Just in case anyone is not aware, these are my priorities for the next few days:
I need time to birdwatch, walk, sit over a coffee, and think.
There will be videos and blogs. But please understand that moderation will be slow. And if saying something could wait, might it do so?
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Dear Richard.
You need to stop thinking and just enjoy what you are doing in that moment – the now . The birds, the coffee, your company, the nature around you. Just try it. It will all still be there when you have had a rest.
So, I’ll see you on Monday. Or Tuesday even? Enjoy.
Hang in there. An AI tool for moderating comments is less than a year away according to one of my friends in the business. ChatGPT would need your training data though.
Thinking is a very underated and underutilised skill! Enjoy your weekend.
Very wise! Relax and enjoy the weekend.
Enjoy. Hope the coffee is good (and maybe a slice of cake as well) and the R&R beneficial.
Craig
P.S. Hope you get some decent pictures especially of a sunrise and/or sunset :-
The camera is here.
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything,” (Shakespeare ‘As You Like It’).
Richard – enjoy, relax and refresh – you deserve it.
🙂
You more than deserve a break: your output is phenomenal. Almost superhuman tbh.
Take it easy, look after yourself and enjoy being in the slow lane.
Come back when you’re ready.
I can wait, knowing that quality is your trademark and that you need time to keep it up.
Thank you for your work, your PRECIOUS work.
Thanks
Havin coffee between spectacular birdwatching right now
No explanations needed. Enjoy the down time.
Richard – I’ll send you an email with a copy of the graphic of the Four Fold Practice and the first step is Host Yourself.
Richard, Just a suggestion. Could you ease your workload by hosting guest posts? Perhaps from some of your regular commentators or some of the handful of rational economists? Not a free-for-all, you would make specific invitations. And you could do a subsequent post explaining how the guest was talking nonsense.
I think the risk is over posting.
And I also think blogs only really work when they are a continuing wave of consciousness. Guest posts would create a magazine. I am not sure that would work, or at least it would be very different. And to be candid, writing content is just about the easiest part of my job.
Following my last comment…. With a little help from ChatGPT…. My thoughts are just run this blog Monday to Friday!
Why? What do I do with my weekend ideas?
Go for it Richard and recharge those batteries
And if you get the chance, do go to the Wildlife Photography exhibition at the Natural History Museum
Richard
So much for Tuesday. Looking for something to do (joke!)?
Given the results of your health regime, I think you need to update you blog picture dear chap to Murphy: Version 0.2 that we see in your YourTube output? After birding and coffee of course.
Yes
Can I suggest an alternative to the household analogy : Why not explore the farming analogy?
Starmer should be nurturing the soil, developing the skills of his workers, incentivising effort, investing in equipment,
Planning the right crops at the right time in the right circumstances. Focussing on future harvests not the words of the bank manager. Fostering markets and innovative products. Alive to market opportunities not a slave to onerous contracts. Understanding the seasons and climate changes. Co-operating with co-producers and suppliers. Understanding and responding to strategic threats.
I’ve always loved Peter Sellers in “being there” . Perhaps its a role for your old age…
Farmers have always had a healthy relationship to debt- why not the nation?
Sorry, but you have a view of farming I don’t share. I see mainstream neoliberalism.