The archive
Every morning one random subscriber writes to everyone on the list. These are the ones their writers chose to share. Read a few to get a feel for it, or for an idea of what you'd say.
- Are we having fun? I was at a dinner last night where someone mentioned, quite seriously, that they had an interview coming up. Next thing, the interview had been contorted into something really quite ridiculous and the whole table was…
- Book recommendations please Please reply with your best book recommendations. After the soapbox the other day I’m inspired to read more and more broadly. I’d like to use this opportunity to request your best book recommendation(s). Not necessarily…
- The Department for Dating. What should have been in this week’s budget. From April 2027, every single adult in Britain will receive a £252 dating allowance, paid monthly into a government app. The policy follows concern that married couples can save up to £252 a year through Marriage…
- # Would you think any less of this email? Would you think any less of this email if you knew AI helped me write it? Writing is a form of thinking, and thinking is how we make sense of the world. The more we learn, and the more we exchange that knowledge with…
- The Floor Underneath: Universal Basic Income Imagine waking up on the first of the month knowing that, no matter what happens to your company, your industry, or your health, a non-negotiable floor exists beneath your feet. That is the core promise of Universal…
- Monday Mullings: The World Is Getting Better, The UK Is Not, Mattresses, Kidney Stones There are many moments when I wish to have a metaphorical soapbox and broadcast precisely what I am seeing or thinking. Thankfully, I have no such reach nor audience. Having recently, by chance, visited Speaker's Corner…
- Bring back 4 TV channels When I was growing up we had 4 channels on TV and maybe 6 newspapers to choose from at the corner shop. I want to use this soapbox as a rant in favour of bringing that back. Look at some of the biggest problems in the…
- I'm scared of AI... Dear Soapboxers, AI is scaring me, and not for the reason you think. Yes, the threat of increasing hacks that could melt down the global economy or trigger nuclear Armageddon is terrifying...but I can't do sh*t about…
- The Year of the Fire Horse I went back home recently and found myself enjoying an evening at a garden bar with three of my best friends from high school. Looking around the table, I was cuddled up in the feelings of fuzziness I get even just by…
- Influencer soup I was catching up with a friend next to a rooftop pool in London on a sweltering afternoon. The water resembled an influencer soup; dozens of people posing in the sun, taking hundreds of selfies currently clogging up…
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