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Can these Brits build a city?
Watch the full podcast about Forest City with project co-founders @isnit0 and @shivmalik
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James Newport
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James Newport
@NwprtNarrative
Co-founder of LFG. Building an EdTech - Praxis. MSc Decision Science. Former HMT policy advisor. Qualified Building Surveyor… My life makes little sense.
London Katılım Şubat 2022
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The British Government is a complicated beast. Dozens of departments, hundreds of public bodies, more corporations than one can count...
Such is its complexity that there isn't an org chart for it.
Well, there wasn't...
Introducing ⚙️Machinery of Government⚙️
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@lukas_ohl @Aria_Babu Brave or foolish - the line is faint haha.
It’s obviously not right for everyone but I think if people have it as a hard block on having children then they are over weighting the risks and under weighting the benefits of having mini-yous.
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@NwprtNarrative @Aria_Babu You’re a braver man than me - I took the more stable option when I had my children. I imagine most people are the same.
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Over half of childless, 32 year old men with degrees say they don't feel ready to have children.
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@lukas_ohl @Aria_Babu No doubt factors can help, but rarely are they a blocker. 12 months after having my first son I left my very stable job at HMT to start a business.
13 months after my second son I left another stable contract role I had to launch LFG and some other projects I wanted to do.
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@NwprtNarrative @Aria_Babu There are certain material factors which help though. Having a stable job and stable housing are the big ones.
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Taking this at face value - these are the types of traits that should be cultivated, developed, and applied in our schools and colleges
But no, better to make sure the next generation can regurgitate what was said in ‘The Canterbury Tales’ to a lesser standard than a basic LLM
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Startup Archive@StartupArchive_
Marc Andreessen on the 5 personality traits of an innovator “When you’re talking about real innovators—people who actually do really creative, breakthrough work—I think you’re talking about a couple things:” 1. Very high in trait openness. “Just flat-out open to new ideas… And the nature of trait openness means you’re not just open to new ideas in one category—you’re open to many different kinds of new ideas… But of course, just being open is not sufficient because if you’re just open, you could just be curious and explore and spend your entire life reading, talking to people, but never actually create something.” 2. High level of conscientiousness. “You need somebody who’s really willing to apply themselves—typically over a period of many years to accomplish something great… For most of these people, it’s years and years of applied effort. You need somebody with an extreme willingness to basically defer gratification… Of course, this is why there aren’t many of these people—there aren’t many people who are high in openness and high in conscientiousness because to a certain extent, they’re opposed traits.” 3. High in disagreeableness. “If they’re not ornery, they’ll be talked out of their ideas… Because the reaction most people have to new ideas is ‘Oh, that’s dumb.’ So, somebody who’s too agreeable will be easily dissuaded to not pull on the thread anymore.” 4. High IQ. “They just need to be really smart because it’s hard to innovate in any category if you can’t synthesize large amounts of information quickly.” 5. Relatively low neuroticism. “If they’re too neurotic, they probably can’t handle the stress.” Video source: @hubermanlab (2023)
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@catherine_zq When someone makes a mistake, a good employer uses that as a learning opportunity.
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was he not the ‘let’s not build nuclear because it will take 10 years’ person?
Looking for Growth@lfg_uk
We are delighted to announce Nick Clegg as the new head of our Energy Policy Department. Nick has shown foresight and expertise in the energy sector for decades, with an unparalleled track record on energy security and nuclear power in particular. We look forward to working with Nick to secure Britain’s energy supply now, and in the years to come.
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Recycling smells like a scam.
When I was younger I used to laugh at how often my extended family would discuss bin collection annoyances.
However, as my grey hairs grow I too find myself complaining.
Now we have to separate even more of our waste, and face potential fines if we get it wrong. Despite there being sufficient evidence that we send items abroad to be “recycled” but they actually end up in foreign land fill or are just burnt for energy.
Surely the future isn’t us having to filter every item of our waste anyway? Why can’t the recycling plants manage this? That’s where the scale is and it completely avoids the understandable event where someone incorrectly places a piece of waste into a bag which apparently then contaminates the entire load.
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Thanks for joining us @simonfgmiller! It was a great discussion and an excellent insight into the sector!
Simon Miller@simonfgmiller
Thanks to @NwprtNarrative and @Bexwray for having me on the @lfg_uk podcast to talk about digital connectivity and how its positive impact on growth can be maximised by public policy.
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Failure of our school and college system.
Most children now spend 13 years in formal education. Yet are lost when they leave.
Our system is exam focused, crushes agency, and creates dependency.
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@IwanDoherty98 I agree if it was just mass, unspecified funding. But it seems that can be overcome quite easily by providing direct funding and having an agreement with individual schools.
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@NwprtNarrative Because no one firm can capture the full benefits of education and training therefore it becomes a first mover disadvantage (any firm that tries this will expend all the costs but its competitor may capture the rewards)
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It’s clear companies are not satisfied that students (graduates or otherwise) have the expertise they require.
Why isn’t the market solving this?
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@Power_Jen Absolutely. Not sure if it’s learned helplessness or a belief that on principle the Gov. should solve it.
It feels a big competitive advantage for firms that solve for it (and arguably Rolls Royce etc. are examples of that).
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@NwprtNarrative I have often wondered this. Business moans about it and lobbies govt to do it. But would be much better off doing it themselves (either directly or indirectly.
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Planning permission shouldn’t be needed, unless there’s a shower or kitchen etc. which may suggest it’s a self contained living unit.
Building Control may ask you for a building notice for the connection of any plumbing to the existing mains/drainage system. But it’s a grey area as everything in an exempt building is exempt, but the drainage goes out of the exempt building and connects to non-exempt elements.
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@markfrancisio I actually have one! I prefer to work in the house because it isn't plumbed yet. I think I need planning permission to get plumbing set up, annoyingly.
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I’m not a “work from home” guy by any means. But I’ve done it a bit lately and it’s certainly nice to see my family during the day. I can see why it’s so popular.
But, and it’s a big but, my productivity is unquestionably lower. There’s just no substitute for the office.
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@thdxr @MPrinParr Seems like the most uncharitable way of interpreting what he said.
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"why isn't everyone more impressed with me"
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
🚨 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “We are so close to these models reaching the level of human intelligence, and yet there doesn't seem to be a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen … There hasn't been a public awareness of the risks.”
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The interview at 1 minute has me in stitches. Leading questions with a student who just keeps saying “I don’t know”.
Chris Philp MP@CPhilpOfficial
I heard reports of second-tier universities from far-flung parts of the country claiming thousands of students - mainly from outside the UK - are studying in office buildings in London So I went to have a look - video below I’m concerned these international students using “London campuses” are using study to get a visa
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