On my way to the hotel in Seoul, I discover that the taxi driver’s son is a famous opera singer living in Italy. The driver opens YouTube and let me enjoy the baritone performance in La Traviata at 9am.
It would have been impossible a few years ago. We live in amazing times.
“A public intellectual’s greatest contribution to the marketplace of ideas is to point out when an emperor has no clothes.” – The Ideas Industry (Drezner)
Seriously, don’t. Your job is not to deliver at all costs. Your job is to be sure that your ideas reach as many people as possible and they are fully understood. > “Don’t believe that plain, clear writing is dumbing your ideas down” https://t.co/xSkIbEL0xi
Airport business lounges have become so crowded, so noisy, so dirty, and with such bad quality of food that the only reason to seat there rather than in a normal restaurant is to show your privilege. https://t.co/DoW27G9sPo