This is a must read for anyone looking to find their niche sharpen their writing. Three great examples on 'Obsession', 'Vulnerability' & 'Curiosity' ... brilliant work from @harrisonmoore.bsky.social at The New Workday 🎸
'I have noticed when I was younger that a lot of old men in the field couldn’t understand new ideas very well.. I’m an old man now, and these are new ideas, and they look crazy to me, and they look like they’re on the wrong track.' -Richard Feynman, discussing his opinion of string theory in 1987
Great article! Love the weekend FT. Thanks also for the embedded pointer to Blackwing pencils :)
Great dispatch from the front lines of the culture wars: 'anti-cancel culture' universities: 'If you're going to have institutions that are committed to the discovery, transmission and preservation of knowledge, their operating system has to be a liberal one.' The game is on.
For this week's FT Mag cover I visited America's new free-speech-first colleges: UATX, Ralston and the Peterson Academy. Featuring Jordan Peterson's carnivore daughter, GB News boss Paul Marshall, Clarence Thomas pal Harlan Crow and me trying to scale a mountain in a mini skirt 🫠 on.ft.com/3QwvGgX
[FREE TO READ] Why Harlan Crow, Paul Marshall and others are funding schools affiliated with Bari Weiss and Jordan Peterson
New issue of the Idler magazine out now featuring my considered thoughts on Michel de Montaigne, sporting sheds, and Emily Cockayne's excellent new book Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters. Subscribe today!