I had a pain-free day yesterday. After the six previous days, that was blissful.<\/p>\n
That said, I am not pretending that the problem I have with a kidney stone no longer exists: I was painfully reminded when I woke up this morning that it still does. All I am saying is that, largely down to Jacqueline\u2019s careful management of my pain control, it was well managed yesterday and has already been contained this morning. There are also signs that Thursday\u2019s treatment was successful, at least in part, which is encouraging. This debacle may not be over as yet, but I\u2019m beginning to believe it will be, and that matters.<\/p>\n
The result was that my thinking was flowing again. Mid-morning, John Christensen and I were on the phone for some time asking essential, almost ontological, questions about what economics really is and, as a consequence, what wealth, income, money and much more really are. These might be the basis for future podcast discussions because we both think that economics is now so debased that we need to go back to basics and start again.<\/p>\n
This was a theme I already wanted to work on, and Jacqueline then riffed on that conversation, which she had overheard, to relate the issue around money to energy. Sher and I then debated that issue in ways that I, at least, found fascinating, and the result of these conversations, and my desire to explore economics from a different angle, is the experimental piece of writing on potential that I am posting this morning.<\/a><\/p>\n I am not sure that this piece, and some others I have been exploring that flow from it, are necessarily the right basis for that line of thinking, but whilst I was ill, I was reading Austin Kleon's latest book, Don\u2019t Call It Art<\/em>. I like his work and style, and his suggestion that, rather than worry about perfecting something, the purpose of thinking is to put ideas out into the ether and see what happens. That is what I am doing here.<\/p>\n Doing so, I stress that, whilst I wrote the piece in question, I should recognise what, in footballing parlance, would be called the assists from both John and, most particularly, Jacqueline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"