Stuart Patience
Literacy and education; teacher training; building effective organisations. Norwich, UK - Jakarta, Indonesia| Driverless Crocodile
Literacy and education; teacher training; building effective organisations. Norwich, UK - Jakarta, Indonesia| Driverless Crocodile
Only a tiny fraction of the world’s population will ever discover this book. And here you are reading it. What are the odds? Aren’t you lucky? David Elikwu – Sovereign I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of Sovereign, which comes out today. David describes it as ‘a guide to building a self-directed… Read More »Luck Magnet: David Elikwu’s ‘Sovereign’ is out now The post Luck Magnet: David Elikwu’s ‘Sovereign’ is out now appeared first on Driverless Crocodile.| Driverless Crocodile
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love. He naturally dreads, not only to be hated, but to be hateful; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of hatred. He desires, not… Read More »| Driverless Crocodile
Sarah Paine is a professor of History and Grand Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. This excellent lecture sheds a lot of light on strategy in the Pacific in WW2, and contains great illustrations of how worldview affects decision making and strategy. Recommended. This one’s next: See also: One Hundred Million Souls for the… Read More »| Driverless Crocodile
Other things are rarely equal. All things never are. What the ocean does: swell direction and height, wave interval, secondary swell, wind strength, tide (high or low, spring or neap), dawn or dusk, rain or shine, bake or freeze. The contours of the seabed and the beach: where the reef begins, where the sand’s shifted,… Read More »| Driverless Crocodile
Arendt wrote the prologue to The Human Condition not long after the successful launch of Sputnik raised the first realistic prospect of humanity taking its first steps off-planet, and in the shadow of threatening and perplexing developments in atomic and quantum physics (see her comments on the crisis of language in the sciences). It’s a… Read More »Hannah Arendt on science, language, politics and our future machine overlords The post Hannah Arendt on science, language, politics and our...| Driverless Crocodile
It would be no surprise to me if it came as no surprise to you that running a leaf blower for thirty minutes produces far less pollution than driving a Ford Raptor from Texas to Alaska. Or that an hour’s use of a leaf blower emits nowhere near as much carbon as driving a Toyota… Read More »Fact check: Comparing Leaf Blower Carbon Emissions with Pollution from Cars The post Fact check: Comparing Leaf Blower Carbon Emissions with Pollution from Cars appeared first on Driverless Crocodile.| Driverless Crocodile
See also: GK Chesterton on HG Wells and the function of an open mindFools’ Money (2): Counter ArgumentChesterton’s Fence (at Farnham Street)| Driverless Crocodile
Disclaimer: I’m an intermediate surfer. This post is for people a step or two behind me, so your mileage may vary – let me know what I’ve missed in the comments. I’m convinced that most surf coaching videos and websites spend way too much time talking about the pop up* and way too little time… Read More »Surfing: Why does it help to arch your back when paddling? (it isn’t for leverage) – Surf Lessons #8 The post Surfing: Why does it help to arch your back when paddling? (it is...| Driverless Crocodile
Here’s Stephenson, from his Substack: Speaking of the effects of technology on individuals and society as a whole, Marshall McLuhan wrote that every augmentation is also an amputation. I first heard that quote twenty years ago from a computer scientist at Stanford who was addressing a room full of colleagues—all highly educated, technically proficient, motivated… Read More »Neal Stephenson on augmentation as amputation The post Neal Stephenson on augmentation as amputation appeared fi...| Driverless Crocodile
