54/11

We come with no expectations - just a sharing a link or two  as reading generates more curiosity  ... 

404 Error: How to Prevent Tech Project Failures 


How do you know you've met a good tax accountant?
He has a loophole named after him.



Dennis Richardson: keeper of Canberra’s secrets
"The former chief of ASIO, ambassador to Washington and senior mandarin talks about China, Trump and Australia’s foreign policy." (The Saturday Paper)

Revealed: the biggest email mistake
"It’s probably the most common mistake people make in their emails, and it could be causing problems for everyone." (news.com.au)
 

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Anyone with an interest in curiosity, irony and information can become MEdia Dragon

~ Graffiti by Deep Blogger aka Bank$y

“People either love media dragon or they hate media dragon, or they don't really care.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

Why Banksy's Girl With Balloon painting could be worth more shredded than intact 

54/11 is a term exclusive to  super insider's insider ....

Tyler Cowen:

Does living in a communist regime make a person more concerned about immigration? This paper argues conceptually and demonstrates empirically that people’s attitudes toward immigration are affected by their country’s politico-economic legacy. Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment arising from the historic division of Germany into East and West, I show that former East Germans, because of their exposure to communism, are notably more likely to be very concerned about immigration than former West Germans. Opposite of what existing literature finds, higher educational attainment in East Germany actually increases concerns. Further, I find that the effect of living in East Germany is driven by former East Germans who were born during, and not before, the communist rule and that differences in attitudes persist even after Germany’s reunification. People’s trust in strangers and contact with foreigners represent two salient channels through which communism affects people’s preferences toward immigration.

That is from Matthew Karl at the Board of Governors

Via Cold river

By Martin Gurri, The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium* (due out November 13).  I am reading this splendid book for the first time.  It basically explains why Brexit and Trump won, and what will happen next.  Due to social media, we are disillusioned with our elites, and that will prove hard to reverse

One of the harshest verses in the Bible is Isaiah 1:15: “When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.” 

Whiskey Walk






Rhododendron ...

“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy
Banky (Girl with Baloon) to Man with Whiskey

via Yammer - Desiderata
An Ode to the Australian Public Servant

Ten public servants standing in a line,
one of them was downsized - then there were nine.

Nine public servants who must negotiate,
one joined the union - then there were eight.

Eight public servants thought they were in heaven,
'til one of them was redeployed - then there were seven.

Seven public servants, their jobs as safe as bricks,
but one was reclassified - then there were six.

Six public servants trying to survive,
one of them was privatised - then there were five.

Five public servants ready to give more,
but one golden handshake reduced them to four.

Four public servants full of loyalty,
their jobs were advertised - then there were three.

Three public servants under review,
one left on secondment - then there were two.

Two public servants coping on the run,
one went out on stress leave - then there was one.

The last public servant agreed to relocate,
replaced by 10 consultants at twice the hourly rate.

Public 'shaken, most anxious' over advances in technology
As the Australian Information and Privacy Commission confirmed it was informally investigating the Facebook hacking breach, a study across eight countries in the annual Brands in Motion report by US-based firm WE Communications, says Australians "have been shaken" by a slew of ongoing technology scandals and are now "some of the most anxious consumers in the world about the promise of unprecedented innovation".