Interesting from Stephanie Kelton re: reducing inflation via boosting supply & the potential to overstate the role of central banks. On raising rates: “you’re trying to fight the cost of living crisis by raising the cost of living for millions of people.” ft.com/content/5a7297…

A third of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, but 90% of them fail. To succeed replay large, vague goals like exercise more with specific goals like exercise for 15 minutes more. Small concrete goals make it easier to assess **marginal** costs and benefits .

And all the next day Toad played music for his seeds.

Really honoured to have been part of this BBC File on 4 documentary exploring the adult industry and disability, and the line between empowerment and exploitation. Please tune in bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

This person wins Halloween 🙌🏽

(I retweeted this earlier and it disappeared so here it is again.)

Ok this person wins Halloween.

Excited to have won a gold award at the Signal Awards with @vespucci for The Cost of Happiness, exploring Tony Hsieh's $350m investment into Downtown Las Vegas and the tech industry's interest in community, meaning and purpose.

OMG, this is such an amazing pick. Claudia is an economic powerhouse, a force of nature, and an extraordinary historian. Her research—and this prize—dragged issues like the gender wage gap, family formation & work-life balance from the backwaters of econ to be front and center.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya for the BBC. Having grown up in in a slum near Lagos, he now also teaches kids from underserved communities via his organization CHESS IN SLUMS AFRICA bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Interviewed the inspirational and also friendly Coss Marte on his life story, from prison for selling drugs to running businesses where he employs formerly incarcerated individuals CONBODY CONBUDNY bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

This generous review of my Iliad translation by Rowan Williams gets extra points from me bc it doesn't mention my gender at all, or get into fake controversies even to dismiss them. Instead, it takes the poem and the work of translation seriously.

Enjoying this fascinating and very fun BBC Radio 4
podcast on Banksy. The main guest Steph Warren worked for him and she has great insights, also as a gallerist herself. A must listen. And so Bristol! spotify.link/QoTIS7Vm5Cb

My latest BBC documentary: More people under 40 are identifying as 'spiritual but not religious'. But where do you then turn to answer fundamental life questions? I explore the work of Nearness who help people with exactly this.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Teen Vogue to claims that O'Connor ruined her career with her SNL action, she scoffed in a 2021 interview, 'I f*cked up the house in Antigua that the record company dudes wanted to buy. I f*cked up their career, not mine.' Teen Vogue
teenvogue.com/story/sinead-o…

“I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career,” she writes, “and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.”

Recall reading this and loving how Sinead knew she won. Honest, unapologetic, brave and with heart, what a way to live.

nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…

These are the Atheist Street Pirates: US activists who track and remove illegal religious signs from public property.

Nastaran Tavakoli-Far joins a Los Angeles crew to find out more

bbc.in/43FbexI

In addition, these books all look the same…

A must listen: new BBC Radio 4 podcast on the sex scandals that brought down some of K-Pop's biggest stars. Brilliant reporting by Chloe Hadjimatheou exploring the important and complicated nuances and cultural forces. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

We won an award at the Tribeca festival! For our Teamistry podcast on Concorde! With Pacific Content Atlassian

Cheers to my friend Nastaran Tavakoli-Far, whose podcast on the history of the Concorde just won an award for best audio storytelling at the Tribeca X festival. Stream it here: atlassian.com/blog/podcast/t…