"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
— Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister
RIP boiled water.
You will be mist.
No such thing as a quick fix when it comes to culture
APS not a Lego set for 'disorienting' restructures, Parkinson warns
“Individuals expect honesty to be less pleasant and less socially connecting than it is.”
How Huawei’s ‘wolf culture’ helped it grow, and got it into trouble
As the Chinese tech giant expanded around the globe, its employees were urged on by a culture that celebrated daring feats in pursuit of new business.
New York Magazine list of the 100 best pens
NSW Minister Pru Goward to quit politics
Pru Goward is the second minister to quit the Berejiklian government in the lead up to the March election.
Embedding Artists In The Municipal Bureaucracy
This
past summer, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission began a program
that assigns artists-in-residence to work in county government agencies
(to start with, the Registrar-Recorder’s Office and the county library
system). Pauline Kanako Kamiyama writes about what she and LACAC learned
from the programs’s preparation and launch. (For example, “‘Trust the
artist-driven process’ does not easily translate to non-arts staff nor
governmental management styles.”) — Americans for the Arts'You've been pinged': Grindr scammer jailed for extortion, impersonating a police officer
Using The Arts To Move Young Offenders Out Of Jail And In Restorative Justice Programs
Cecilia Olusola Tribble of metro Nashville’s Office of Arts and Culture writes about the Restorative Justice + the Arts program, which trains artists to teach and work with inmates at a Nashville juvenile detention center. — Americans for the ArtsSelwa Anthony has been ordered to pay Ms Morton $514,558 plus interest after Justice Julie Ward on Monday concluded the author's cross-claim should be partly upheld.
Funniest Leadership Speech ever!
MAYBE THEY’RE NOT AS SMART OR BENEVOLENT AS THEY THINK OR CLAIM: The Smart Technocats And Benevolent Dictators Always Fail.
Have you heard of Bill Easterly? He is an economics professor at NYU. He wrote a book, The Tyranny of Experts. I’d suggest that you read it. It seems as though everyone is quoting from Hillbilly Elegy these days and I think I’d rather see them pick up the ethos of this book and put it into practice.
Top down solutions to big problems don’t work. In fact, when it comes to stamping out poverty, the top down solution becomes an excuse for technocrats, bureaucrats, the smart people, the elites and “benevolent dictators” to keep trampling upon the poor all the while making themselves feel good and important. They enrich themselves as well.
Easterly prefers free markets.
“THE HILLS ARE ALIVE…WITH THE SOUND OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
In Aria Technology Ltd v R & C Commrs
[2018] BTC 511, the Upper Tribunal (UT) dismissed an application by the
taxpayer company to prevent a journalist from obtaining copies of appeal
documents because the company had not demonstrated that it would be unfair or
cause harm to any person to report the outcome of the proceedings.
Bulk surveillance is always bad, say human rightsorgs appealing against top Euro court
Liberty and pals seek to
prove intrusive spy powers can never be justified
Leaders’ advice for boosting employee productivity
Five thought leaders offer tips to help overcome obstacles to raising productivity
Rifat Azam (Radzyner) & Orly Mazur (SMU), Cloudy with a Chance of Taxation, 21 Fla. Tax Rev. ___ (2018):
The
growth of the digital economy, and, in particular, cloud computing, has
put a significant strain on sales taxation and other consumption tax
systems. The borderless, anonymous, and digital nature of cloud
computing raises questions about the paradigm used to determine the
character of the transaction and the location where consumption, and
therefore, taxation occurs. From an American perspective, the effective
resolution of these issues continues to grow in importance in light of
the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair and
the growing number of U.S. businesses transacting overseas in
jurisdictions that impose value-added taxes (VATs).
Above the Law, Is Getting A Tax LL.M. A Good Idea?:
Many
law students and even some experienced lawyers probably at one point
considered getting an LL.M., a post-J.D. degree known as the Master of
Laws. However, an informal acronym for the LL.M. is “Lawyers Losing Money.” This
is primarily because the vast majority of LL.M.s do not provide better
career outcomes to those who did not do well in law school while piling
on an additional year of law school debt. Also, most LL.M. courses can
be taken as a J.D. law student and experienced practitioners can learn
the material in cheaper CLE presentations or from treatises and practice
guides. Some LL.M. programs are so dubious that they are the butt end
of jokes.
The
one exception is the Tax LL.M. This is probably because the degree is
very compatible since tax laws interact with just about every other law
at some level. Also, tax laws constantly change, sometimes for the
better, usually for the worse, so people think that there will always be
work for tax lawyers. Finally, some firms highly recommend or even
require a Tax LL.M. for their tax positions.
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China Is Now the Greatest Threat to Americans’ Privacy Bloomberg
Google says it won’t sell face recognition for now—but it will be hard to slow its use MIT Technology Review
British Security Service Infiltration, the Integrity Initiative and the Institute for Statecraft 456 Craig Murray
