTattoos should actually make your more employable …
Like: Tattoos should actually make you more employable because it shows you can sit in place for hours while tiny needles are jammed into your skin and that’s what every corporate meeting I’ve ever...
View ArticleThe publicness of private life
I seem to recall posting something here, once upon a time, about the foolishness of trying to look like a goody goody on the internet. Yes. Well Ryan Healy (guesting at the Brazen Careerist) seems to...
View ArticleWhen the only choice is between different risks
Alice Smith: The opposite of risk isn’t safety. The opposite of risk is another type of risk. I don’t think “opposite” is quite the right word here. The truth is more that sometimes there’s a choice...
View ArticleThoughts concerning To-Do lists
I have an ongoing To-Do list, consisting of a list of thoughts, in no particular order, just as they come to me, of subjects for postings that I might do here. One of the things that ought to be on my...
View ArticleBeware of all enterprises that require new clothes
Michael Jennings said this, five years ago. I believe he now has a new job.
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