Tony Lashley

"The digging is the least thing of all." -- John Frank Stevens

The majority theory is that the ceiling's main frescoes were applied and painted in phases, with the scaffolding each time dismantled and moved to another part of the room.

One of those albums that lived up the hype after a decade plus hiatus. Always good to learn how these kinds of people think.

Principle one: ‘Turn every goddamned page’

Principle two: ‘The facts alone aren’t enough’

Principle three: ‘Truth takes time’

Yet unbelievably, Caro is not a slow writer by nature. He admits how when he wrote copy in the newsroom, it was a pace judged “astonishing” by his colleagues. No, Robert Caro is actually a slow writer by choice. Before starting... See more

The point is that longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people outside of elite universities and Silicon Valley have ever heard about. I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite p... See more