Engaged Reading Time: The Burning Platform Edition

Greetings from the end of the Revue world. This little newsletter that couldn’t is going away in its current form in less than a month, because the new Overlord of the Blue Bird, Elongated Mustalid, has decreed that it must be so. All the team behind Revue are already

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #86

Dear subscribers old and new, Blah blah sorry for no issues blah blah excuse blah blah enjoy the links. Adam Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically? This might be better entitled “The Undeath of the Author”. It’s a function of the context collapse that the internet facilitates, but

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #85

Here's some links. Don't read them all at once… The bullwhip effect: A beginner’s guide Want to understand the roots of the supply chain chaos that's having all sorts of unexpected side-effects? You need to understand the bullwhip effect… Apple’s astonishing MacBook Pro reverse ferret Apple finally reverses

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #84

Hello, there, It’s summer holiday time in the northern hemisphere, and for the first time in a couple of years, I've actually been on holiday. We've been camping in a coastal valley with no WiFi and the merest sniff of 3G connection (if you climb part the way up

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #83

Good Lord, how did it get to be Thursday already? Somebody must have stolen a day somewhere along the line… Tikki, links on! (And if you understand that reference, you're probably also the parent of a primary school age child.) Watching Doctor Who can be embarrassing, and here's why This

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #82

I'm off to the (COVID-secure) dentist in a few moments, but you? You're going to procrastinate over those morning tasks by reading or listening to what's below, aren't you…? 😉 Explaining the difference between net-zero and carbon neutrality "is a challenge" says The Carbon Trust This is the big discussion of

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #81

Hello, there, Another missive from my rather sporadic use of Revue, in part triggered by the news that Twitter may add a single click subscribe option to Revue newsletters in the near future, which I wrote about over on OM&HB. Here's what's caught my attention today. Worth your attention

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #80

Welcome to my other Twitter account. Given that Revue, which I use to create this newsletter, is now a Twitter property, I suspect that a lot of moribund newsletters (like this one) might suddenly lurch into renewed life. We'll see. It'll also be interesting to see how the two platforms

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #77

I doubt anyone noticed - but this is the missing issue of ERT. I genuinely can't remember why this issue ended up being skipped. But hey, let's enjoy those nicely-aged links. A good link is like a good whisky. It gets better with age, and should be enjoyed in a

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #79

Hello, there, Another random newsletter for you long-suffering subscribers. I've just finished running a new newsletter course, and it's rebirthed my enthusiasm for the medium. And so, literally the moment the course finished, I threw open my browser and got to work on this issue. As ever, these links are

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #78

Hello. I'm back. The last few months have been hard. Let us never discuss them again. We're still going to stay pretty much COVID-19 free here. Where we do touch on it, it'll be thinking forwards, not about the current  moment. We all need to stop doomscrolling for a while.

Engaged Reading Time - Issue #76

Happy May Day, everyone. Links ahoy! Just a reminder. This is my “interesting reading” newsletter - three stories, none of them about THAT virus. All the journalism/engagement stuff has moved. Remains of Bronze Age chieftain found in Lechlade, Gloucestershire An "unprecedented" discovery of an ancient burial — and one that